I would really like to build a community of people who get along well and live a bit more like our tribal ancestors.
Our modern society glorifies individualism and encourages isolation from others. Laurel and I’s closest family member is a 45 minute drive away and most are hours away. Our closest friend is 15 minutes away and most are much further.… read more “Tribe”
I have spent most of the last four years working in Operations Management for Coalition. Basically, I am trying to make sure that all of the promises we make to our clients are fulfilled. The single biggest area for me for a long time was recruiting. Recruiting continues to be a major time commitment for me most workdays.… read more “Operations Management”
Estate taxes are the taxes the government places upon a person’s wealth after their death and before their decedents inherit it. I suggest that we increase estate taxes to 100%.
My grandparents are fairly wealthy and I stand to gain a substantial inheritance when they pass away. Why would someone like me who stands to gain significantly from lower estate taxes suggest abolishing inheritance and increasing estate taxes to 100%?… read more “Inheritance Is Evil And Should Be Abolished”
I have had about 19,000 applicants apply to work at Coalition over the last year. About half of that number have taken my skills test. We have hired probably 70-80 people. I think we have one of the most stringent and effective recruiting processes of any company I have seen; certainly far superior to traditional outsourced recruiting.… read more “Hiring”
Contracts are scary business. Usually a business’s default contract is strongly favorable to them and it can be hard on the relationship to push for tons of changes. I was sent a subcontractor contract today that just made no sense, so I sent back my default contract instead along with a big list of changes they would have to rewrite into their contract if they wished to work with me.… read more “Contracts”
I really like this cheese named Delice De Bourgogne. As a matter of fact, I am sitting at my desk at work eating a block of it with a knife. Very good stuff. Very filling. Lots of calories to power my brain at work.
Below is the connection class I have written for pulling Basecamp 3 API data using PHP. This is a Laravel class, but you can use the code in any PHP app with some tweaks. I am still working on it, but this is what I have so far. I have implemented caching using ETag, but not Last-Modified yet.… read more “Basecamp 3 API PHP Connection Class”
I try to track my happiness along with a number of variables every single day in my spreadsheet. So far, I have found a few things that can dramatically improve my daily mood:
Science shows that writing down what your grateful for can help combat depression and increase happiness. It has worked for me for sure! Every day I write down one thing I am grateful for. See my list recently:
| Relaxing honeymoon day |
| Happy life |
| Good honeymoon |
| Visiting grandparents |
| My family |
| Jimmy running with laurel and i, grandpa and bestemor |
| Healthy life with laurel |
| Nice family visit |
| Able to work from home when sick |
| Laurel is great |
| Things to do |
| Its the weekend |
| Laurel is best wifey ever |
| Back in the office |
| Freedom to structure my days |
| Great CT team right now |
| Sleep |
| Healthy lifestyle |
| Going to portland on wednesday |
| Back in my routine tomorrow |
| Home sweet home |
| Top ranked for everything |
| Laurel is an awesome wife |
| Not in debt |
| Security |
| I have a good brain |
| Healthy diet |
| Very happy, perfect life now |
| Choose my own schedule |
| I am proud of what i do |
| No hangover, i feel great |
| Lots of free time |
| Flexible schedule |
| Fun man date with jeremy |
| Laurel being reasonable and open to change |
| Visiting grandma gross this weekend |
| Back home |
| Driving purpose to my life |
| Great friends like Victoria and Jeremy |
| Laurels family here in LA |
| Laurel great wife |
| Romy is actually solid |
| No lawsuits of big size going on |
| I drink less usually nowadays |
| Generally good health |
| Business is super good |
| treadmill desk |
| Kickoff call a day this week |
| Fun rock climbing with scott b yesterday |
| Renewed motivation this time of year |
| I am not crazy like everyone else lol |
| Fun weekend with friends (jeremy bbq, scott’s gf mel bday) |
| More social contact lately due to my regular morning and evening calls |
| Productive week |
| Fun purposes to work on |
| Bishop trip this weekend |
| Excited about bishop in 2 days |
| Done with work for the week! |