I’m constantly trying to optimize my sleep. Why you ask? So I have can as many waking hours of the day to do the things I love and be productive while maintaining a high energy level and healthy lifestyle : ) I compiled some of my learnings into a slideshare presentation called Sleep Hacking: How [...]
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BD 101: A Lesson Learned About Commitment
About 2 weeks ago, I realized I made a huge business development mistake that could have easily been avoided. Rewind to mid-December: I connected with an ideal prospect via a cold call that told me to reach back out in the new year. Immediately following the call I made an annotation to call them back [...]
What 100 Posts Has Taught Me About Blogging: Part 2
This post is the 2nd part of series that outlines things I’ve learned post 100 notches on my blogging belt. Pun, anyone? The first post provided insight into what I’ve learned about continuity and how to avoid heading to the 19th hole after 4 posts. Here I’ll outline the process I’ve arrived at and why [...]
Choice
I LOVE trying new things and am addicted to the upside that accompanies the unknown. But when faced with too many choices, my adventurous aspirations relinquish and I find myself retreating to familiarity. I noticed this multiple instances over the past week: Dinner at Gracefully – The market at my house has 30+ different sandwich [...]
Reflections: 2 Months of Carrying A Moleskin
Its been just over 2 months since I’ve started carrying a small moleskin notebook everywhere I go. I have it on me at all times to record ideas, thoughts/themes I want to remember, and action items. This practice has been profoundly enriching and I’m proud to say I’ve devoured 2 1/2 full books over this time [...]
This Country Needs More Leaders Like This
Although I like to primarily harbor content I created on this blog, its important to expose this to as many people as possible. This country needs more leaders like this. Please watch.
Digital Real Estate and Creating Personality Within Products
Value creation from real estate is not limited to property in the offline world. It exists across web platforms we interact with on a daily basis. The obvious opportunities exist anywhere we can create content. From short bursts to long-form writing, tangible value is created atop digital real-estate. Each piece of online content serves [...]
The Subscription Commerce War Chest Challenge
The heart-warming response and support from friends yesterday after opening the kimono on a sacred part of my life was pretty awesome. I’m really grateful to be surrounded by such a supportive ecosystem. However, I couldn’t help but wonder about the conversion rate. That is, how many people would actually read that article and take [...]
Elegance: An Adjective Fit For More than British Accents
Two days ago, I was re-reading “Whose Got Your Back” and was struck Peter Gruber’s definition of elegance: Elegance is the art of exerting the minimum amount of effort for the maximum effect, the maximum amount of power and achievement in our life. When I signed up for Hipster today I tweeted about how beautiful [...]
The Salesman in My Head
Last night I read a post about the difference between pain and discomfort on Jason Shen’s blog. The paragraph and highlighted sentence below particularly resonated with me as I turned off the light following my google reader ritual: Only for the first night did I think I would have trouble getting up at 5am for [...]
Gmail Catches My Mistakes
I was just writing an email and hastily cc’d the wrong person. Gmail uses machine learning to understand my common behavior and alerts when they think I might have made a mistake. Its awesome 1. Auto-populate my contacts (which are automated via frequency) 2. Recognizes my mistake 3. Enabled me to easily correct my mistake with one click [...]
Building Online Communities, Content, and Purchasing Decisions
A loyal online community is one of the hardest assets to cultivate, but often one of the most valuable. Unlike one-off click-throughs, members of a community engage in an on-going relationship. Depending on the context, their value comes through in the form of support, input, awareness, data, SEO, repeat purchases…the list goes on. Consistently publishing [...]
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