Category: Joel

In one of the lowest scoring games of the year, Coalition’s basketball team won in double overtime. The first quarter ended at 2-2, there was no scoring in the first overtime and we scored the only basket in second overtime to win it. I think the game was 26-24 at the end.

A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do  for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.

Here is a list of some of my friends professions:

• Law firm owner
• High end design firm owner
• Tutoring firm owner
• Google account executive
• Finance professional
• Hippy semi-pro skier
• Struggling Actor
• Waitress
• Maid service owner
• International business consultant
• Iranian pastry shop owners son
• CFO / accountant
• COO / recruiter
• Sales Director
• Drunk oil rigger worker
• Aerospace engineer
• F-16 Fighter pilot
• Dentist
• Affiliate website entrepreneur
• Financial marketing exec
• Nursing services firm owners son

Who are your friends and what are their professions?… read more “What Are Your Friends Professions?”

I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.

A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself.  An example of this would be:

def factorial(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return n * factorial(n - 1)

Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.

 

 

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I will be traveling to Chile and Argentina during the month of March to look at opening a new office down there. I will be in and out of touch during this time, but all of my team will still be here working if you need assistance with something.

I really enjoy rock climbing in Malibu Creek. I have been there a couple of times now and just went on Sunday with a guy I had just met at Rockreation Climbing Gym.  He brought a couple of his buddies too so the four of us went out there and had a full day of rock climbing.… read more “Malibu Creek Rock Climbing”

Before I started my own company, I was extraordinarily confident in all of my abilities. I firmly believed in my superior skills in almost all areas. What was this belief based on? Not an awful lot – working for someone else in a narrowly defined job position, breezing through college as a finance major at UW, and not having really felt challenged previously.… read more “Why Being a Entrepreneur is Ego Deflating”