My son sent us a message at 6:37 a.m. MST on Messenger. They’re two hours behind us, so it was 8:37 a.m. for us. The message? “It’s go time!” Keaton and Kate’s due date was December 13, but their baby decided December 3 was the day. Three hours later, at 9:29 a.m. MST, Atlas Cameron…
I discovered that being creative is like exercise. If you stop doing it regularly, you’ll soon stop doing it at all. Last year, I was shooting to write 365 blog posts. After reaching that goal, I decided to cut back and write 52 posts for the rest of this year. Guess how many posts I’ve…
AI is everywhere these days. You see it in social media posts. And internet memes. Soon we won’t be able to believe anything that we see online! But is AI bad? It’s a tool. And it’s the wielder of the tool that decides to use it for good or bad. Seth Godin has mentioned in…
We have two more performances of Things I Know to be True. It’s always weird when a show is coming to the end of the run. We’ve spent weeks working on this show. Rehearsals started in February, but we met as a cast before that. It feels like we’ve been working on it much longer.…
Just over a year ago, I started this project. To write 365 blog posts. It took a little longer than I thought. Instead of 12 months, it took me 15 months. Still, not bad. I wrote more posts in the last 15 months than I had written in the previous 13 years! Wow. Seth Godin…
Every week, I come up with 5 possible blog post ideas. Then, I assign a date to write a post on that idea. Most of the time, I come up with a different idea instead of writing the scheduled one. And so, my list gets bigger. This happens 70% to 80% of the time. Currently,…
I just finished Great by Choice again. Man, I love that book. And I love listening to Jim Collin’s read it. Wow. It’s a business book. And yet a few times, some of the stories in it moved me to tears. What qualities do you need to become a great company? A great organization? A…
I’ve been in plays where I’ve had to kiss someone. It’s part of the play. And it’s not as interesting as one would think. You’re performing a role. There’s no emotional involvement and it’s mechanical. It’s nothing like when you kiss someone you have feelings for. But in the olden days, when a play called…
Last week, I made a list of some of the books I want to read this year. And right away, I started listening to book that wasn’t on the list. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen. I first listened to this book in 2011. And I’ve listened to it a few…
In January, I told myself that I would try to read 26 books in 2025. A book every two weeks. I haven’t read any yet. Now, that I’ve started my personal New Year, I figured that I should try to get moving on that goal. The thing is that “reading 26 books” or “reading a…
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