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Archives for May 2011

How To Sneak Into Mount Rushmore

May 31, 2011 By Joel Runyon 24 Comments

After driving 24 hours in the last 36 hours, I haven't had much time to do a normal written post. After sleeping in the car in a picnic area conveniently marked "no overnight parking", I woke up at 5am to the sunrise and watched it come up over the Black Hills. It was pretty cool, so we decided to shoot a video while it was happen.  Please try to excuse the excessive shaking of the camera. It's a result of the waking up in a 40-50 degree car and trying to ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, Updates Tagged With: How To Sneak Into Mount Rushmore, How To Sneak Into Mt. Rushmore, Joel Runyon, Mount Rushmore, Mt. Rushmore, Nate Damm, Nate Walks America, wds, WDS Road Trip, Where Is Nate, world domination summit

The Longest Route Between Two Cities Is A Road Trip

May 27, 2011 By Joel Runyon 31 Comments

There’s a week left until I take 40+ people jumping out of a plane in Portland. I’ve got the deposits in, head counts finalized and all the tiny little details taken care of except for one small thing. I didn’t know how I was going to get there. I had organized a trip from 2,000 miles away, convinced 40+ people to face their fears and jump out of a plane and collected over $2,000 in deposit money, but I still didn't know how I was actually getting to ...

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Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: biz lab, las vegas, milwaukee, move to milwaukee, portland, road trip, rocket clicks, seattle, skydiving, way out west, world domination summit

Be Your Own Bitch

May 25, 2011 By Joel Runyon 30 Comments

Fred Wilson, a prominent figure in the venture capital/investment community was getting interviewed at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in front of a group of developers and entrepreneurs. As they were talking, the idea of applications for platforms (companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter) came up and Fred told a short story about his experiences with platforms: Fred - My friend Seth Goldstein had a company called Social Media that built one of the ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: be adaptable, be your own bitch, disrupt, do what you love, do what you want, fred wilson, job security 2.0, live your life, tech crunch

A Glutton For Punishment: The Need For Pain

May 20, 2011 By Joel Runyon 36 Comments

I’ve been in a lot of pain this week. A lot. Running a marathon has literally been the most painful thing I’ve had to do in my entire life. Not only was I hurting immediately after the marathon, but this whole week has been a blend of slow movements, ice baths and newly invented swear words muffled under my breath. My penguin walk upgraded to a hobble and is now a slight limp [Go healing!), but my ankle is still problematic and hurts as I walk so I’m going ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible Tagged With: Impossible, lots of pain, marathon pain, pain, running pain, the need for pain

How To Run A Marathon Barefoot (And Not Die)

May 17, 2011 By Joel Runyon 69 Comments

Running a Marathon – Not Impossible It’s been almost 6 months since my last official race.  That's a long layover between athletic competitions for me, but that’s what happens in the Midwest. It gets cold, snowy and you don’t want to step foot outside, much less run in it. Anyways, a few months back after being cooped up all winter, I decided I was going to run a marathon. The weather started to warm up and I’ve been training quietly for a marathon for ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: Barefoot Marathon, Barefoot Running, Bucket List, How To Run A Marathon, Impossible, Not Dying, Rockford Marathon, Rockford Marathon 2011, Running A Marathon, The Impossible, The Impossible List

Never Be Comfortable

May 13, 2011 By Joel Runyon 82 Comments

Every once in a while in the story of your life, you find things going surprisingly well. Your job is going decently well, you have a platform where you can talk and a small group of remarkable people will listen. You're in relatively good shape and are able to slowly accomplish a few things that used to seem impossible. Sure, none of it happens overnight, but over time it does happens. Impossible things get easier and it becomes easier to get comfortable ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: Comfort, How to be uncomfortable, Incredibly Uncomfortable, lifestyle, Never Be Comfortable, Quit Your Job, Take Real Risks, Uncomfortable

33 More Impossible Quotes

May 10, 2011 By Joel Runyon 23 Comments

A little boost of inspiration for the day "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles R. Swindoll "I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible." - Saint Teresa "Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." - Jonathan Winters "The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer." - Fridtjof ...

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Filed Under: The Impossible Tagged With: impossible quotes, Quotes, The Impossible

Coasting to the Next Level

May 6, 2011 By Joel Runyon 25 Comments

The first time you do something, it’s really hard and you probably suck at it. The second time you do something it's still hard, but you struggle through it The third time you do something it starts to get a little easier. The tenth time you do something, it starts to get a lot easier, you begin to feel like you’ve got the hang of things and it feels like you could just ride that momentum without trying as hard as you used to and be okay. Here, the ...

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Start

May 4, 2011 By Joel Runyon 31 Comments

That thing you love. That thing you were meant to do. That thing you keep putting off. Start that. Right here. Right now. Go. What are you waiting for? Start [Photo by jakeandlindsay] ...

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