Posts in Love,Personal

Plateaus (View Comments)

The past month or two of my life has been in a constant state of flux, and it’s starting to get to me. With the move just completed and a wedding fast approaching, with countless projects piling up professionally, my mind has been all over the place. The two years I spent in New York [...]

I love/hate New York (View Comments)

Funny how you don’t appreciate things until they’re (almost) gone. When I left Colorado I was so ready. I had spent my entire life there, was sick of seeing the same people every time I went anywhere, was sick of the lack of diversity and the lack of a big, ambitious young business climate. These [...]

discouraging rejection (View Comments)

When I go home to Colorado, I often look at pictures of my brother when we were young. He was the cutest kid I’ve ever seen, with a giddy smile and a dimple in his right cheek. He was so full of life, so quick to laugh, so eager to please our parents, so willing [...]

Bill and Warren understand (View Comments)

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are combining their resources in an effort to change the world. It’s easy to say “So what! If I had 41 billion, I’d give away 35 billion too.” Thing is, most of us will never have that much scratch. But many of us, in our lifetimes, will have the opportunity [...]

Neophilia and its casualties (View Comments)

Seth points out an article today in Media Life Magazine about neophilia, an overwhelming, compulsive love of all things new. Seth rightly points out that this phenomena can easily be found on our coasts and in the tech community, but one would be hard-pressed to find evidence of such an afflicition in, say, Lena, Illionois. [...]

Father’s Day and Nobility (View Comments)

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes – 5 times the average. 85% of all children who show behavior disorders are from fatherless homes – 20 times the average. 80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes – 14 times the average. 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes [...]

The real paradigm shift (View 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 (View 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 [...]

30 days to a new you (View Comments)

When I was in junior high, I had a mentor who told me something that stuck with me for a long time. He said that it takes 30 days to develop a habit, which meant that if you went one year trying to improve yourself one good habit at a time, at the end of [...]

Swept anyone off their feet lately? (View 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 [...]