In the Hand of Dante

I found amazing camping spots out and about with Jackie. Really, really cool places. I discovered an entrepreneur’s spirit in me, and it wasn’t just because of the lifestyle design books that I enjoy. There’s some kind of DARK POWER that guides me through this world now. By “dark”, of course, I mean “light”. America! [...]

Quite a bit, actually. This year was funny in that way. I opened 2011 with money saved and no good ways to earn, so by the end of January I was a little tense from the work-search. On January 27th, two crazy, simultaneously-strugglesome-but-opportunityesque things happened. 1. My boss at The 1010 Project told me that [...]

Crush It – Gary Vaynerchuk (won it in a prize drawing and devoured it one sitting inside a tent at the edge of a large cliff) Four-Hour Body – Tim Ferriss (pre-ordered it because I’m a sucker – if Ferriss wrote a book about punctuation marks I’d buy it) Brewing Up A Business – Sam [...]

Most important meeting of 2011: Yet another version of Tim Brauhn – more on him later. This is definitely a post that I should move further down in December, since four of the most interesting meetings will happen after Christmas when I’m back home in Illinois. I have so many babies to meet. Five, to [...]

This year came in with a great WHOOSH. I was living with a little kitten named Jackie. Note: Jackie is actually a woman who I refer to as a kitten. She is also my girlfriend. I was hopeful, I suppose. I had money in the bank, but the consulting gig that had provided my income [...]

Gwen Bell said that she won’t be organizing Reverb11, but that we are indeed welcome to do it ourselves. “Fine!” I said. “I’ll go right ahead and do it, then.” And then I didn’t. Instead, I waited for Cali Harris (of the Formerly Reverberating Triad of Gwen, Cali, and Kaileen) to serendipitously tweet about how [...]