Category: Advice

I have slowly over the last year and a half built up to the point where I run six miles four to five mornings each week. I typically wake up at around 6:40 am, drink two glasses of water, use the restroom, then head outside for my six mile run. My route takes me on Motor Ave under the 10 freeway and up into beautiful Cheviot Hills.… read more “Daily 6 Mile Runs”

Tracking your personal goals and measurements is vitally important to being successful. Each morning, I input the following into my spreadsheet:

1. Food
2. Learning topics
3. Workout
4. Work hours
5. How much I advanced Coalition
6. If I did a blog post
7. If I took a nap
8. What I’m grateful for
9. Bedtime
10. Happiness
11. Weight
12. and a couple of other items

It costs taxpayers between $300,000 to $500,000 per cadet we graduate from the military academies in the United States. Is this a worthwhile investment? Are officers in the military who graduate from Annapolis or West Point really vastly superior to officers who graduated from USC or Washington or Stanford? From the research I’ve done, officers coming from other sources do equally well to military academy graduates.… read more “Close the Military Academies”

Contingency / Emergency Planning

Why should we think about contingencies and emergencies? Why not just focus on positive, happy things and planning for a great life?

I agree that it is important to come up with a happy plan for our life and have an optimistic trajectory for our main course. Observation and experience though have shown that rarely do optimistic plans always go according to course.… read more “End of the World Planning”

Most people complain about their job, but it seems like having a job is pretty important to giving people meaning and purpose in their lives.

Going on vacation for a few days is a great feeling, but not having work on a daily basis longer than that is depressing. People who are long term unemployed or retired have much higher rates of depression than those who work.… read more “Work”

I had an error with the database on the web application for training the Coalition team today. I went through a million different possible solutions for three hours including looking into mysql caching and all sorts of other stuff before I went back and carefully read the error message. Turns out I had missed one letter from a table name.… read more “Always Carefully Read The Error Message”

I am the owner of a successful and profitable company with 60+ full time employees, am in good shape physically, and have maintained strong relationships with my family and friends. How have I been able to accomplish my goals? Through daily progress tracking on things that are most important to me. Here is a partial screenshot for the last view days:

I have been tracking in a spreadsheet on Google Docs my goals daily since January 11, 2012.… read more “Daily Tracking Of My Life Rockets Goals Ahead”

Sometimes people including myself find themselves asking “Why should I be grateful?”

I just finished reading a book, “The Forgotten Soldier”. It was an autobiography of a WW2 German soldier who fought the Russians on the eastern front. His story was a tale of 3 years of serious deprivation and horror. He watched the majority of his friends die, he froze sleeping outdoors in minus sixty degree temperatures, he starved as the Germans could not supply their troops, and he faced a constantly strengthening enemy gaining more and more troops / weapons / ammo while his side constantly weakened.… read more “Why Should I Be Grateful?”

As usual, this post, as with all posts on this blog, is completely my own personal opinion of the situation and facts.

Anyone who is considering working with Cher Park at Poprageous, please be WARNED about the following:

Cher Park at Poprageous contracted my firm to build her new website. We had successfully completed her first two milestones and Cher had praised the work we had done, when suddenly she had a change of her mind and did not want to continue with us.… read more “WARNING – Cher Park at Poprageous”

I really like Google Apps Scripts functionality in extending out the basic tools available in Google Sheets. I write functions pretty often to either have automatic emails sent or to gather specific data from other resources. I used it yesterday building a tool to see timestamps of sent emails that I send out. Pretty useful!