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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”

Travelling can be tough because it pulls me out of my healthy habits. Thankfully, I don’t have any more travel planned till Christmas time. I like to get my healthy habits going like:

• Going to bed early
• Running or going to the gym
• Working on my programming
• Working on improving Coalition
• Talking to family and friends

 

I am thinking about this idea for my team members:

Available only for critical employees

Based on annual revenue – if the company earns $1m a year today and $10m a year in 5 years, that is a 10x increase to the bonus
If employee leaves (resignation or termination) prior to vesting date, no bonus will be paid out
Once the bonus is vested, the employee can cash out when they please.… read more “Phantom Stock Idea”

 

Laurel and I are going to drive to Phoenix tonight to visit Grandma Gross. We will pick Grandma up tomorrow and then drive to Aunt Crystal’s cabin about two hours north. Then we will drive all the way back on Monday. So much driving.

A great danger to any business is when a client asks for one-off services outside of what you routinely do.

For example, we recently brought on a SEO client who wants us to help optimize his site for Italian keywords.  This led to our recruiting team trying to find an Italian speaking writer.

Distractions like this are very dangerous to a business because your core work doesn’t get the attention it should.… read more “Focus”

One thing I have discovered the hard way is that you can’t change people. If you try, you will just get frustrated but won’t get anywhere. If someone causes trouble for you, don’t keep them in  your life. If you do want to keep people in your life,  you have to accept them as they are.

My smartphone has turned into a huge mind trap for me. This morning, I was intending on working on refactoring Scoretask after my run. Instead, I ended up reading article after article on Nytimes, hacker news, financial times, reddit, etc. Pretty soon 3 hours had passed and my eyes were blurry and I had not done anything.… read more “Mind Traps”

Today I have been working on refactoring the code I wrote for Scoretask so that I can use phpunit to test it. Haven’t gotten anywhere so far because I am not sure where to start.