Not the easiest thing in the world by any means, but I work on it a lot.
It’s almost certainly why I started writing.  It’s definitely why I quickly jump out of a conversation about software development (what I do and what I know) and into what your doing with your business and how your making [...]

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Market is going either up or down today, how should I play it?
Which direction should I turn for lunch, left, right, or straight?
What color should I paint my walls, blue, red, orange, or magenta?
More than anytime in your life, possibly in history, you are presented with choices in almost everything you do.  Its [...]

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“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 am probably the farthest thing from a political person you can find on the planet.  I try to follow as much as I can, but I will be the first to admit that I keep elections at arms length. I don’t know why I’m like this.  I take a super keen interest in all [...]

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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’ll admit it.  I got my a@# handed to me on my most recent foray into options.  I’ll also admit that I totally stole the title of this post from a phrase my friend Andy uses. I can’t help it, as it sums up BEAUTIFULLY what happened to me today.
Here’s a quick synopsis:
I have [...]

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