This blog post is a bit different than my typical SaaS, Leadership, and technology topics. I’ll continue writing on those topics but I have a heart for non-profits and the work they do. If you’re working with a non-profit and I’d be honored to hear your story and what they’re all about. Recently I assisted … Continue reading Increasing The Efficiency of Your Not-for-profit
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Themes of Life
Do you listen to the themes playing around you? I didn’t. I’ve had an eventful few months in my personal and professional life recently. A repeating theme has been having the right priorities in place. It’s easy to have the right priorities written down, it’s another to live them out. My wife kept telling me … Continue reading Themes of Life
Learning From Weakness
You don’t learn life lessons from the happiest place on earth, you learn them through the tribulations and pains we all go through. Today, we drove through Sacramento heading to Fresno (yes, it’s hot) and it’s been about a year since we last did traveled to Fresno. Except last time we got rear ended by … Continue reading Learning From Weakness
Build Versus Buy
A lot of people think, “oh, I can just build that. I don’t need to pay someone else an ongoing fee.” But that’s the wrong thinking for two reasons. It’s not like I need a dining table to put food on and I can either build it or buy it. That’s a one time purchase. … Continue reading Build Versus Buy
Bored by Simple. Infatuated by Complexity
Humanity’s perception: Complexity > Simplicity We are bored with the known; we seek to expand. We think there must be more than what is. We create mountains out of mole hills. Instead of targeting simple, we complicate. We overarchitect. We see a giant “to do” list in order to accomplish even the smallest of tasks. … Continue reading Bored by Simple. Infatuated by Complexity
Introducing Inefficiencies
Have you ever thought of putting any inefficiencies into your schedule? You know, ways of slowing yourself down or making yourself slightly less productive? Of course you haven’t. That’s ridiculous! Why would we want to be less productive? The funny thing is we do this all the time. If you have an Apple Watch, that … Continue reading Introducing Inefficiencies
I Took Off A Month
No, I didn’t not work for a month — that’d be silly. I was off social media for a month. Why? Read on. During this time many sensations and emotions came to: “Oh man, this is hilarious. I want to share this with…oh, never mind” “I want to share this funny experience…oh…” “How is so-and-so doing…?” (I … Continue reading I Took Off A Month
