Daily Tracking Of My Life Rockets Goals Ahead

I am the owner of a successful and profitable company with 60+ full time employees, am in good shape physically, and have maintained strong relationships with my family and friends. How have I been able to accomplish my goals? Through daily progress tracking on things that are most important to me. Here is a partial screenshot for the last view days:

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I have been tracking in a spreadsheet on Google Docs my goals daily since January 11, 2012.… read more “Daily Tracking Of My Life Rockets Goals Ahead”

The Power of Web Applications

I have really been working hard lately on improving my development capabilities, and have been making significant progress. I am at work building 3 tools for my company that should help in a really big way:

  • Recruiting
  • Training
  • Time Management

Each of these tools should automate and streamline some relatively inefficient processes. I am very excited about it!

Laravel Socialite

I am incredibly grateful to Taylor Otwell for building Socialite for Laravel… it will make my programming so much easier this morning! Turn several hours of struggling with figuring oAuth2.0 and integrating it into my app into less than an hour of easy integration.

Why are trains driven by people still?

If we have self driving cars moving through enormously complex environments autonomously, why are trains still driven by people?

A train could very easily be operated by a robot or a combination of robot and engineer.

The tragic accident in Pennsylvania was entirely preventable. An engineer drove that derailed train at 106 miles per hour through a 50 mile an hour curve.… read more “Why are trains driven by people still?”

Pursuing Self Improvement

Sometimes it seems to me that sitting on the couch and watching television is a nice way to relax, but that is happening less often. I’ve realized that I actually feel better in general if I do something to improve myself. Here is a list of my favorite non-work activities at this point:

  1. Programming
  2. Outdoor rock climbing
  3. Reading non-fiction books
  4. Running
  5. Reading hacker news articles on my phone
  6. Eating healthy
  7. Getting enough sleep (prereq for life)
  8. Indoor climbing
  9. Playing a game like BrainWars on my phone

Favorite work activities:

  1. Programming
  2. Building new systems / structures
  3. Working with my team members / collaboration
  4. Team meetings
  5. Client calls / sales calls
  6. Answering emails
  7. Negotiating contracts

Bouldering at Stoney Point

Outdoor bouldering is definitely not my thing… Too high risk. Today will be my only day without ropes I think.

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I climbed up this relatively easy but slabby and scary climb.

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No ropes, 25 feet in the air… Ugh.

Is Slow Growth Risky?

WordPerfect grew at 50% a year and their executives were happy at the time. Microsoft Word grew at 200% per year and ended up killing off WordPerfect. People didn’t choose Word on features, they chose it on market adoption.