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Living with Migraines
NOTE: Over half of this was written while with a migraine last night. On whole, I’ve come to terms that migraines are something I have to live with as opposed to a debilitating sickness that ruins the...
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4 Insights from Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Sunday night I went to see the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi around the corner from me at Indie Screen (see trailer below). It follows an 85-year old sushi chef in his philosophy on sushi and how...
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Don’t compare yourself to others
It’s a toxic state of mind. Once you head down that road, you’ll feel a combination of frustration, depression, satisfaction, regret, relief, failure, numbness, and disappointment. In the long run,...
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Focus on One
All too often I’m excited with ideas. Some. I. Do. Others get canned or shelved. The remainder just get in the way. If you acted on all your ideas, you wouldn’t get any sleep and likely wouldn’t be...
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Who are your customers?
I recently met with an entrepreneur growing his B2B startup. As I was running through his company’s concept, I asked him how he decided on the company’s customer and how the other business’ involved...
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Everyone’s Busy
I don’t believe in excuses. They’re often there to hide the truth. The one that bothers me the most is, “I’m too busy,” when the truth is that we’re all busy. Once you can come to that realization you...
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The Soda Ban: A Moral Grey Area
I recently got back from a business trip to San Francisco, which is in the state that banned fois gras and I came home to the borough of Brooklyn, whose greater city of New York has recently banned...
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My Life As Someone Else’s Dream
Amidst the 12 hours during the storm where I was out of power at my girlfriend’s apartment, I began to reread The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I started to pick it up again yesterday morning for...
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Top 10 Concerts of 2012
As usual, I went to A LOT of concerts. I don’t have ticket stubs for most. I mostly went back to check out pictures to jog my memory. I’m happy with my choices below and hope you agree. Also,...
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Learn By Doing
Maybe I’m late to the game, but last week I read Anything you Want by Derek Sivers. My friend Tristan insisted I read it and even brought it out to a bar last Monday in order to lend it to me. It’s...
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4 Theories on Yahoo’s Purchase of Tumblr
As soon as I read the news that Yahoo acquired Tumblr, I was happy for my friends at Tumblr and prayed that they had equity. Even .01% of $1.1B is a decent chunk of change ($110,000). However, as the...
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11 ideas that are better than World War Z’s $50 ticket
I rarely go out of my way to read the news. Occasionally I’ll open up Twitter in the morning to see the headlines on the news sites I follow. More often than not though, I just open up my daily email...
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I’m back on the yoga train
Before I moved to Brooklyn five years ago, I used to do Bikram yoga in Philly thanks to my old boss Andy. The heat made me more flexible, forced me to focus more, and gave me peace of mind. When I...
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Out of old comes something new
For the past couple months, I felt my life just passing instead of taking control of it. I was lacking energy and was tired practically all the time. Nothing made me excited. As a result, the past...
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Personal Perspective
September marks two years I’ve been in the same apartment, which also coincides with the most time I’ve called a place home since I was 18. Home means settled and planted. Home means comfortable. In...
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I’ve never been good at juggling
I’ve never been a master at multitasking and I don’t think humans in general were built to juggle many things. My theory is that we haven’t even evolved in that direction. Instead we’ve culturally...
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I’ve become obsessed with the future
Brian David Johnson’s job is to envision how society will interact with technology 10+ years in the future, so that he can make recommendations for what Intel should invest in from a product...
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My ridiculous day ended at 11:30 at Applebee’s (but I had a gift certificate...
Let me break down some of the various phases of my day…generally speaking. None of this was planned except for 1, 6, and 7. working from home coffee with a friend staying at said coffee shop to finish...
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Imagination, Personal Growth, and Technology
I’m pretty sure we got our first computer in 1991. It was fairly limited in what it could do and I was often afraid I would make “it” mad causing it to break at a push of a key. In 1993, my sister...
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Top 10 Albums of 2013
NOTE: these aren’t in any order. Filed under: Industry Commentary
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