Posts in Business

I believe the true purpose of a business is to express the values and intent of the owner to the world. It’s an opportunity to practice life. It is a vehicle for freedom, for creativity, for the pursuit of mastery, for artistic expression. It’s a chance to say “this is how I think a company should interact with employees, with customers, with the outside world. This is what matters to me.”

Can Desire Be Contagious? (Comments)

Can you teach passion?

Living the mission (Comments)

A trip to Google uncovers the ‘secret ingredient’ to their success – unbridled passion for what they do.

Meet some people. Check out NextNY (Comments)

Went to the NextNY roundtable conversation tonight, and had a blast. About 50 people gathered to hear the CEO of Weblogs, Inc, the President of Del.icio.us, and some of the more prominent angel and VC investors in New York. the food and drinks were great, the energy was great, the insight was great. It’s only [...]

The real paradigm shift (Comments)

There’s a lot to love about the nature of the web community these days. People working on cool projects, loving what they do, excited to get up each day, truly believing that they have the creativity and passion to change the world in some small way. It’s the complete antithesis of so many corporate environments. [...]

Simplicity (Comments)

Simplicity is a difficult thing to come by. We live fragmented, disjointed lives, always running from something, to something. We’re trying to get more and more done with less and less time. It’s an impossible race that leaves us tired, empty, drained. We as a society love to prize the man or woman who can [...]

Swept anyone off their feet lately? (Comments)

Overheard a conversation at the coffee shop this morning. A girl fell in love over the weekend. The guy really did sound amazing, but the thing that struck me the most was that he wasn’t doing anything that remarkable. Rare, but not remarkable. The guy’s an actor (in New York of all places.) – The [...]

Grow Up (Comments)

When I was in college, I skipped a lot of class. I used to rationalize it by saying to myself I was busy with other things. I was running a couple student groups, I was coaching football, I was working a job, I was spending a lot of time at the local bookstore reading marketing [...]

Free Lunch (Comments)

With the wedding and my upcoming move to Chicago, I’ve been worried a lot about money lately. This week I resolved to not spend any money eating out. This afternoon, as I was sitting in a Starbucks, I realized that I hadn’t eaten anything all day. A few minutes after I realized I was pretty [...]

web designers and Web Designers (Comments)

A lot of programmers I’ve talked to lately are worried about Ruby on Rails. They are worried that this framework is going to put a tremendous amount of power in the hands of anyone with a computer and a free weekend. They’re concerned that, just like Frontpage and Dreamweaver did to web design, Rails and [...]

two hundred posts. (Comments)

It’s been nearly three years since I started writing. It’s amazing what a person learns… I learned for the first time what mourning meant when I lost someone very close to my heart – my childhood beagle, Lucy. I learned that though they may not have complex brains…or skills marketable in the professional workplace…or refined [...]