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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/

​http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/before-you-spend-26000-on-weight-loss-surgery-do-this.html

One thing I have noticed is that my motivation (and stress) seems to really ramp up during the fall and winter. Summer is a bit more relaxed. I can feel my fall time drive starting to really kick in! Working late and working every weekend as usual.

When I become stressed out, I really struggle with treating people as well as I want to treat them. If I am angry, frustrated, or stressed I don’t have patience and I don’t work with people in the best way.

I need to be more conscientious that I am not the only one who struggles sometimes and even when I have a tough time, I need to work to treat other people well.… read more “Kindness”

I spent my weekend building a new time report for my team that I called the “NA Report”. I still need to set up unit testing for it though before I take it live.

 

It will be another busy weekend for me! This morning I am doing some planning for Coalition and hope to get a little bit of programming done on my tools. At 2, I will go rock climb at Cliffs of Id with my friend Scott then at 6 my wife’s grandpa has his birthday in Pasadena.… read more “Weekend Priorities”