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Workflow challenges and changes while traveling abroad

10 December 2008

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It’s 4:35AM in Australia and while everyone else (my sister, her roommate, & my girlfriend) are asleep, but my internal clock was aching me to ‘get the hell outta bed!” So here I am sipping tea and writing a blog post. Before my travels to Sydney I purchased the super tiny Asus eeePC 901 series. Yes, the [...]

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Integrating GTD in my life…again.

23 November 2008

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For the past 1.5 weeks I’ve been adhering pretty closely to the GTD lifestyle. This was all kicked off by a mini gtd seminar I helped organize at Conjunctured. I asked Drew Arnold who I met after being featured in the Statesman a while back about mine and John Erik’s use of GTD in our [...]

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funny how all the good stuff starts to happen at once

26 March 2008

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lot’s of good developments in my business endeavors. Was just jamming out to the Killers “All these things that I’ve done” after I received what could be a MONUMENTAL email in my inbox for a very large retail store to carry a selection of some of our t-shirts. Not only that, [...]

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Correlation between business success and physical fitness

6 February 2008

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Does that correlation exist?  At this point, I’m not totally sure.  The inspiration for this post comes from that the fact that over the past several weeks I’ve been doing multiple sets of pushups daily on a regular basis, and because I’m not exactly the most muscular guy in the room, I’ve started to notice [...]

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Working in the presence other solo-ists. Casual coworking.

21 December 2007

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Being an entrepreneur is a solo experience.  It is…  It isn’t…  We could go into a long discussion about it.  None the less, you spend a lot of time alone, very few people understand what goes on in your mind, so eventually you begin to distance yourself from people—realizing you’re a bit weird.  All of [...]

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My journey towards an actualized, enlightened young entrepreneur life

18 November 2007

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Truths I have discovered through my journey towards enlightenment. Actions can be completed with exact delicacy and focus. Actions created in that matter prove to be more meaningful. When time goes slower, you will learn to appreciate the slight occurrences of [...]

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Learn to be Proud of Your “Bad” Grades if You Earned Them

11 May 2007

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I just read a post and subsequent comment discussion over at Mind Petals: Youth Entrepreneur Network that talked about A students vs. B students. “‘B’ students are innovative, risk takers with short attention spans…’A’ students are focused and more likely to be grounded.” A little story from my personal experience… I seemed to be that B/C student…it [...]

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