Face Your Fears and Travel the World
Editor’s note: Originally published Jun 3, 2016. Podcast added August 2, 2017 with the first 16 minutes of the Face Fears and Travel talk at Hostelling International. The camera stopped …
10 Things to Do After You’re Fired
A friend recently emailed me after being fired and wanted my input on what to do. Below is part of the list that I emailed them. The actions are for …
Bad News About Bad Habits, Making a Mess and Doing
People want good news about bad habits Have you noticed how people tend to tiptoe around the root of a problem? Let’s think about our friend James. He is having trouble …
Set yourself free through your art
If a tree falls in the middle of the forest does anyone hear its sound? Unless your audiences is trees, no. Everyone is an artist the moment they create: the …
Q: What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?
Tristianne asked: “What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?” I’m not 100 on what the thesis of what my purpose is, but it looks like this: I want …
Writer’s block and finding inspiration.
A blank page is an intimidating invitation to create. Creation requires a change of state: potential to kinetic; white to black; nothing to something. A page filled with creation, change …
Workshops are for Crackheads
“Do, or do not. There is no try.” Master Yoda Oftentimes, workshops, webinars, training and certification programs are tries disguised as dos. While I personally am largely skeptical of any …
Audit Yourself
This weekend, starting right now, I will be auditing myself. And I invite to you to do the same with yourself. What do I mean by that? When I was …
Water World Friday
Water has been in the news this past week. Record rainfall along the west coast has tested aging infrastructure in regions experiencing record population growth. In Seattle, millions of gallons …
Unity Freestyle
Unity Freestyle Like MLK Jr and Malcolm X; Ghandi and Jesus, these are the people that brought the fight to unite. Come together through love, not fear. We are persuaded by …
3 Questions
timo’s note: podcast version added January 24, 2017. When I quit my corporate job to enter the startup world I knew that it would take grit. I knew that I would …
The #1 Killer of Americans
What is the #1 killer of Americans? Terrorists? Immigrants? Muslims? Donald Trump? The Clintons? The GOP? Black Lives Matter? The Russians? None of the statistics agree with any of these anxiety-ridden assumptions. …
The Friday Five – January 6, 2017
This was last week’s Friday Five I sent to the tribe and an example of what you can expect to receive from the man bun maestro. If you are interested in …
The Friday Five
This was the first Friday Five I sent to the tribe and an example of what you can expect to receive from yours truly. If you’re interested in receiving an email …
The Man in the Mirror: Social Justice’s Forgotten Hero
The social movements of today are missing a critical element that was core to every movement that’s ever cracked the foundations of injustice: Self Purification. Without self purification, we are …
#EndTheCommute
40 unpaid hours per month. Minimum. That’s the amount of time I spent commuting 13 miles to a computer. I was part of Microsoft’s shadow workforce of subhuman contractors. It …
Reactive Reptiles
James sits with his butthole clenched, teeth gritting and eye balls twitching. That stupid gorilla meme Sandy shared is the most xenophobic, misogynist, bigoted, racist thing since ET the Extra-Terrestrial. …
Getting to Zero – Erasing $55,000 of Debt in One Year
$55,000 stand between me and Zero. It’s a mountain composed of student loans, credit card debt, and buyer’s remorse. I’ve spoken about July 3rd, 2016 being an independence day in my life. …
Shoot For The Moon
Shoot For The Moon Shift from Consumption to Production The hype surrounding the launch of the next iPhone, Star Wars movie, or video game system used to make me feel …
Meditation on Change
What is Change? Change is transition. It is the arrival of the storm. It is a musical change in key. It is a waterfall connecting two channels. It is the …
Reframing The J-O-B Mentality
Reframing the J-O-B mentality Everyday, people complain about their job, their boss, or their coworker that smells like ancient narwhal musk who refuses to stay at home when they’re sick. …