There’s a skill I’ve referred to casually in a few posts but I never stopped to explain what I mean. It’s more of an intuitive skill but it can be learned, and I’m going to break it down for you. It’s a verb I borrowed from baseball, where it’s a very specialized skill, but if we think of it in a…

We’re back in action, baby, and there’s LOTS of good stuff comin’ your way. Mostly useful blog posts and resources that are going to blow your mind, and possibly vodka. I mean, since I’m actually ranked on Klout as an influencer of entrepreneurship, business and VODKA (I can’t make this up), then I…

Richard Feynman, professor and Nobel-prize winning physicist purportedly only had an IQ of 125 . Smart, but hardly in the rarefied spectrum we normally consider for genius. This trivia is usually brought up to show the ridiculousness of IQ testing. If an obvious genius doesn’t qualify for Mensa, how…

Early in my business I remember going months without making any increase in revenue. Despite this, I was exhausted from trying to keep up with my business. I was working hard, but getting no results. Eventually I learned a distinction that changed how I viewed work. Now my business grows faster,…

Some terrible things happened at the end of last week. Chief among them in the news were two events, each apparently caused by a single troubled individual. On Friday morning in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik bombed a building in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on Otoya Island. According to the…

In chemistry, there’s the idea of an activation cost. This is the threshold of energy you need to surpass to start a chemical reaction. Dynamite, for example, contains a lot of energy. But unless a spark or lit fuse pays the activation cost it won’t explode. Life also has activation costs. There are…

‘It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.’ ~Bertrand Russell Post written by Leo Babauta . What do you do if you can’t let go of something you own? How do you deal with the “just in case” syndrome , or the “it has meaning”…

You may have just read the news that Airbnb raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, but what you may not know is what happened before all of that. When I read that story, I wasn’t too surprised having interviewed Brian Chesky and seeing how his mind works in Startups Open Sourced. You may not…

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My birthday is today, and my birthday always makes me feel nostalgic, so here’s a somewhat sentimental post…. Last week, I spent a lot of time alphabetizing my CD collection (well, what’s left of it after I got rid of thousands of CDs a few years back) I had them all boxed up in my basement, and I…

Photo by r.f.m II Well, it happens sometimes. I find myself in a lousy mood. Hard to say where it started, but it certainly has something to do with not getting much sleep Saturday night. I had big plans for Sunday, but the day was compromised by my zombie state. I think my IQ shrunk about thirty…