Einstein on Reading Fiction
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. – Albert Einstein The Daily Mail isn’t normally my most trusted...
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Start Something That Matters
Author: Blake Mycoskie Title: Start Something That Matters Published: Sep. 6, 2011 I knew relatively little about TOMS before I started on this book. I really enjoyed reading Blake’s story and the...
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A Day in the Life of a Happiness Engineer
This week, many of us at Automattic are documenting our day to give everyone an idea of what it’s like to work for an entirely distributed company. If you’re interested in reading more you can follow...
View ArticleBuy Experiences, Not Things
Essentially, when you can’t live in a moment, they say, it’s best to live in anticipation of an experience. Experiential purchases like trips, concerts, movies, et cetera, tend to trump material...
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Cat’s Cradle
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Title: Cat’s Cradle Published: Sep. 8, 1998 After hearing Tim Ferriss recommend Cat’s Cradle multiple times on his podcast, I had to give this a try. I’m a big believer in reading...
View ArticleNFL and the American Cancer Society
In fact, the NFL’s claim of 100 percent proceeds from auction and 100 percent proceeds from retail has translated to an average of just $1.1 million every year since they partnered with ACS six years...
View ArticleYes, I Work in Customer Support
I often have a hard time communicating exactly what I do on a daily basis when someone inevitably asks. It might be that they’re not familiar with WordPress.com (although that’s becoming rarer!), or...
View ArticleMental Pictures
It’s been just over a month since my wife and I stepped onto the altar in Chicago, Illinois for a day that we’ll remember forever. Well, at least I hope we can remember all of the amazing details...
View ArticleWhere to Find Ideas
Lately, I’ve been on an idea tear with more ideas hitting my head than I could ever put into action. Admittedly, not all of these ideas are great, but I hit a bit of a slump over the last few months so...
View Article5 Lessons I’ve Learned From One Year at Automattic
As of a few days ago, I’ve now been working for Automattic, makers of WordPress.com, for just over a year. It’s hard to believe that just a short time ago, I was ending my trial and starting full-time...
View ArticleThe Importance of Self-Learning and 5 Key Steps to Put Into Practice
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. ― Immanuel Kant We’re born as self-learners. As children, we rely...
View Article2015
The start to 2015 has already come and gone. I’ve seen hundreds of goals posts up already. I’ve been meaning to publish my own for some time if just to get them set in stone. I have a habit of going...
View ArticleClosing The Expert Gap
Since it’s just you and me here, I’ll admit a secret: I really hate being terrible at something. When I try to pick-up a new skill, I take a look around at people that have been doing that “thing” for...
View ArticleTake a Regular Learning Vacation
For the past three months, I’ve focused on one thing – learning JavaScript. I put aside all freelance work and committed to at least 30 minutes per day. I called it my “learning vacation”. I might have...
View ArticleHow to Take a Successful Vacation
Confession time: I’m not great at taking time away from work. In April of this year, my wife and I took a vacation, our honeymoon actually. We spent two weeks in Greece eating whatever we wanted,...
View ArticleLet’s Take More Microadventures
Two weeks ago, Charlotte and I decided to go camping. We live in the most beautiful state on the planet yet had all of this lightly-used camping gear. So, we packed everything into the car and drove...
View ArticleCode Challenge: What’s Wrong With This Game?
Since the start of 2015, I’ve been working on some JavaScript courses on Treehouse and elsewhere. In an effort to improve, I’m going to do a JavaScript code challenge every Monday for at least 10...
View ArticleCode Challenge: Find the second greatest length
This is the second post in a series of at least 10 code challenges. You can find the others here. Challenge: Given an array of at least three strings, the function secondGreatest should return the...
View ArticleBuild a Better Signal
Isaac Morehouse on Medium: Not long ago a degree may have been the best signal most people could get. There weren’t many ways to demonstrate your value to the market, so a degree was one of the better...
View ArticleCode Challenge: Reverse, Reverse!
This is the third post in a series of at least 10 code challenges. You can find the others here. Compared to the previous two challenges, today’s challenge was short and straightforward. Challenge:...
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