“What do you do?”
Nothing wrong with the question at all, but I immediately find it irrelevant to the overall make up of who I am.  Not to mention what I can accomplish. You should too.
Corporations, heck even smaller companies, all do one thing to you immediately.  Place a skill set label on you and immediately [...]

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I’ve wrote about adding randomness to your routine here. Its amazing what it will add to your creativity. In that light, I figured why not delve into a follow up on a slightly similar theme. It’s about dealing with adversity, and the challenges of things that will never go away.
Look at it as a [...]

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Direction. Inspiration. Momentum.
People that know me know that I like to boil things down to their simplest aspects.  It might be because I’m slow or not quite as smart as the rest of us out there, but that’s not the point.  Direction, inspiration, and motivation as I see it, are the three things I need [...]

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If this question isn’t the most popular of all time, it has to be close: “How is your job going?”.
Inevitably the kosher answer to this question is, “It’s going good”.
Rarely do you get the outlier event of a person telling you how much they LOVE what they are doing.  And if they do tell you [...]

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There isn’t a more frustrating thing in the world than dealing with management that doesn’t get it.  I know everyone fundamentally has some issue with someone in power at work above them, whether its their direct manager or being out of tune with someone above that lives in the clouds.
It’s only natural. It is like [...]

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In a world of never-ending lists, I figured why not make one of my own?  I am pretty sure, in the next 5-10 years, all writing whether it be factual or fictional will just be pages of lists.  That way everyone can read the first couple points on each page, make an incorrect inference, and [...]

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I usually don’t post about music, and talk about artists I like or dislike, and I’m not going to here.  I do, however, like to relate similar concepts that I understand to things that are difficult to grasp. As I can see it, right now the markets are in a period of dissonance. [...]

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My brother got me inspired with his post here.
What do you like doing?  What are the things you do, where you constantly find yourself stress free, without worries, and not thinking about how terrible your next day is going to be?
Cue music. That’s where I am heading. I am not exactly sure where [...]

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I got mentioned over at the Evernote blog. They asked for tweets about how you use Evernote, and I responded with the following:
“Using Evernote gloriously to be a smarter wine consumer. I can’t remember yesterday, let alone the name of the last wine bottle I drank.” - Kevin Frey
I have spoke of my love [...]

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