Bury My Heart at Conference Room B was written by Stan Slap, of slap (company). Though a “New York Times Bestseller”, I hadn’t heard of this book or known of Stan’s work. I loved this book. I actually listened to it through Audible. I had the fortune of meeting Stan a couple weeks ago and talking about the concepts that are conveyed in the book and delivered through their services.
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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B – a book review
2011 – A Year of Loss – What I learned
I had many amazing experiences in 2011 including attending Burning Man for the first time, had a great time at Summit Series, spent a ton of time with my wife and kids (my top priority), spent lots of time with my parents, sold my company – Leverage Software, made new friends, deepened relationships, enjoyed Costa Rica with a great group of friends, had a great year professionally, started a new gig with an amazing company and people doing amazing stuff (more on that in a future post) and many other fantastic things. This post, however, is about the loss that I suffered with a focus on what I learned. Until 2011, I hadn’t lost anyone close to me in a tragic way and have always considered myself blessed in this way.
The Clean Program – day by day
Howdy all,
A bunch of you asked about the Clean Program, which is the cleanse that I’m doing, so here it is. First, you should know that I committed to doing this under the assumption that it was for seven days. A bunch of people from Summit Series were doing it so I figured “I’m not at the top of my fitness level and the Niners and Pats have a bye week so why not?” Well, it turns out that it lasts for an entire month which breaks down as follows. I simply committed before I read the program details and didn’t want to pull out of my commitment – so here I go. I’ll update this post daily to let you know what I’m missing (or not), how I’m feeling and tips if you decide to do it one day. The cost is about $500-600 but I got it for free as a Summit guy. Here’s the program.
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I lost a friend —– you can help
I lost a friend —– you can help.
Just short of two years ago I met Tom at USCF where our sons were playing soccer together. Tom is a charismatic, outgoing and conversational guy. We immediately connected on topics including work, kids, sports and the neighborhood. Tom and I live a block away from one another and both have very flexible work schedules. Along with having lots in common, these factors allowed us to spend lots of time together over the last two years. I suppose we spent an average of 4 days a week together having coffee, going for a walks or heading to the gym. Often, we would plan to go to the gym but would walk past it and continue to the Ferry Building so that we could continue our conversation or because it was just too nice out to be inside. Sharing a passion for starting companies, we actually worked on a project together helping a new company get off the ground. Tom excelled at what he did.
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Why Klout sucks but doesn’t have to
Klout sucks (as a scoring system, not as a company) for a few reasons but the primary reason that it sucks is that my score, as of writing, is 56 and Warren Buffett‘s score is 39; which is ridiculous from every viewpoint. In my view, that’s reason enough to question Klout but I’ll support my comment with additional reasons, and would love your feedback. There’s no way anyone would believe that I’m more influential than Warren Buffett on anything, ever – and if they did make that claim, I would dispute it with vigor.
Warren Buffet on Klout
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