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”
I love this quote – “I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
I forget this sometimes. I get impatience, frustrated, or angry and then don’t treat those around me well. … read more “I Shall Pass This Way But Once”
I went rock climbing this weekend in Bishop with the Paradiso CrossFit crew. Good to see everyone and hang out. I rode with Matt and Max, really happy was I was able to get to know them better.
As someone who has been involved in technology for decades, I have been saying for a long time that our technological evolution has far outstripped our social evolution. Technology continues to empower individuals at an exponential rate. These drones are easily affordable to individuals. It doesn’t take much imagination to weaponize them; especially, when we already have military grade drones in operation serving as examples.… read more “Great Internet Comment”
I have yet to be able to find a good copy management software platform, so I am just going to build my own. Currently, Coalition is producing 600+ pages of high quality, unique, search optimized copy each month. We manage all of it through spreadsheets and do so fairly efficiently, however as I see the company continue to grow I think that the spreadsheets will eventually break down.… read more “Copy Management Software”
Building systems for a business is a lot like scientific knowledge. In science, you are constantly researching and trying to think of new good ideas and frameworks to test. Maybe you start out in biology and increase your knowledge there, but chemistry and physics remain at zero until you get around to learning and growing these areas.… read more “Systems Building”
Google’s recent design changes to the Google Drive / Docs / Sheets have generally made each product more difficult to use. Now they have added insult to injury with the rebranding of Google Apps to G Suite. Google Apps is a great name that specifies exactly what the product does – provide apps for your business.… read more “G Suite Rebrand is Ridiculous”
Coalition has been in business for over 7 years now and tonight I am taking the team out to happy hour to celebrate. Building this company has been the largest project of my life so far. I work on it most days including weekends. Lots of days I put in 11-14 hours. I have dealt with many nightmares (lawsuits, bad employees, bad clients), as well as celebrated many successes (over 70 full time team members now, romylms.com… read more “7 Years”
I saw a photo of a female CEO in the news today and she looked like a clown. Bright red lips, purple eye makeup. The weird thing is I just thought that was normal at first till I thought about it more.
Half our population is expected to cover their faces in pastes and ooze and powder, supposedly so that they can appear more attractive to the other half.… read more “Makeup is Sexist”
Laurel came up with an amazing dish for me I have been eating every weekend for a weeks now. It is simply watermelon chopped up into pieces with Trader Joe’s Chile Lime Seasoning Blend sprinkled on top. So tasty!