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Baseball, Football and Entrepreneurs

During football season, you often hear that football is a “battle of the wills”. In a sport like baseball, on the other hand, smart people will tell you “there is no such thing as clutch ability,” and...

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Being Thankful

I know, this post is about six months too early, but my reading today struck a chord with me. One of the earliest phrases parents teach their children is “thank you”. In fact, it’s quite rude to go...

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Becoming more Agile

Agile software development is a set of values and principles for building software faster and more reliably. In the late 1990s, several groups of software developers created methodologies for building...

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Astrid for Daily Habits

Many of you have habits you want to build. It could be flossing daily, or updating your blog, or reflecting on your week. The problem is, it’s hard to remember week-in and week-out to do those things....

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Pete Carroll on Coaching and Motivation

“I know that I’ll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was...

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The truly creative mind

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an...

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The United States & Cyberwarfare

In an article by NY Times correspondent David Sanger, it was revealed that President Obama has been overseeing a new and unprecedented effort by the United States to engage in sustained cyberwarfare,...

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How I became a morning person

For the past two years, I’ve been keeping an entrepreneur’s schedule that includes going to bed around 3:30 AM and waking up some time between 11 AM and 1 PM. I was convinced that this made me the...

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Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters

A little poetry for your startup and your life. Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters by Portia Nelson: I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless....

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Analog Sunday, and other themed days

For the past several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with theming days. I first learned about the practice while following the Seattle Seahawks and hearing about days like “Competition Wednesday”,...

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Gandalf the Gray

You might know this blog as a blog about startups, or engineering, or productivity. All of this is true (and hopefully more of those blog posts coming soon) – but this blog is also part of the...

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Transitions

The Bridges Transition Model I’ve been reading a fantastic book called Transitions, by William Bridges. As I’ve been going, I made a list of all of the transitions in my life in the past year: Became...

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