The subtitle should read "(and the only one I'll ever write)" The phrase "self-help" makes me cringe. To me it conjures up an image of people reading book after book about the same concepts, talking through the same principles and rehashed over and over again by different authors using different terms over and over again in an attempt to make a buck. There's a lot of money to be made in "self-help" because the people who consume it tend to keep reading ...
Archives for October 2011
Be Prolific
You're waiting for that one idea. That one great big shiny idea. The one idea that will blow up beyond your wildest imagination and lets you turn to some investors and cooly say, "Sure I'll sell...for a BILLION dollars or so" while cooly gesturing with your hand while watching them not even bat an eye because they're know it's worth at least two billion. One day it will come. In the meantime, you wait. You're doing it wrong. I hate to be the one to break ...
How To Walk Across America
How To Walk Across America This weekend I flew out to San Francisco to see my really good friend Nate Damm walked across America. Well, he didn’t do it all yesterday. Back in February, Nate started walking in Delaware and headed west for San Francisco. For the past 7 months, Nate’s been walking…and walking…and walking some more. In between we took a short little road trip to Portland, but for the rest of the time he just walked. He got up in the morning. ...
Choose Doing
Some days you write. Some days you do. On some days, you're able to do both. Some days you can't. I try to write regularly but the best writing usually happens when you're writing about stuff you're actually doing. That's usually my plan, but the only problem is that sometimes doing doesn't always leave time for writing, so if you have to choose between the two - choose doing. The next two days I'm in San Francisco walking with Nate as he finishes up ...
The Ugly Step Forward
In every race, there's a few glamorous steps forward you take. The step across the starting line, the step across the finish line and possibly the steps in front of the water stations where you smile at the volunteers as you try and convince them that you're not actually tired yet. Those steps are the easy ones. When you're starting out, you're not quite tired yet and the steps are pretty easy. When you're finishing, you see the end goal and they get ...
Are You Building Something That Matters?
What are you building? What are you building? Is it something worthwhile? Is it something that's going to last? When someone like Steve Jobs passes away, the world watches as we literally see the changes that happened in the last 30 years due to some of his technical innovations. But more than his 317 patents, what's more compelling to me personally, is how he approached them. While his technology, the ipods, the iphones, the macs and other all the ...
3…2…1…Launch Launch Launch!
Launch Launch Launch! Launch Day Is Here I literally haven't slept for the last 36 hours. I've been downing red bull and eating bacon the last few hours (yes, that's a completely healthy diet) testing things and I'm about to head out to work. I'll be running on adrenaline all day...but it's all going to be totally worth it. If you want to skip to the chase, you can get your Impossible T-Shirts here. If you want to read the stories behind it all, read ...
