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Contracts
Contracts are scary business. Usually a business’s default contract is strongly favorable to them and it can be hard on the relationship to push for tons of changes. I was sent a subcontractor contract today that just made no sense, so I sent back my default contract instead along with a big list of changes they would have to rewrite into their contract if they wished to work with me.… read more “Contracts”
Secret to Happiness
I try to track my happiness along with a number of variables every single day in my spreadsheet. So far, I have found a few things that can dramatically improve my daily mood:
- Most important is social contact. I have a habit now of calling either a family member or friend both on my way to work and my way home.
Depression / Gratitude
Science shows that writing down what your grateful for can help combat depression and increase happiness. It has worked for me for sure! Every day I write down one thing I am grateful for. See my list recently:
| Relaxing honeymoon day |
| Happy life |
| Good honeymoon |
| Visiting grandparents |
| My family |
| Jimmy running with laurel and i, grandpa and bestemor |
| Healthy life with laurel |
| Nice family visit |
| Able to work from home when sick |
| Laurel is great |
| Things to do |
| Its the weekend |
| Laurel is best wifey ever |
| Back in the office |
| Freedom to structure my days |
| Great CT team right now |
| Sleep |
| Healthy lifestyle |
| Going to portland on wednesday |
| Back in my routine tomorrow |
| Home sweet home |
| Top ranked for everything |
| Laurel is an awesome wife |
| Not in debt |
| Security |
| I have a good brain |
| Healthy diet |
| Very happy, perfect life now |
| Choose my own schedule |
| I am proud of what i do |
| No hangover, i feel great |
| Lots of free time |
| Flexible schedule |
| Fun man date with jeremy |
| Laurel being reasonable and open to change |
| Visiting grandma gross this weekend |
| Back home |
| Driving purpose to my life |
| Great friends like Victoria and Jeremy |
| Laurels family here in LA |
| Laurel great wife |
| Romy is actually solid |
| No lawsuits of big size going on |
| I drink less usually nowadays |
| Generally good health |
| Business is super good |
| treadmill desk |
| Kickoff call a day this week |
| Fun rock climbing with scott b yesterday |
| Renewed motivation this time of year |
| I am not crazy like everyone else lol |
| Fun weekend with friends (jeremy bbq, scott’s gf mel bday) |
| More social contact lately due to my regular morning and evening calls |
| Productive week |
| Fun purposes to work on |
| Bishop trip this weekend |
| Excited about bishop in 2 days |
| Done with work for the week! |
Crushing Grip
I should be a politician as rock climbing has really helped strengthen my handshake grip. I can impress all the yokels with a firm, manly handshake.
That’s the extent of my claim to fame.
New Joelx.com Upgrade
I have decided to simplify my blog greatly. I have moved blog.joelx.com directly onto joelx.com and moved the old seo / web design site to http://seo.joelx.com/. Still working to get the proper 301 redirects in place with Aman. I also changed to a super simple theme that is pretty minimalist and also activated AMP for mobile pages.
Education system
Why do we stick with the technology of two hundred years ago in education? Back then, our cutting edge technologies were the printing press manufacturing expensive textbooks and other human beings repeating themselves over and over again to small groups of students.
Why do we still have millions of teachers and billions upon billions of dollars in textbooks and other physical infrastructure?… read more “Education system”
Los Angeles Sunrise from my Apartment
My Best Friend
I am very fortunate in that I have had the same best friend for my entire life – my brother Jordan. From the time we were very little we played and fought and worked together. We are only 18 months apart in age and Jordan was always only a grade under me so we were very close.… read more “My Best Friend”
Working Weekends And Loving It
I work most weekends on Coalition and I love it. It’s time when I get all day uninterrupted to focus in and make improvements to the business.
This last weekend I spent 14 hours on Saturday trying to learn about websockets and get them set up on Scoretask. Unfortunately, this was a failure, but it did lead me to upgrade to the latest version (5.3) of Laravel. … read more “Working Weekends And Loving It”