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I spent a good amount of time last weekend and a few hours yesterday building a tool that automatically imports TimeDoctor worklogs and parses them into Quickbooks Online Time Tracker. My team seems pretty happy to have a tool to do this as it eliminates the redundancies of entering time in both systems. Nice win!

I have taken a week off of running so far due to the knee pain I have had. I think it is an IT band issue. May need another week or two off. I am still climbing pretty tough though as that seems to put a bit less stress on the knee.

​As the CEO of a much smaller business, I completely agree that the management team of Wells Fargo is guilty of creating the policies that led to this widespread scamming of customers. As a Wells Fargo business customer, I also experienced their reps trying to push sketchy accounts and sales on me. I would love to switch banks, but we have hundreds of outside accounts (customers, employees, vendors, other accounts payable) linked in to Wells Fargo.… read more “Leaving Wells Fargo”

I have had some pain in the outside of my right knee for a few weeks now. It got especially bad over the weekend, so I have stopped running for now. I am hoping it is just an IT band issue that with some rest and added stretching / strengthening gets better. Did some research on it and have been doing some little strengthening things.

Football viewing is much better done at home on a big screen than in person where you can’t see anything and don’t have instant replay or good snacks or comfort.

• Time with my wife
• Visiting friends
• Family visits
• Rocket league
• Reading
• Programming
• Building Coalition
• Sleep
• Good food

 

This guy’s got a giant loud speaker and is damaging peoples ears. There has to be a line on where free speech damages peoples ears who don’t want to listen.

I think collections is one of the most unpleasant aspects of owning a business. Very frustrating when people refuse to pay even though they acknowledge that they should. I try as much as possible to collect upfront to avoid the headaches of fighting for what we’ve earned later.  I wish there was an easier mechanism for managing this… I have thought about using escrow for all payments but I think that takes another 2-3% bite out of revenue.

​Americans are only starting new businesses at half the rate of the 80s. More people would start businesses if regulatory burdens (biz licenses costs $800 per year in CA, healthcare and many industries artificially limit new competitors). http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/st-louis-is-the-new-startup-frontier/