Year: 2017

I LOVE year-end summaries/”lessons learned” posts… Reflecting on how far you’ve come and possibly what you’ve changed your opinions on? The best. Working on mine for 2017. If you have one of your own (or come across a great one), drop it below. UPDATE – my 2017 Annual Letter to the SJO Family.

With many people looking back and planning for the future, I want to delve into something that’s been at the top of my mind… One of my (privet) goals for this 2017 was to donate more – time, effort, energy, expertise, and money. One of the big inspirations behind that was Floyd Marinescu. We had…

Simple rule: check someone’s social media before you message them. Get some context.

Honestly – I really enjoyed the latest Star Wars. It was both familiar and novel, and I think I enjoyed the metaness of it. Slightly spoilerish: WITH THAT SAID… it was also a great case study on TERRIBLE COMMUNICATION between team members. So much could have been avoided with a bit of exposition between teammates.

Had a delicious meal recently with some lovely human beings, and we were talking about how we’re driven to be better. Better at all things – as entrepreneurs, as partners, as humans. But there was also cognizance that we can get LOST in this desire to be better. It’s easy to make fun of people…