Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

When I first started my publishing business, a reader from a small island nation across the world bought one of my books. This was long before ebooks had gone mainstream, so my digital delivery options were limited at the time. When I arrived at the post office, they said it would cost forty dollars to ship. Forty dollars. For a fifteen dollar book. Insane. The worst part was, there…

On our honeymoon, my wife and I hired a local tour guide to show us around the city for a day. Prague was a new destination for us, so we relied on a native to help us make the most out of our trip. One memorable moment during the tour happened when the three of us stood at a busy intersection. I pressed the button on the pedestrian crosswalk,…

Do you want to get out of your own way? Here’s an emotional linguistic hack that will change your life. Learn to replace the phrase, fuck you, with the phrase, okay, sounds great. It’s just an easier existence. You save yourself and everyone else a heaping ton of stress, conflict and complication. Now, understandably, those two words are difficult to resist. Saying fuck you to someone is a classic…

I am a huge fan of logic. Despite being the classic right brained creative whose livelihood centers around his ability to throw off the shackles of logic and exploit the resources of imagination, I see the allure. Logic is just so clean, useful and beautiful. And as I collaborate with more engineers, developers, designers and technical people in my career, I have learned ways to improve my own logical…

I have been wearing my nametag all day, every day, for twenty five years. And along my journey, there have been many occasions where people accused me of hiding behind it. Which is a counterintuitive concept, because wearing a nametag is, in many ways, the polar opposite of hiding. It actually forces me to be seen, noticed and interacted with. The sticker makes me an order of magnitude more…