Category: Thoughts

62 Tips on Crushing Public Speaking

According to Warren Buffet, the one skill that raises your value by 50% is public speaking. This comes from the same man who signed up for public speaking class and then dropped out before attending a single class. And I can empathize. The scariest thing I did in 2016? Public speaking. Before we begin… Before…

March 1, 2017
Learning from terrible networking

After Tim Ferriss shared my article on Forbes and people came out of the woodwork to try to network with me, I thought I had seen every instance of terrible networking. I was wrong. One of these days I’m going to write a proper guide to networking, but let my latest experience with “bad networking”…

February 14, 2017
How I made my guest post a massive success [CASE STUDY]

I was so excited the first time I had a guest post go up. I could see it – the article would go up, people would read it, our work would be lauded, and voila – we would be swept up in the glitterati and the business would boom. The reality? The post went up,…

February 1, 2017
How I got 27 professional chefs & bakers to make cookies

I write this coming down from what can only be described as an epic sugar high. While few words are more abused than “epic,” it applies here, for this happened on Saturday: You are looking at the cookies for Chocolate Chip Cookie Off 2017 (henceforth: CCCO2017), the sequel to the original Chocolate Chip Cookie Off.…

January 19, 2017
The 2016 Annual Letter to the SJO Family

Few things are more critical for future success than taking a moment to pause and reflect on what happened. As such, I’m a big believer in taking a look back at the past year to learn what worked, what didn’t, to figure out what others did (to learn from their mistakes), and then modify your…

January 3, 2017