How a simple rule of delegation can allow you to grow your business.
It’s hard to delegate, even harder if you are a Type-A personality. It does not matter if you own your own business, manage a team of people, or simply are trying to have kids do chores, more often or not you find that people just do not do as good of a job as you.
If you are in one of these positions, your concerns are probably valid. After all, the mere fact that you are in a leadership position often is because you do things better…
A letter to my daughter in response to her struggling on a Math test yesterday.
Dear Daughter — I know you think failure is bad, but let me tell you a little secret. We all fail, a lot. If you don’t believe me…
I have tried to release several products that have done diddly squat in terms of users and revenues. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars doing this too. Some of them were complete and utter failures.
I’ve written articles that only one person has read and even on some of the ones that have taken off, your…
Why everyone is talking about NFTs and what they mean to you.
Everything involving investing and money seems to at best upside down, if not down-right scrambled. For a while, I envied art collectors because at least their world was pretty static. I often day-dream of going back and loading up on old baseball and football cards.
Not anymore. Thanks to something we call Non-fungible tokens (NFT).
The elevator pitch to what NFTs are, and more importantly, what they are used for, is that they represent proof-of-ownership of assets, both tangible and intangible. The current asset making the most waves right now, thanks to the world’s first major auction of a digital…
You cannot blame the fisherman for not bringing you fish.
I am currently living in the Houston, TX region and if you have been following the news, you likely can see what a debacle this week has been for the Texas region. As of writing this article, the power companies have made significant progress overnight and most Houston area homes are now up and running. This has been truly a challenging week so far for many, and it’s not over, but at least now there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel.
Over the next 6 months, there will be a lot of discussion on the effectiveness…
A business owner is like trying to catch a butterfly in a dark room full of mosquitos…naked…using a net with a hole in it.
You swing and you swing and you miss. You get bitten a bunch, in places that you shouldn’t. You will be full of bites and anytime anything touches you, you will forever be jumpy. Your skin will never be the same.
But, out of pure luck, one of your swings will catch one of those butterflies, or at least knock it unconscious with the rim of the net so it falls in. …
Technology stocks have experienced record growth in 2020 and two of my best investments (Amazon, AMZN, and Jumia, JMIA) have been excellent investments in the last 12 months (Jumia is up 400%+ in the last 12 months alone). If you were in Tesla early (I wasn’t), you saw an even more incredible run.
Most novice investors attributed this run of technology to everyone being remote but the deeper reason for this run of success by tech stocks is simply nothing else was worth investing in. With most consumer, retail, food, energy, and travel stocks being hammered by the pandemic, technology…
It’s always good to follow successful people, no matter how you define success. Success leaves clues and if you dig enough, you can use those clues to help you along the way. It’s not about following someone else’s journey or being someone else, it’s about borrowing their compass or hiking map to make sure you do not get lost. In some ways, I hope this newsletter helps people with that very thing.
One tool that I find is vastly under-utilized is the power of mobility or choice. In fact, I would argue that many of the truly successful (my definition…
From her book entitled For Small Creatures Such as We, the daughter of the famed astronomer and author Carl Sagan leaves us with a few lessons that would make her father proud.
It’s hard to overstate what Carl Sagan did for science. His individual contributions would have surely made for a successful career, but it’s the legacy he left behind that truly makes him unique and a gift to not only the science community but to anyone curious about the wonders of this world.
Science is very difficult to explain, and nearly impossible to do it in a way that is entertaining and enjoyable to the average reader. However, that is where Dr. …
2020 for me is going to be a heavy learning year for me, in so many parts of my life. In the early part of the year, I’ve dedicated myself to reading some non-fiction books directly aimed at some areas I would like to grow. Here are the first half books I have on my desk to read. (Note: this is in no particular order as I typically read more than one at a time)
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different (Chuck Palahniuk)
Who better to learn something about writing than the author of Fight Club?
Anyone with that level of genius has to help someone like me…
Simple questions to ask that can help you avoid a costly mistake in choosing the wrong type of solution for your current project.
Is the way you run your business different than most others in your industry?
This question is the #1 factor in determining whether or not you should use custom software.
If your business is very cookie cutter (one of a thousand just like it) and most of your peers are following the same processes, chances are there are Out-of-the-box (OOTB) software that has already been designed that you can utilize, for less money and headache that custom software. …
