Tech Skills For The Modern Entrepreneur

A recent trend in the world of outdoor adventuring is the idea of Ultralight Backpacking. It's the art of ventur [read more...]

Workflow 1 The Past

It used to be (in what some might be tempted to call the Good 'Ol Days) that all it took to start developing for the web was an index.html file. Then we started getting fa [read more...]

Blog Tech 2

Last time we covered blog tech (in Blog Tech pt. 1), we outlined how to use Jekyll to create a blog by 'baking' static files f [read more...]

Learn To Be Useful

An English Lit teacher of mine once told me that every great essay started with a contentious statement. So here goes mine: Thomas the Tank Engine is the coolest, most inspirational chi [read more...]

On Trust

Trust is tricky. Whether it's an organization, an individual, or an abstract system, trust is usually seen as something that's valuable, but difficult to measure. As individuals, we often s [read more...]

Mistakes Of Ambition

It's fitting that the post that I finish on the Ides of March happens to be about decision-making, leadership, and how to make mistakes. Please do not assume that I'm advocating for the kin [read more...]

Barleycakes And Water And Weightlifting

Happiness is a tricky thing to pin down. Some folks will tell you happiness happens at the extremes, in moments of indulgence. Some folks will say that hedonism is fleeting, and that real happiness [read more...]

Specialization Is For Insects

One of my favorite authors of all time is, believe it or not, the source for one of my favorite quotes of all time. It's something of a life motto for me by this point, and any self-described s [read more...]

But Their Overhead Was Low

There are probably too many TED talks on this page, but here's another one anyway. T [read more...]

Blog Tech 1

While most of my posts will deal with more abstract "builds" (businesses, processes, campaigns), this one is more of a how-to on building a blog like this one. This blog is not a WordPres [read more...]

Starting From Scratch

They say that breaking up is hard to do, but it's not nearly as difficult as getting something started in the first place. Breakups usually have some momentum behind them already. Some are even [read more...]

Getting Started

While there's quite a lot to say about the process of getting started (in big things or little things in life... more thoughts on that in a later post), this post is more about what I hope to a [read more...]