Category: Thoughts

Happy New Year! 2013 is now a memory and 2014 is just getting started. I don’t know what happened New Year’s Eve,  not because I had a wild and crazy night, but because this was written before the New Year’s celebration began. As is fairly customary around this time, I’ve spent some time reflecting on…

Cracked.com published 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person at the end of 2012, but it’s a great message as we get ready for a new year. For the rest of you, I want you to try something: Name five impressive things about yourself. Write them down or just shout them out…

My latest book is The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman. I actually finished it in November, but never finished writing about it. I really enjoyed this book. It started with the author taking a grueling culinary test, the type of test that makes you think the people taking it are masochists and some…

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are enjoying the time with family and friends. I got to visit warm weather and spend time with my parents, my sister, and her new husband. Tomorrow I head back toward reality, but I’ll enjoy today first and worry about that tomorrow.

This is pretty cool…

Nelson Mandela passed yesterday. This morning USA Today published 15 of Nelson Mandela’s Best Quotes. I’m not sure I can pick a favorite, but the one that struck me the most while reading them is: A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world…

Something to consider… Why Chivalry Is Dead, From A Man’s Perspective

Kelly McGonigal presented How to Make Stress Your Friend as a TED Talk.

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend.

GQ publised The Bourbon Family Tree. How could I not share it?

Adam Spencer presented Why I Fell in Love with Monster Prime Numbers as a TED Talk.

One of my favorites:  

I found another TED Talk I like. This one is Tania Luna talking about appreciation.

Vanity Fair published  Friends Without Benefits talking about teenagers, social media, and sex. Read it.

I started reading again and recently finished Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The book talks about how they built their company in a much different way than most other companies and by going against most of the conventional advice young entrepreneurs are given. Most of the advice given by the authors is…

Al Vernacchio presented Sex Needs a New Metaphor. Here’s one … as a TED Talk.

Amanda Palmer presented The Art of Asking as a TED Talk.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of…

Written by a friend… Here I am, 28 and single. If you asked me four years ago, I probably would’ve told you I’d be married and living in the suburbs by now, but that is the furthest thing from the case. Being a single guy in your late twenties can best be compared to being…

Shane Koyczan presented “To This Day” … for the Bullied and Beautiful as a TED Talk.

My sister recently got married. Here are a bunch of pictures, courtesy of my uncle.

Happy Independence Day everyone!

In the past couple weeks several friends and colleagues have been hit with personal tragedy, AJ from East Celebrity Elite and Danika from Pacific Coast Magic being among them. There is little, if anything, I can claim to know about being a gym owner that lost a coach or athlete, or a kid that lost…

This is testing the push to Facebook and Twitter feature. If this works it will post to Twitter twice and Facebook 3 times. That will be fixed in the future.

Leadership. It’s not one size fits all. It would say “It’s Complicated” if it was a relationship status on Facebook. Although many of the characteristics needed of a leader are dependent on the situation, it seems like some leaders accept the challenge regardless of the circumstances. Why is it that some people can lead under…