Unload the gun

May 27, 2009

How many times have you sent an email with an embarrassing typo, forgot to include someone on the message or just plain said something that you wish you could take back? Once you click send, you’re committed. Take the bullet out of the chamber (not sure why this never occurred to me) by adding your [...]

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Deconnecting

May 22, 2009

Just completed a massive scrub of all of my social networks – deleting every connection that I had little reason to connect with. Where there is obligation, there is also risk – at least opportunity risk. When your network of friends gets too big, you risk not investing enough in the ones that matter most. [...]

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The Circle is now Complete

April 26, 2009

After a brief hiatus to get the business steamrolling – I’m committed to 30 days of blogging. I’ve now been able to complete my transition to gmail with this simple app, gattach, which does 2 things. 1 it makes GMAIL my default email service, so I don’t have to cancel the start-up of outlook every [...]

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Not Really about The Bachelor

March 3, 2009

I confess. I watched tonight’s “The Bachelor” and dramatic “After the Rose” show to mild reality game show amusement and gut wrenching heartstrings drama. If you haven’t seen it, here’s the 30 second summary. Jason (the bachelor) picks Melissa and proposes to her and rejects Molly. A few weeks later, Jason breaks up with Melissa, [...]

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The Purge

January 22, 2009

Despite the obvious Lost reference, this is about getting rid of stuff I don’t need and managing the things that I actually use. If I haven’t used it, worn it or remembered it in six months, it’s gone. I don’t live by this policy religiously and I don’t keep a running list of every item’s [...]

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Revised Revolutions and Resolutions

January 19, 2009

A week before the end of 2008 I had all ready started the process of setting resolutions for 2009. At first, I planned on being as careful as possible to make each objective specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, etc… Such specific controls are not always realistic or personally meaningful. Being strategic is important, but you have [...]

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Messy but Delicious

January 5, 2009

My official 2009 begins today, so I will close out the chapter of 2008 and fine tune the plan for 2009. I did something unconventional (for my own slightly risk-averse perspective) but absolutely necessary in 2008. After moving to a new city where there are fewer professional opportunities and a new daughter to raise, I [...]

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Positive Partnering

December 29, 2008

I could probably start an entire blog about partner / equity sharing horror stories and missed opportunities. There seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between great opportunities and terrible partnerships. There is little disappointment about plain old bad businesses. It’s when things go right or could have gone right and things fall apart that [...]

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Texas Stadium

December 20, 2008

I moved back to Texas in 1981. Irving, TX to be specific. This is, after a childhood of interchangeable military bases and indistinguishable off-base housing. My family brought with it, a history of sacred stuffing recipes and a complex family algorithm of often remarried and unmarried partners and the secret dna of my ultimate history.  [...]

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