After driving 24 hours in the last 36 hours, I haven’t had much time to do a normal written post. After sleeping in the car in a picnic area conveniently marked “no overnight parking”, I woke up at 5am to the sunrise and watched it come up over the Black Hills. It was pretty cool, so we decided to shoot [...]

There’s a week left until I take 40+ people jumping out of a plane in Portland. I’ve got the deposits in, head counts finalized and all the tiny little details taken care of except for one small thing. I didn’t know how I was going to get there. I had organized a trip from 2,000 miles away, convinced 40+ people [...]

Fred Wilson, a prominent figure in the venture capital/investment community was getting interviewed at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in front of a group of developers and entrepreneurs. As they were talking, the idea of applications for platforms (companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter) came up and Fred told a short story about his experiences with platforms: Fred – My friend Seth [...]

I’ve been in a lot of pain this week. A lot. Running a marathon has literally been the most painful thing I’ve had to do in my entire life. Not only was I hurting immediately after the marathon, but this whole week has been a blend of slow movements, ice baths and newly invented swear words muffled under my breath. [...]

Running a Marathon – Not Impossible It’s been almost 6 months since my last official race.  That’s a long layover between athletic competitions for me, but that’s what happens in the Midwest. It gets cold, snowy and you don’t want to step foot outside, much less run in it. Anyways, a few months back after being cooped up all winter, [...]

Every once in a while in the story of your life, you find things going surprisingly well. Your job is going decently well, you have a platform where you can talk and a small group of remarkable people will listen. You’re in relatively good shape and are able to slowly accomplish a few things that used to seem impossible. Sure, [...]

A little boost of inspiration for the day “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll “I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.” – Saint Teresa “Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.” – Jonathan Winters “The difficult is [...]

The first time you do something, it’s really hard and you probably suck at it. The second time you do something it’s still hard, but you struggle through it The third time you do something it starts to get a little easier. The tenth time you do something, it starts to get a lot easier, you begin to feel like [...]

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