5 Tips for Disruptive Thinking (Or, How to Get a Pompous Classist Like Johnny B. Truant to Feature You on His Blog)

What Sam Rosen says in the intro to his guest post below is true… I’m really not so into accepting guest posts because this isn’t so much a “business blog” as it’s “that one asshole’s blog.” When that one asshole isn’t the person writing, it feels strange. (Drew Kime holds some incriminating info on me, which is why I ran his post recently. ButContinue Reading

We failed to talk about walruses

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NOTE: I’m fucking audio-tarded and apparently Jordan is too, because between the two of us, we can’t get audio to stream like every normal person can. Whatever. Just click “download” above and listen to it. It’s fantastic.

When Jordan Cooper of NotAProBlog.com emailed me to tell me that he, Nathan Hangen, and Mike Cliffe-Jones were doing a game show as part of… Continue Reading

What I’m doing about launch fatigue

NOTE: Charlie Gilkey, Marissa Bracke (author of the infamous “Launch Fatigue” post) and I actually did a really cool and thorough discussion of launch fatigue in our latest Jam Session, which features music by Journey. No, I’m not kidding about the Journey. It was Charlie’s fault.

What do you mean you’re not signed up for the Jam Sessions? Were you in a planeContinue Reading

Tim Brownson won’t give up, despite having seen The Jam in 1979

Are you ready for some rollicking good personal development fun with life coach and generally hilarious guy Tim Brownson? If you’re not, then you may be a communist. I’m just saying.

Tim’s had some setbacks in his noble project to donate a million copies of his book to charity. But does he want to quit? You bet your ass he… Continue Reading

You can’t always get what you want (but hell, you should get it at least sometimes)

I see where this is going.

I wrote not too long ago about being lazy. Then, I got praise for talking about being lazy, and now, today, I had this idea to write about spending time and money on stuff just because it feels good, and so it kind of looks like I’m moving in the direction of being a feel-good,… Continue Reading