Week one of the run­ning pro­gram is offi­cially in the books, and I feel really good about it. While the first week of the pro­gram involved a lot more walk­ing than run­ning, the hard­est part came long before I laced up the Asics, strapped on the I-Pod, and hit the side­walk. The chal­lenge was over­com­ing …read more

Check out the newly released Google Help page. It has tons of infor­ma­tion on all things Google, and there is a lot more to the Big G than sim­ple search. It houses an excel­lent A-Z list­ing page of ser­vices and solu­tions includ­ing GMail and Google Cal­en­dar. Also of note is the list­ing of Writely, the …read more

I was run­ning this morn­ing, day 2 of the new pro­gram thank you, and got to think­ing about pro­fes­sional foot­ball. I was pon­der­ing the impact of a great offen­sive line on the ulti­mate suc­cess of a pro­fes­sional foot­ball team. My mind drifted back to the 1990’s, and the Dal­las Cow­boys. That offen­sive line was one …read more

Alright, I real­ize this post will cement my place in the loser hall of fame, but here goes any­way. I am writ­ing to tell you about a tech­nique you can use to make unload­ing the dish­washer eas­ier. Face it, it ain’t that hard to begin with, but I am one of those con­tin­u­ous improve­ment dorks …read more

For what­ever silly rea­son, I have decided that I need to improve my car­dio­vas­cu­lar fit­ness. Thus I am embark­ing on a pro­gram of run­ning that I came across on the won­der­ful site lifehack.org, not to be con­fused with the equally won­der­ful lifehacker.com. The pro­gram is sim­ple, and involves 30 min­utes of walk­ing / jog­ging a …read more

Next month Seth Godin’s new book Small is the New Big will be released. It is a col­lec­tion of great blog posts, excerpts from mag­a­zine arti­cles, and other assorted gems penned by Mr. Godin. I am look­ing for­ward to read­ing it, (again). I have already read most of the con­tent by fol­low­ing Seth’s blog, where …read more

Car­pool­ing. Yes that is a ridicu­lously obvi­ous answer, but judg­ing by the amount of peo­ple I see dri­ving solo every day, it may be worth stat­ing the obvi­ous. Below I share my rea­sons for shar­ing the wheel. The Mon­e­tary Argu­ment for Car­pool­ing Find­ing some­one you work with to split dri­ving duties is an easy way to …read more

I came across a great Bud­dhist quote while read­ing Mihaly Csikszentmihali’s Find­ing Flow last night. “Act as if the future of the uni­verse depended on what you did, while laugh­ing at your­self for think­ing that what­ever you do makes any dif­fer­ence.” Being in a sales role, this quote seemed to really res­onate with my day to …read more

Well loyal read­ers, I promised to pro­vide an update to the grip­ping saga that is my Inter­net bill as soon as any­thing changed. Hap­pily, last Fri­day some­thing did. At the time of my last post, I was dumb­founded by the lack of pro­fes­sion­al­ism demon­strated by AT&T / Yahoo due to their inabil­ity to resolve a $17.00 …read more

Below is the text of an impor­tant email I received from savetheinternet.com — a group fight­ing to keep the inter­net out of the hands of big tele­com com­pa­nies like AT&T, Com­cast, and Ver­i­zon. The site has made it sim­ple to find out if your elected offi­cial is on the side of the peo­ple or sim­ply …read more