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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: Work Ethic
The Common Sense Check
In the first two years of any engineering degree you generally take all of the same classes as any other student at any other engineering school in the country. You take your Physics, your Chemistry, your Calculus and Differential Equations, and your Statics and Dynamics. Engineering Dynamics is generally considered one of the hardest classes at RPI. The professor was not my favorite professor. The material was difficult and explained poorly. I know a lot of people who went to the local community college to take the class over the summer. Despite the extra expense, they found it worth it … Continue reading
Misc Entrepreneurship Ramblings
I always jot down notes when I get the idea for a new post. This week I’ve had quite a few ideas, none of which are enough for a full post really. Too big for Twitter. Too tiny for a full blog post. — Two final thoughts on funding your first business and generating your first cash flow. I just got my Inc. Magazine in the mail the other day. The cover story is titled “How to Build Your Dream Company: Here’s how 10 savvy entrepreneurs got their dream companies up and running – and how you can do the … 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
Trimming the Fat
Since we made the decision last week to launch our revamped Detailed Image by early April, I have been programming my brains out. I’ve probably worked more hours in the last two weeks than I have in any two week stretch since 2007. While there’s definitely some stress involved with that, there is also a really good by-product of doing it: being busy forces me to trim out all of the unimportant stuff that I spend my time on. I’ve cut the number of feeds in my feed reader in half, stopped playing video games or reading books, have been … 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
Why I’m Now Super Productive at Starbucks
When I participated in the One Laptop Per Child’s Give One, Get One Program back in December 2007, they gave us one year of free T-Mobile hotspot access in addition to the computers. I was super psyched because, at that time, a T-Mobile subscription was the only way to access the web at Starbucks. Up until then I was limited to a handful of coffee shops in the area that had free wi-fi, but when you threw Starbucks into the mix there were hundreds of options within a half hour drive. I still find it refreshing to get out of … 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
A Wacky End to ’08
It was New Year’s Eve. Mike, George, and I would normally be out at a party, but because we were all sick and the weather sucked, we all were home resting. Around 8 PM I woke up from a nap and made my way over to my computer to read my feeds, when I noticed all of our sites were down. Not “down” per se, but all had a 500 Internal Server Error like the one below from the Pure Adapt site: Now, I’ve seen this plenty of times, but never on ALL the sites at once. Usually it’s while … 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