Inspiration
I really enjoyed Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Great read. Born to Run is a book about the Tarahumara people of the rugged canyon country of Northern Mexico. But it’s also a book about history, business, nutrition, biology, evolution, individualism and community, [...]
When I was a kid, we had lots of art supplies — crayons, markers, colored pencils, water color paints, even pastels — and the holy grail of elementary school drawing: Mr. Sketch scented markers. Unfortunately I never wanted to use them for fear they’d run out of ink. Yeah I clearly had some issues. Well [...]
It was the summer of 2005. I can’t remember the exact text message my friend sent me, but it was something along the lines of: “Up $5k for the month.” What?! I knew immediately what he was talking about: affiliate marketing. Here I was having just moved all the way across the country to start [...]
I really liked The Geography of Bliss. It probably helped that I read it in my personal version of paradise, poolside at the Hilton Los Cabos. In the book, the narrator travels the globe in search of the secrets to happiness. (Strangely absent: the “happiest place on earth.”) The journey is both serious and funny, [...]
I think this is a cute story, and appropriate this week after Ford’s $1 billion Q3 profit. Nice job guys! Over 100 years ago, Henry Ford was tinkering in the shed out behind his house. He was building his first car. But when he finished, he realized he’d made one critical mistake: it was too [...]
Traditional means of motivation in the workplace (rewards, incentives, commissions), sometimes do more harm than good. In this video, Dan Pink makes the case that for the complex tasks faced by today’s workforce, “intrinsic” motivators — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — are far more effective than the traditional “carrot-and-stick” methods. It’s kind of long, but [...]
