The subtitle should read “(and the only one I’ll ever write)” The phrase “self-help” makes me cringe. To me it conjures up an image of people reading book after book about the same concepts, talking through the same principles and rehashed over and over again by different authors using different terms over and over again in an attempt to make [...]

You’re waiting for that one idea. That one great big shiny idea. The one idea that will blow up beyond your wildest imagination and lets you turn to some investors and cooly say, “Sure I’ll sell…for a BILLION dollars or so” while cooly gesturing with your hand while watching them not even bat an eye because they’re know it’s worth [...]

How To Walk Across America This weekend I flew out to San Francisco to see my really good friend Nate Damm walked across America. Well, he didn’t do it all yesterday. Back in February, Nate started walking in Delaware and headed west for San Francisco. For the past 7 months, Nate’s been walking…and walking…and walking some more. In between we took a short [...]

Some days you write. Some days you do. On some days, you’re able to do both. Some days you can’t. I try to write regularly but the best writing usually happens when you’re writing about stuff you’re actually doing. That’s usually my plan, but the only problem is that sometimes doing doesn’t always leave time for writing, so if you [...]

In every race, there’s a few glamorous steps forward you take. The step across the starting line, the step across the finish line and possibly the steps in front of the water stations where you smile at the volunteers as you try and convince them that you’re not actually tired yet. Those steps are the easy ones. When you’re starting [...]

What are you building? What are you building? Is it something worthwhile? Is it something that’s going to last? When someone like Steve Jobs passes away, the world watches as we literally see the changes that happened in the last 30 years due to some of his technical innovations. But more than his 317 patents, what’s more compelling to me personally, is how [...]

The official launch of ImpossibleHQ and the Official Impossible T-Shirt. Read on for the background story, check out ImpossibleHQ and get your impossible shirt!