Four and three and two and one (What up!)
When Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock first organized as the Beastie Boys, they were among the hardest of the hardcore in 1979. Rather than abandon their sound for their love of rap music, they made music history by changing the scene instead of themselves. As it turned out, they could do both. At the same time.
If only it were that easy for the rest of us… Continue reading
Since starting this blog last year, I’ve written about my job twice. There’s a reason for that, and it’s probably not what you think.
I’m not holding back here because I feel like I should save my material for paid work. Well, that’s not the biggest reason…
Earth Day was last week and I didn’t do a damn thing on here for it. I owe you an explanation… Continue reading
Once upon a time, I had a dream to build a particular type of business and it totally blew up in my face. I have a mentor to thank for that. And yes, I really mean it. I thank him all the time… Continue reading
I write this post with a heavy heart. There is so much sadness in the world right now with tragedies multiplying by the day. Of course, my topic has nothing to do with those catastrophes. Mine has to do with sex.
For months now, I’ve been working on a covert project that consumed countless hours of my “spare” time. Although I’m quite successful in my current career, I had hoped to augment my income through a new product that would help people enrich their sex lives.
After an exhaustive amount of research and market testing, I knew this was poised to be a huge success. However, instead of approaching this with excitement, I found myself merely going through the motions of building this product, continually plagued with internal resistance.
Like many entrepreneurs would, I passed it off as fear… Continue reading