I just finished the first draft of my first book, and I am excited! I thought I would put some of my thoughts as to why I am doing this and how it came to be. It started with the simplest reason, t...

I used to tell my team, "If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, what would suffer?" I said it enough times that someone finally told me it was too morbid. So we changed it to, "If you won the lottery an...

Last week I had a confidence crisis regarding my SaaS/AI thesis. When I first saw ChatGPT a few years ago, I thought that AI was going to kill software given enough time. Just as software greatly d...

Turn This Ship Around! was a fun book, both for the great management advice and for how you learn more about how the Navy and nuclear submarines work. The advice in this book is solid: good manager...

So many people are worried about how AI is going to take over their jobs. They are shifting investments and careers to areas that are focusing on manual labor that is harder to automate, however, p...

“If everyone thinks like you, you don’t need them.” — Turn the Ship Around! I love this principle. Back in my days in the corporate world, I would tell my team that “If we all agree, it’s probably...

“One of the worst punishments is having your dreams come true."  This is a very good quote from the series Foundation (Season 2, Episode 2). We often don't really know what will make us happy, or ...

As someone who has never been involved with a multi-level-marketing ("MLM") scheme before, I am glad I read this book. It shed light on the abuse that happens to most of the people who sell under o...

One of the best books I have read in 2025 was Morgan Housel's "The Art of Spending Money." This book is not so much a book on spending money as it is about how to have a centered and well-balanced ...

They say that the best way to figure out what you want in a house is to buy your first house. Then you will see all the things you like and don't like, and it will help you figure out your second h...

I am building tools for the Office of the CFO. The Office of the CFO is essentially a term that means any department that reports up to the CFO. This is obviously accounting and finance related too...

Counting calories has always been a pain. The apps are always cumbersome to keep track of everything you eat. Not only is it a bit of work to pull out the app and find the food you are looking for,...

I just finished a book called Daily Rituals by Mason Currey. It is a very fun book and an interesting look into the lives of great creators. The book looks into the daily lives and creative habits ...

There are a lot of ways that websites can track you and I am opting out of all of them. Ultimately I don’t think most people care too much if the websites they are using spy on them, but they would...

I have been experimenting with a new daily routine/schedule and it is working pretty well. Because I have started my own company, I want to make sure that I do actual real work, and am not getting ...