How important is reputation? I have been having an internal debate about this since a conversation a few days with a guy I do some work with. There was a comment in the midst of the conversation wherein it was said that a “reputation was on the line.” I thought about that for a while […]
Tag Archives: life
Bad Words
This phrase has always bothered me. Lots of kids go around saying “Oooh, you said a bad word.” What ignorant parent teaches their kids to say these things? Certainly some words are more incendiary than others ( like this, or this). I have arrived at the conclusion that words are either appropriate at a given […]
Permanent Solutions to Temporary Problems
I was reading re-reading The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry today and a section of text jumped out at me that had not before. There is a section where Mr. Henry talks about a spider crawling out of his couch while he was working, and his subsequent overreaction to it. After killing the spider, he […]
My Favorite Tools, Part 1
A lot of people ask me what tools I use for particular parts of my work. Here is a list of tools I use every day to help bring sanity to my work: Evernote – I have been using Evernote for about a month and a half now. I pay attention to Michael Hyatt, and […]
Lady Gaga and the Myth of Accidental Stardom
I am (obviously) not in show business or music, and so there are times when I tend to think that people that are very famous have stumbled into it. They just happened to be doing something when the right person just happened to be watching and that just happened to turn them into stars. I […]
I Don’t Care About the NFL
There was a time when I watched a ton of football, both college and pro. It was not uncommon for me to spend most of the day Sunday watching the NFL, then continue on to Monday night. Last year I watched almost no NFL, and some amount of college. What has become apparent over the […]
What Matters
Every now and again you get a swift kick in the side of the head about what matters. I have had a running gun battle with a guy at one of my clients for the last six months or more. The battles have been ideological, practical, theoretical, and every other kind of cal. We just […]
Surviving and Thriving
When we moved into our house, we found a great builder here in Raleigh to do some work on our house. He was (and is) a true craftsman. The work he did was first rate, and at the time he had all the work he could do. Then 2008 hit. I just saw him again […]
Business 101
If you have kids, you are no doubt familiar with the refrain of “I really want to buy X” or “I need a way to make more money so I can do Y.” I hear it a good bit in my house, and recently have decided that it’s time to teach my kids some lessons […]
The Wind
I was watching Voyage of the Dawn Treader last weekend. There are a series of scenes while the crew are on the way to Dragon Island where they are in an incredible storm, and then in complete calm. The scenes from the storm are intense: everyone on board is just trying to hang on and stay […]