Just Too Logical

Today President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah very surprising…or is it? Read more…

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Yesterday I started working on a plan…a thousand day plan. Yes you heard me…one THOUSAND days.

One THOUSAND Days!

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This past Father’s Day was my 5th one, but my first after having my son. Usually days like this make you remember the good ole times but for some reason, on this day there was no remembering. Read more…

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Are you choosing freedom for now, or freedom for life?

1 scoop now or many scoops later?

About a month ago I was at the mall and my daughter wanted to go to the kids play area. My wife however wanted to take her to another store to buy shoes.  So we gave her the option: play now for “only a little bit” or play after shoe-shopping for “a longer time”.  My 4 year old daughter paused for a minute, considered her options, asked me to confirm that she’d still get to play “today” either way, and then to my surprise decided to maximize her play time by shoe-shopping now. I was amazed and proud. Rarely do kids/young people delay instant gratification.  This got me thinking of the decisions I’ve made over the last 10 years. I wasn’t perfect, but realized I had made 4 decisions that changed my life forever. Read more…

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Would you hire you? Are you still worth it? Do you still deserve your job? Would you lay yourself off? Would you fire you? Read more…

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All this talk of Twitter dethroning Google is very funny to me. I’m seriously pleading for Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers to do another Really?!? skit on SNL addressing this insanity! Read more…

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I’ve been working on a new idea I have for a startup for a few weeks now and its getting rough. How many nights can one actually go to bed at 3am and wake up at 7am?  How can one stay so focused and motivated ALL the time?  If you are in the same boat, you’ve probably read lots of advice on other blogs about books to read, blogs to visit, tweeters to follow, success stories to marvel. Those are all great, but for me, its the small things that motivate me even more. Read more…

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There I said it! My logical blood cells are reproducing faster than normal lately so bear with me. I’m a front and middle tier software developer by trade, but in reality I’m paid to “think” about how people truly use software. This carries over to all parts of my life but I’ll leave that for another post. With this charter I’ve been thinking about MS Office, Google Docs and all other “office” type software. Read more…

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While updating my About Me page, I realized something about myself that I hadn’t before. I realized that I’ve been successful at achieving my goals when they were BIG, but fail much more often when they weren’t. Read more…

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Flag of Belize

As I mentioned before, I’m a mixed Hispanic who can barely speak Spanish. I should know the language since I had to take it for 4 yrs in high school growing up in Belize.  But Belize is an English speaking country and is more “caribbean” than it is “central american”. At least the city I grew up in. I get grief about this ALL the time and have had a couple funny incidents because of this. Read more…

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