I recently turned 45. While it was a disappointingly ho-hum event (Ryan Seacrest did NOT show up at my house, if you can believe that nonsense), I caught myself wondering what I’d tell my 20-year-old self if I were able to go back and dispense the modicum of “wisdom” (do finger airquotes here) I’ve picked
Read More...Stop by here most Fridays and you will see a personal story, a parenting lesson I clumsily try to tie to something that happened the previous week, or our thoughts on leadership, grit and management culture. Sometimes, even though I can’t believe it myself, cat stories. Not today. Today is a different kind of tangent.
Read More...Joe Rogan is easily my favorite podcaster, and he’s what I’m listening to 90% of my time in the car. Recently, while interviewing bowhunting athlete Cameron Hanes, mentioned that life is like a bucket of crabs. Here’s what that means: in a bucket of crabs, when one figures out how to climb up and escape
Read More...If you know us, or you’ve read this blog before – or, heck, even read our tagline – you know we’re big into three things: Focus Passion Doing what’s right, even when it’s hard We’ve grown MIPRO by relentlessly following these guiding principles, and it’s been incredibly rewarding. Challenging at times, but nonetheless very rewarding.
Read More...Have you ever been running late for airplane? You know the sense of stress and fear that you might “miss” your very important flight. If you do, then what? Think of how you see other people or how you treat other people during that chaotic sprint to hurry as fast as you can. Do you
Read More...I have two main ‘entertainment’ providers at home – my live casino uk, which ironically I don’t use for TV, just internet, and my TV provider, which provides satellite TV. And before you say something: yes, I know I can get both from my cable company, but trust me when I say the picture is
Read More...I can remember my parents telling me that someday we would not use cash. I can remember people telling me that pennies would be obsolete (I can also remember my accounting teacher telling me that every penny counts). Yet these all seemed about as far away as some of the things I saw in an
Read More...Call it the Amazon effect, but the service and experience online is fast surpassing what we get when we actually enter a physical retail location. If you’ve shopped online in the last 2-5 years, you understand what I am talking about. The selection, shopping and check out experience you receive when buying online has reached
Read More...My flight from L.A. to Detroit via Las Vegas with a non-scheduled fuel stop in Milwaukee took about twice as long as planned. Some people said I could have flown to New York and beyond in that time. I said in another hour and a half I could have been in Fiji if I’d been
Read More...Upworthy.com (and, now, copycat sites) has become known for dramatic, click-grabbing headlines. As I write this, here’s what’s scattered across Upworthy.com’s main page: Remember When Music Videos Used To Mean Something? Some Still Do. About. Damn. Time. A Sports Network Takes On What No One Wants To Talk About In Locker Rooms. Oh Snap! Cat
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