Focus

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs all agree that the core element for success is focus. What is focus?

  • Focus is saying no to most things. It’s saying no to new business opportunities not in your core area, it is saying no to easy money in areas you think you can handle, it’s saying no so that you can say yes to core work that needs to be done.
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Rock climbing

I am going to go check out a new climbing gym near LAX today, Sender One’s second location. Max and I will do some leading on their super tall 80 foot walls. Hopefully our rope is long enough!

Climbing is a great sport. It’s very social, as half the time you are sitting around waiting for your arms to loosen up.… read more “Rock climbing”

CODE Book

I am reading Code by Charles Petzold right now. Really fascinating story of how computers work! It is not just dry technical information, Charles builds on each area really explaining and helping understand how everything works from core principles.

Copy Management System

I am building a programmatic copy management system. My team writes 500 pages of copy each month. A page of copy is a Microsoft Word document, single space, 12 point font with the entire page filled.

So we write a lot of copy.

We are planning on writing even more for our many clients in the future, so I am working with my strategists and admin team to figure this out.

Meetings

I have been having lots of meetings with a variety of partners lately. I have found it quite inspirational! Had talks about business with Levi, Dorothy, Jeremy, David P., my team members and many others!

Mad Work

I receive around 300 to 500 emails a day. Sometimes I feel like all I do is reply to emails. I have built a to do management application to make sure high priority stuff gets worked on first. I dislike it when email drives my priority list instead of what is truly important to get done.… read more “Mad Work”

Major Terror Attacks

As technology continues to advance at an exponentially increasing pace, mankind becomes more and more vulnerable to terrorist attacks by a single person or small group that has mass casualties numbering in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people and injured over 600 people acting on his own beliefs that the US government was a bully taking people’s freedoms.… read more “Major Terror Attacks”