In conversation, someone said to me, “All feedback is a gift.” I couldn’t disagree more. Feedback, at its most basic nature, is someone else giving you their opinion on a thing with the intention of helping you. However, framed in the manner of an opinion, no matter the intention, I find the framing of the…More
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Strategic Spending
A book titled “Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less,” which I have not read, had a section posted on Twitter. It discussed strategic and nonstrategic costs. Explained briefly, a strategic cost is an expense that adds to the bottom line. Examples would be advertising that works, salespeople, R&D that you can commercialize. A…More
B2C Becomes B2B
Print media’s hay day was when you they made money on both sides of the equation. Readers subscribed to the paper, and advertisers paid to advertise in it. Then, Google came along. Print media was the original industry to monetize B2C and B2B. The free + ads model is pervasive in today’s world. Facebook and…More
Places to Live, Places to Visit
Editor’s Note: When we started being digital nomads, we wanted to live one month per location. We wanted to immerse ourselves in the culture and live like locals for a minute, then bounce and do it again. Below is an edited excerpt from my diary. August 1, 2022 Zagreb Croatia It’s time I recap some…More
Once in a Generation Opportunities
It seems like every day over the last few weeks I’ve received a notification that another growth stock is down 5%, 10%, or more. Cathie Wood’s Ark Innovation Fund sends out a weekly email outlining their positions in stocks that go up or down 15% in a single day, and most of those stocks have…More
25 Years of Peace – Year 2
2 years into my journey, I’ve never missed a day of writing down something that brought me peace. It’s interesting to notice some of the themes that have arisen. The same people, over and over, bring peace. Those people get tons of my time. I write their names down a lot. Freedom comes up an…More
25 Years of Peace – Year 1
In the months leading up to my 25th birthday, I focused on who I wanted to be at 50. What did I want my life to be like? What type of person did I want to become? I didn’t want to plan everything out, but I wanted to identify the one or two key characteristics…More
My first entrepreneurial safety net
My first year in business was primarily spent building mobile apps for clients. When I was in college, I thought that mobile apps would be pretty big, and I thought AI would be really important. I didn’t have any money to hire developers and I didn’t know how to build apps or AI, so I…More
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