23 Things I Learned From 6 Years in Asia
It’s June 2018. I’m 37,000 feet over Northeast Siberia, sitting in a large metal tube doing 600 mph. Suddenly, I have to pee. I’m halfway down the aisle on my way to the bathroom when it hits me… a crippling pang of anxiety in my chest. In an instant, all I can think is: My […]
2024 Year In Review
2024 was, hands down, the most unique year of my life. There will never be another one like it. Let’s start with the fact that I lived in 3 countries and literally retired for 6 months. Not joking… Sarah and I quit our jobs and moved to Bali, Indonesia. All we did was surf and […]
Another QR Code Bites The Dust: 6 Uncommon 1st Time Founder Mistakes (my SaaS story)
I shoulda been selling ice cream on a beach
I Wish I Studied Engineering In College
The answer to all life’s problems
2023 Year In Review
What happened in 2023? Objectively, it should have been a pretty good year, but something doesn’t feel right. This is a long one. Strap in. 🫀 health stuff 💼 career stuff 🤑 money stuff 🕺 fun stuff 🧬 life stuff …which can all be boiled down to this: 😊 Pros – I stayed fit, traveled a ton, […]
How I Write
This blog recently celebrated it’s 1st birthday, and lo and behold, a bit of a writing system has emerged. Kinda the point! This post is about how I post posts. If not for you, this one’s for me. To put it all on paper. After all, clear writing = clear thinking. Raw Content Generation I don’t […]
The Only Way Out Is Through
It’s been nearly a year since I quit my job to be an “entrepreneur”, and would ya look at that, the Impostor Syndrome is really starting to sink in. I quit my day job because I doubted my ability to deliver if my attention was split between work and side projects. In classic whack-a-mole fashion, solving that […]
Man Learns to Code at Tender Age of 31
My hand trembled with anticipation as it hovered over the enter key. 6 weeks of hard work had led to this moment. Sickened by months of manual Excel work, I had finally cobbled together a bloated code file that might be smart enough to do all of that mind-numbing work for me. Emerging from hundreds of lines of […]
2022 Year In Review
What happened in 2022? 2022 was a year of major transition for me as I quit my job and struck out on my own. Inspired my newly acquired “free agent” status, I conducted my first personal annual review. Here’s what went down in 2022 (in no particular order): 🫀 health stuff 💼 career stuff 🧠 brain […]
A Lunatic’s Guide To Productivity
“Crazy”. “Insane”. “He’s a lunatic”. All words or phrases commonly used to describe me. Nowhere does my lunacy shine brighter than in my relentless pursuit of time efficiency and productive output. This is probably because I hate wasting time, but partially because I’m taking a risky turn in life. Spend 2 minutes scrolling through the […]