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The Cost of the Cheapest
July 29, 2022

My experience in renting the cheapest commercial place I could find reminded me of a lesson I forget every now and then: never buy the cheapest – it costs too much. Cost vs Price The…

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Innovate One Thing at a Time
May 27, 2022

If you’re the type of person (like me) who has lots of ideas and wants to create novel things, it’s easy to start “novelizing” everything.  For example, I created the new experience The Eureka Room.…

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Good Fits and Bad Fits
April 26, 2022

One of the hardest things about The Eureka Room is getting the right people there and keeping the wrong people away.  By “wrong” I don’t mean they are wrong or bad people. I mean “wrong…

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Languishing
April 22, 2022

The commercial lease I was looking at fell through a couple weeks ago and I’ve been looking for a new lease ever since. The search doesn’t take up all my time but I haven’t been…

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Any Path Will Do.
February 25, 2022

In business and the arts, the differerence between hope and despair, energy and stasis, and awareness and being lost is sometimes just the difference between being able to think of at least one conceivable way…

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So You Think You’re Learning…
February 18, 2022

Your Favorite Book From Last Year Think of a book you read maybe a year ago that had over 200 pages. One that you loved and recommend to people. You thought it was great. Now, without…

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A Proactive Solution to Deal With Rejection
January 18, 2022

I was recently interviewed by my friend Laura Bond Williams for an article in a local magazine. One of the questions she asked was something along the lines of, “how do you deal with rejection…

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The Shelf
January 11, 2022

Sometimes I’ll be working on a project over a period of days, weeks, or months and come to a point where the outlook for the project is not good. It might be due to: Life…

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Prioritizing
January 7, 2022

Right now I have a list of over sixty changes I want to make to The Eureka Room. Some of them will take maybe an hour, some much longer.  How do I choose? Here’s three…

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Tools vs Craft
January 4, 2022

I’m going to spend some time here writing about how tools can get conflated with craft. There’s a few ways I’ve seen people get sidetracked by tools from developing their craft. I highlight three of…

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