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I built a platform to help give more consistent and structured feedback to my employees called Scoretask. I have not worked on the code in several months, and now I am trying to get started again. My code is fairly confusing and is taking me awhile to deciphere it. I want to do a better job of organizing my php code this time so that when I have a developer come in to work on it they don’t hate me quite as much.… read more “Scoretask”

Is it reasonable to expect significant improvements in physical fitness past the age of 32? I am not sure, but I am going to try. My goals are to do 50 straight pushups, run 4 miles at a 7:45 pace, weigh under 190 and climb 5.13.

I have not had much motivation lately to fix Scoretask. I need to build up some momentum again to get stuff like that fixed.

After Laurel and I visited Portland for Jordan’s wedding, we watched a few episodes of the Portlandia television show on Netflix. Pretty funny, but it does wear out after a few episodes.

The goal of my investment principles is to maximize the value of my investments over my lifetime. I want a high return with low risk.

Here they are in their current form in order of priority:

1. Seek companies that I believe have a high probability of long term (10+ years) success
2. The most successful companies are run by their founders on a day to day basis.

… read more “My Investment Principles”

For a long time, capacity has been one of Coalition’s greatest limiting factors. I built a new recruiting system though that has helped us exponentially increase our ability to hire new folks. Now, it is making hiring new people on much easier. I am actually preparing to send out 17 offer letters today! I hope to have about 8 of those people accept the offers and maybe 5-6 work out to be great team members.… read more “17 Offers”

I am currently very confused about what is going on in the global economy. Interest rates are negative, most assets seem to be in a bubble… very confusing as to where to invest.

Great book on addiction.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly