Jan 6Entrepreneurs are great at telling incomplete stories, lets change that.Last year was GREAT for me. Last year punched me in the face too. Life is always great when I am in this position w/ my life and family I’ve hit my point of enough My house is enough, my cars are enough, my kids private school is enough, my vacation fund is enough. I’ve seen enough of the world. My rainy day fund is enough…Entrepreneurship6 min readEntrepreneurship6 min read
Nov 28, 2022Can you teach someone to be unafraid?TLDR: Can you teach someone to be “unafraid” to act when they recognize that the risks are low? Since I was 14 I always took risks, I calculated the risk and wasn’t afraid of the consequences and I did things that others ask “who told you that it was OK to do that?” To which I respond…what was the worst thing that could happen? Here are 3 examples of me processing risk and acting w/o seeking permission.Imposter Syndrome3 min readImposter Syndrome3 min read
Oct 5, 2022Anti-side hustle / Parenting as side hustleEvery week anyone in our company can submit a social question, this week someone asked…do you have a side hustle, if yes, tell us about it — link out to it. I loved the question for a bunch of reasons: It came from a brand new employee, meaning she felt…Side Hustle3 min readSide Hustle3 min read
Jun 24, 2022I f***ing get it … Representation MattersI’m OK being the first black anything. I’m an innovator, by my nature I like going into things others likely haven’t done. So when it comes to race…I’ve actually never needed to “see black people” in the role to feel like it was possible for me. …Representation5 min readRepresentation5 min read
Jun 8, 2022Hustle is in my DNA, sorry not sorryMy dad hustled, so I didn’t have to. It’s in his DNA and thus, likely mine. It’s all I saw my entire life, and I do mean entire. This is my dad, on my mom’s 80th birthday in 96 degree weather. Yeah that is not a typo. NINETY SIX! Here…Hustle3 min readHustle3 min read
May 27, 2022Hire for the things you can’t trainI was up till 3:30am the other night working on an open source CCTV troubleshooting project, I went from zero knowledge and thinking it would be a 10 minute fix at 9pm to working on this problem until 3:30am and fixing it, kinda. I share this because it reminds me…Hiring3 min readHiring3 min read
May 16, 2022Rich & Sad“NO such thing as a life that is better than yours, no such thing, no such thing.” — J. Cole. One of the most profound statements in my 23 year professional career came from a client who sold to Alibaba — in a pretty big deal, all over crunchbase etc…Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
May 6, 2022The case for Manager Branding vs Employer BrandingYeah, we’ve all heard that one and most of us believe it, but how many of us have flipped it? “Employees aren’t attracted to companies, they are attracted to managers.” Sure companies matter a ton! A company provides the environment for a manager to operate within. But what about manager’s role? …Hiring5 min readHiring5 min read
Jan 3, 2022Finding Mentors: Do you want to feel better or get better?I read this passage in Thinking in Bets about creating a group that was built to make each other better at poker. When one player brought up how unlucky they had gotten, another would nod in assent as a prelude to telling their own hard-luck story, which, in turn, would…Mentorship7 min readMentorship7 min read
Dec 20, 2021Peace out Comparison culture. 8 hours of deleting my Instagram one photo at a time.TLDR — There’s power in knowing when you are bullshitting yourself. The only way to get better at that is to occasionally take a step back and look at what put out in the world. When is the last time you asked yourself: “Why did I post that happy anniversary…Instagram5 min readInstagram5 min read
