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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Work Ethic’ Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Growth and Time Management
If last year I started a project like this SportsLizard revamp that I’m working on now, it would have gone a lot differently. For one, it would have been programmed a lot worse and probably taken twice as many hours of work to get the same result. In my head I think that and say [...]
What I Do on the Weekend
No question the most interesting statement from the interview I posted earlier today with Jun Loayza was when he said: “As a young entrepreneur, you will have NO work/life balance. I am very serious about this. If you want to succeed, you need to be working 24/7 every day of the week.” That’s why I [...]
You Don’t Have to Worry About That!
Anyone who owns a business like ours has been there. You’ve just met a new group of people and they casually ask what you do for a living. You give one of a variety of answers, based upon how web-savvy the crowd is and how interested you are in talking about your business at the [...]
Productive Output Update
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my productive output post where I declared that I would never work more than 35 hours in a week again (see Productive Output: What the 9-5 Misses and Why I’m Done with a 40 Hour Workweek). It was only two months ago, but a lot has changed since [...]
