In general, “the rules” fall into two categories. “For our safety,” or “for gain.” By “for gain,” I mean for a company’s gain – i.e., “We can’t give out more than one sample because we’ll lose money.” In general, the rules make sense. Except for the TSA. Their rules never make sense. But – Part of succeeding in business has to involve knowing when the bend, or even break the rules. There will never be a rule that can be designed for every single situation without fail. Every situation is different, and anyone in charge of enforcing the rules needs to understand that. No business will thrive (or even survive) if they don’t know when to bend or break a [...]

Deeply personal and “deep down into my brain and soul” type of post below that I’ll probably wind up regretting posting. I’m currently experiencing my “fate worse than death.” First time in about three years or so that it’s come back. We all have one. For some, it’s as simple as sitting next to a constant-talker on a plane. For others, it’s much more complex. But we all have one. And before the comments start, I’m not putting down anyone else’s “fate worse than death,” nor am I marginalizing anything – not cancer, not child labor, nothing. This is just mine. Yes, lots of other things suck, but that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to have mine, as well. I’ve [...]

In honor of leap day, here’s a leap I made several months ago. Just a regular old skydive, what they call a hop-and-pop – Low altitude, but still mountains of fun. Enjoy!

About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called “Why you need to get up earlier, and how to do it“. It became an instant popular post, with tons of linkage and referrals from people around the world who were all like “I’m going to get up earlier! This is what I’m going to do!” Cool. Glad it helped, and the basic rules in it still apply. (Use the bedroom for sleeping and sex only, drink a huge glass of water the second you wake up…) etc. Over the past year, however, I learned something really, really interesting, just from my own experience: The type of bed on which you sleep plays a huge part in how well you [...]

When you hire a professional contractor to do the job you could do, so it’ll be “perfect,” as opposed to just “done.”