A Fun Exercise

A Fun Exercise

Look over your to-do list and pick a task that you’ve procrastinated on for a particularly long time. Spend the next 15 minutes working on that task with focus, but without an expectation of completion. Tell me about your experience in the comments below. Yes, as one...
Where Does Your Energy Come From?

Where Does Your Energy Come From?

I’m excited for the Energy Marketing Conference in Houston in a few weeks. Tom Brady seemed to enjoy his visit to Houston and I expect to have the same experience he did! At the last few conferences, there has been a very consistent theme: people know very little...
In Defense of Return of the Jedi

In Defense of Return of the Jedi

False equivalency is a serious danger to reasonable debate. Wait, wait! This isn’t another rant about the U.S. Presidential Election. No, my concern is something more impactful to our democracy, our society, and our culture: ranking the Star Wars films. Like many of...
Mo Progress Mo Problems

Mo Progress Mo Problems

Progress is linear, right? The next version of product X is going to be better than the last version of product X. It’s going to have more features, AND fix all of those annoying bugs, AND it’s going to feel like it’s moving in the right direction. Same thing with...
In Honor of the Primaries…

In Honor of the Primaries…

It’s been a while since I published a blog entry. I have a few in various stages of drafting, but I need a push to get at least one of them out the door. So, rather than wait, please help me by voting on one of these topics. I promise to publish by the end of next...