• How to Listen to Feedback

    How to Listen to Feedback

    It’s been an interesting month so far. Two relevant things happened: first, I got some critical feedback that I needed to hear but sort of stung, and second, CruiseSheet has been doing extremely well. For the longest time I’ve run my businesses as I thought they should be run. I’d hear people out and take…

  • The Best 2021 Ever

    I think a lot about what an outsider would assume about me if they were to get a deep view of me. What would they think my priorities are? Would they think that I will succeed? Would they think I’m a good friend? When the answers to these hypothetical questions is out of line with…

  • The Best 2021 Ever

    The Best 2021 Ever

    I think a lot about what an outsider would assume about me if they were to get a deep view of me. What would they think my priorities are? Would they think that I will succeed? Would they think I’m a good friend? When the answers to these hypothetical questions is out of line with…

  • The Best 2021 Ever

    The Best 2021 Ever

    I think a lot about what an outsider would assume about me if they were to get a deep view of me. What would they think my priorities are? Would they think that I will succeed? Would they think I’m a good friend? When the answers to these hypothetical questions is out of line with…

  • The Best 2021 Ever

    The Best 2021 Ever

    I think a lot about what an outsider would assume about me if they were to get a deep view of me. What would they think my priorities are? Would they think that I will succeed? Would they think I’m a good friend? When the answers to these hypothetical questions is out of line with…

  • Getting Mad at Myself on Purpose and Hating TV

    Getting Mad at Myself on Purpose and Hating TV

    I was encouraged to watch the TV series True Crime, which I was told was excellent. I watched the first couple episodes and found all sorts of things I didn’t like about it, which made it easy for me to stop watching the show and write it off. This happens to me for most TV…

  • What Won’t You Have?

    What Won’t You Have?

    Ask anyone what their top priority is, and I bet you get at least three. And if you were to observe their actions, maybe you’d notice that the top priority they’re acting on has nothing to do with any of the three they listed. We all want a lot, and that’s because it’s easy to…

  • Living in a World Not Built For You

    Living in a World Not Built For You

    I say this not to complain or even to suggest that it should be otherwise, but it occurs to me regularly that I live in a world that was not only not designed for me, but may have been designed for the opposite of me. I’m in Queenstown, New Zealand right now with a couple…

  • Proof in Difficulty

    Proof in Difficulty

    Being funny is an interesting phenomenon. Why are people funny? Why does it matter? Sure it makes you feel good when someone is joking around with you, but so do back rubs and compliments. Why do we like it when people are funny? One theory is that humor is an indicator of intelligence, and we…

  • Do You Want What You Want?

    Do You Want What You Want?

    Two years or so into working on Sett, an experienced entrepreneur friend of mine brought up the topic of taking investment. He thought that we should raise money and was interested in being the first person to invest. So we talked seriously about it. One of the questions he asked was whether I wanted to…