trying to win the internet.
We are moving. Again.
But, at least we’re staying in San Francisco and the Bay Area… as I love it here more than most of the places that I’ve lived. In fact, there’s only one place in the world that compares and that is Tokyo, Japan.
Some of us have lived long enough to begin to recognize the clear patterns in our lives.
In other words, we’ve understood that life is cyclical and that it tends to repeat itself and that, for whatever reason, our own lives seem to have distinct and specific and special patterns.
via Andy Grove’s, Only The Paranoid Survive:
The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.
Inspiration is for amateurs. Everyone else shows up to work. A professional has professional habits, which necessarily include showing up to work, especially when you don’t feel like it.
There will always be resistance, expect it. Don’t be so easily distracted, get it done. There’s no point in waiting for the muse.
Relationships are hard and our egos make building, maintaining them, and growing them very difficult.
In fact, most of the time we have all that we need to have very healthy and successful relationships but we self-sabotage our chances because of our pride, our ego, and even our own anxiety.
I’ve been spending a little bit more of my time working with my brother recently around his YouTube Channel and his new community site and what we’re looking at doing now is filling in the gaps of what we now understand as definitive needs within the community.
I’ve shared previously my history with alcohol and, more specifically, my really bad relationship with booze and I’m happy to say that I’ve continued to stay strong and haven’t had a drink since I quit cold-turkey late last year.
I’m very, very excited to celebrate the one year anniversary of one of the most significant decisions of my life and I know that I’m going to make it.
A challenging thing for any startup team to work and manage through is competition and the growing number of projects and companies that are competing directly in your space.
Or entering into it.
The internet is so entertaining… it allows you to encounter all sorts of people from every corner of the planet (or almost…).
Unfortunately, a lot of that engagement is more frustrating than fun which is why I’ve turned off a lot of my social media and even made one of the best decisions in my digital life to turn off comments on my blog.
There is a phenomena that all software programmers are aware of and have experienced which is the unexplainable behavior of software.
In other words, a ghost in the machine is something that we will say when we simply can’t explain a malfunction (or even something working properly!) related to something that we’ve created or something that someone else has written.