Riverside Quarry

I had an idea that it would be interesting to try to buy the Riverside Quarry and turn it into an adult outdoor amusement park. The biggest issue would be liability I think.

Activities that could be offered:

  • Rock climbing (clean up the wall a bit more and make sure all the bolts are safe)
  • Dirt biking / ATV rentals
  • Paintball (have an enclosing fence to prevent balls from flying off)
  • Golf driving range?
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What is something you’ve done unexpectedly that made you a lot of money?

Nine years ago, I ran a small online shop selling digital automotive gauges called digital-auto-gauges.com. The store wasn’t very successful but I think it had around $20,000 per year in revenue and $4,000 in profit. It took a ton of time to run and I probably only made a few dollars per hour on it after splitting that with my business partner Josh (who now owns his own successful dentistry practice).… read more “What is something you’ve done unexpectedly that made you a lot of money?”

Watching Football is Unethical

What?!?!?!?

Heresy… how can watching football be unethical?

I love watching football and played my senior year of high school (mostly warming the bench). Watching Seattle’s Superbowl victories was thrilling and a great bonding experience with friends.

However, the research shows extremely clearly that football damages the brains of basically all players. The NY Times published an article showing that of 111 NFL brains studied, 110 brains had CTE – a degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.… read more “Watching Football is Unethical”

AT&T Business Fiber Down AGAIN!

AT&T Business Fiber had yet another outage again today, with 3 hours of downtime in my region in Culver City. I would highly recommend against anyone ever doing business with AT&T. Probably the worst vendor I’ve ever worked with.

Zayo is getting their fiber installed tomorrow morning, thank god.

Very Productive Weekend

I was able to work all day yesterday and also got my best 4 mile run of this year in. Made a lot of progress on bugs with our recruiting system. Went climbing this morning with David Paradiso, which was also really fun. Going to take a nap now and then get back to work. Haven’t had a drink in 3 weeks which I am also proud of.

Restructuring Coalition To Grow

I have been doing a ton of work lately to restructure Coalition so we can grow to a 1,000+ clients and a 1,000+ full time team members, including:

  • Moving Jordan to COO
  • Planning the promotions of others to fill critical positions
  • Redeveloping Scoretask’s navigation to link to all important company documents
  • Building on new Scoretask modules to support our work

Bestemor’s Eye

My grandma woke up a couple of days ago totally blind in her right eye. When my grandfather got up from bed, he found her sitting her chair. She told him, “I need you to take me to the doctor, I can’t see anything out of my right eye”. He took her to their prescheduled primary care doctor’s appointment, who immediately sent them to a retina specialist.… read more “Bestemor’s Eye”

AT&T Small Business Fiber SCAM!

I strongly recommend against any business getting AT&T shared fiber. I was told by the salesperson when I signed up for a 200 MB up & down connection that it would be amply enough to support my office of 25 people. However, the ONLY router you can use is a consumer grade router that basically will only support 2500 NAT… which works out to about 3-5 people.… read more “AT&T Small Business Fiber SCAM!”