Hint: Willy Wonka knew it all along. “Oh, you can’t get out backwards. You gotta go forwards to go back. Better press on.”
Read moreTurns Out That Everything is Really Only a Two-Step Process
An experiment in oversimplification (just to see what happens). When I left my office job almost two years ago, it was an adjustment
Read more3 Important Business Lessons I Learned From Playing Rec League Basketball
Note: I may or may not have pulled a hammy just writing this. It’s been a few years, but I used to really
Read moreMy HS Freshman Basketball Team Won Only One Game, But It Was Everything.
We were short, but at least we were slow. I recently ran into one of my oldest friends at a 4th of July party
Read moreAn Illustrated Look at What I Learned From Getting Lost On a Mountain in a Snowstorm
I was 21, living in Boston, and thinking things all the way through wasn’t really my thing. A few of us decided to
Read moreHow to Never Make a Bad Decision Ever Again
One of many things I learned from being an awful, awful neighbor. My deepest apologies to anyone who lived in Allston, Massachusetts from
Read more4 Things Being a Drummer Taught Me About Starting a Business
Being a musician isn’t like being an entrepreneur, it is being an entrepreneur. I am not sure exactly when it was when I
Read moreCan a Business Have a Soul?
I admit that I don’t know what a soul is, but I know one when I see one. Ok, so my wife is
Read more3 Things I Learned From Watching My Father Perform Surgery
(Besides the fact that there was no way I was going to become a surgeon.) In 1998, my father was approaching the sunsetting
Read morePatience, Branding, and My Hard-to-Pronounce Name
Don’t ask how it’s spelled, either. It won’t help. Three syllables. That’s it. My first name and my last name is three syllables.
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