“I liked your Medium post on tiny houses, but why are you wasting time there and not writing on your blogs?” A friend asked me this, and I realized how weird it probably looks. On the surface, there is no obvious value to my bottom line. I don’t have many…

Being an expert in your field should be your goal. Becoming an expert is a byproduct of years of dedication, commitment, application, and mistakes. *What defines an expert is up for interpretation. …

Storytime… Growing up, my friends and I were really into skateboarding. During the summers and weekends, we’d wake up and skate. …

There are tons of “funny tax quotes” that ping around across the internet around tax season. Most of them are bull crap, devoid of context, and are little more than political grifting wrapped with a bow of humor. I’m looking at you, Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan… I’m tired of…

Entrepreneurship has been one of the great joys of my life. In a world where nearly 50% of people report dissatisfaction with their jobs, I’m extremely thankful that I enjoy what I do. Some things stand out as abnormally gratifying, though. Here are 10 of them. Note: I do not…

One of my favorite parts about being a blogger in the productivity space is that I get to test out all the fancy new gadgets and write them off as business expenses. :) Here are things that I bought over the years that I think are worth mentioning. #1 Gravity Blanket (Any Weighted Blanket) I know…

AI design is cool but far enough from being perfect that it’s not ready for mass adoption. Creating this image in Jasper Art of a post-apocalyptic squirrel was fun, but I’m not going to use it for anything beyond generating a half-hearted nose-exhale laugh as I sit here in my…

The skyscraper approach (or skyscraper technique) has been a bedrock of content creation for years. Long before it had a name, people were doing it. Every generic business book after “Think and Grow Rich” used this approach in some way (whether or not they were aware). The method is simple. …

Email marketing has been the foundation of my internet business success for my entire career. Testing the effectiveness of new strategies and regularly assessing the effectiveness of my old strategies (to ensure they are still working) is paramount to my business.