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Hi. My name is Adam. I am the co-founder of Pure Adapt, Inc in Albany, NY. We own Detailed Image, LockerPulse, and a bunch of other websites. I write about our company, entrepreneurship in general, work-life balance, and whatever else interests me.
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Category Archives: Motivation
Just Having Fun
Kind of a random quick spontaneous post here. This past week has been the most fun I’ve ever had running a business. Part of it is seeing the positive results of what we’ve done. We’ve accomplished everything as a team, and accomplishments are always better when you have people to share them with…especially when you all went through the ups and downs together. Even more so though, I think it’s the infinite potential that I see now, both for DI and other upcoming projects. It’s just so much fun waking up every day. I find myself still working long hours, … Continue reading
Consistency = Success = Happiness?
This past week I noticed that the gym was noticeably emptier. In fact, it’s been getting less and less crowded every week for the past month or so. This is perfectly normal, because it’s March, and March is just about when everyone who made a New Year’s Resolution to get in shape is starting to give up. Especially the people who go early in the morning like I do. They slip back into their bad old habits and find ways to justify doing other things with their time (or more likely, sleeping an extra hour…which isn’t bad, but you could … Continue reading
There’s No Replacement for Hard Work
Mark Cuban is doing something awesome. He started The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan – Open Source Funding, where he has decided to help stimulate the economy by investing in ideas and companies that he believes in. He’s still accepting requests via comments on that original post (almost 2k comments and counting!), but today he unveiled some of the first companies that are getting money from him. While I LOVE the idea and hope to someday be able to emulate it myself, I found the first part of his post today more interesting. He mentions that he’s learned 2 things by … Continue reading
Accomplishing a Daunting Task
Our ’09 goal to revamp our e-commerce platform and build what we consider to be the all around best e-commerce platform on the web is obviously not an easy one. In fact, it’s a really really challenging goal. Most notably, because of our lack of resources available (money, people, time, etc). It truly is a daunting task. When I wrote the post outlining this goal a few weeks back, we hadn’t yet started on developing the project. We’d meticulously studied the best shopping experiences on the web and defined what we wanted ours to be, but we hadn’t actually begun … Continue reading
13 Ways to Find More Time in ’09
A while back a friend of mine asked me “how do you do it all?” I kind of looked at him perplexed. “All of the websites, your blog, reading books and blogs, getting to the gym on a routine basis, spending time with friends and family, etc.” Not knowing how to reply, I just said “Umm. I watch a lot less crappy network television than most people.” Really though, I didn’t have an answer for him. But I thought about it more, and realized that one of my best strengths is getting things done. We all have the same 24 … Continue reading
Prioritizing Work – Part Deux
Oke from Life is What You Make of It (one of my favorite blog designs, by the way) left a really interesting comment on my last post about prioritizing work: I got a question for you. I am having a problem with this myself and do a shitty job on getting back on track. How do you prioritize your work/hobby/activities on the side when none of the tasks deal with making money? I’ve been thinking about that for a while, and decided it warranted it’s own post. In many cases, prioritizing the work isn’t the hardest part. It’s figuring out … Continue reading
How to Invest $15
Seriously. I see these little cards every month and think to myself “what a steal”. One of the best uses for your money is investing in your own personal development. Reading offers the most bang for your buck – you can literally learn anything you want by picking up a book. Back in January I wrote a post entitled What I Read. The list has changed a bit since then, but the overall goal hasn’t changed – read a whole lot each and every day because I never know when I’m going to stumble upon something that will change the … Continue reading
More on College as a Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE)
I’ve referenced Tim Ferris’ awesome blog post about Best Buy’s Results-Only-Work-Environment before, but it bears quoting again: ROWE stands for Results-Only Work Environment. In a ROWE, each person is free to do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. Currently, there are two authentic ROWEs—Fortune 100 retailer Best Buy Co, Inc. and J. A. Counter & Associates, a small brokerage firm in New Richmond, WI. At both organizations, the old rules that govern a traditional work environment—core hours, “face time,” pointless meetings, etc.—have been replaced by one rule: focus only on results. In the … Continue reading
Bootstrap Yourself
While we’re on the topic of Mark Cuban posts, there was something else I wanted to comment on from that same post. As he often does, he included a “classic” Mark Cuban post at the bottom of his current post. In this case it was a post from earlier this year entitled The Best Equity is Sweat Equity: There are only two reasonable sources of capital for startup entrepreneurs, your own pocket and your customers pockets. I personally would never even take money from a family member. Could you imagine the eternal grief and guilt from your mom, dad, uncle … Continue reading
Building Something
I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about his job hunt. It’s not that he doesn’t like his current job per-se, but that he feels like it isn’t offering any growth opportunities – financially or otherwise. We discussed how frustrating it is to go to a job every day and feel like you aren’t accomplishing anything important. I know the feeling. I felt it at my job, and by all normal measures I had a very good job. Unfortunately, my advice in situations like these isn’t always the best. I can’t just say “do what I … Continue reading