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I am an avid collector of domains. Sort of ridiculous how many I have because I always thought that I’d pursue 100 things. But doing 100 things poorly is not worth anything. No one wants 100 half assed things. Further, pursuing things outside of your immediate capabilities also adds friction. Doing anything well requires a […]

I recently have decided to play with the WordPress API and it is pretty great. I enjoy writing within WordPress and I am writing a whole lot more now that I am no longer trying to do a hipster static website. One of the challenges I’ve had is that I have a bunch of domains […]

Complexity is Entropy. If something takes you much longer to do than doing it the easy way you are basically wasting energy. I’ve been wondering why that is? I think the reason is that though simplicity scales better it gets boring. For people who can run a marathon or do the same weightlifting routine for […]

Owning a small business has a pitfall that where you start and where the company starts are blurred. You take money out whenever you want and treat the company as a personal bank. I think this has caused misaligned incentives and coming to the conclusion that it be avoided. When you are the owner of […]

For a business cash is king. This has been a truism and it is definitely something that I have paid little thought to. However, how money comes in and how it goes out to vendors/employees plays a huge role. Unfortunately, I have come more and more to the conclusion that getting paid upfront for a […]

While writing PR.FAQs for my projects I keep doing, “this project does x and y and z.” Basically, bundling too many things into a single thing. This results in lack of focus and projects that are not connected to each other but if you squint it looks like they are. For example, I wanted to […]

Product businesses are so hot right now. There is a literal app for every single thing. Product companies are great because margins are high, custom work is low and scaling that is relatively easy. Unfortunately, with opsZero I’m in the service game. Services are interesting because after doing services for 20+ companies in the last […]

Inspiring leaders motivate others towards a bigger goal. I am not an inspiring leader. I have trust issues, I want things done my way, I micromanage, I give tight confines with no ability for creativity. I utterly make myself miserable when others don’t do things my way and I make others miserable by denying their […]

There is so much data about how climate change is affecting us that it is overwhelming. I’ve created a website climate.sh to start tracking an initial set of KPIs, however rough it may be. The initial data was just public companies that are actively causing climate change. I used this metric, predominantly coal and oil […]

Well I’m at it again, designing yet another crowd workflow engine. One of the things about workflow engines are that one size doesn’t really fit all especially if you want it to be easy to use. The workflow engine I’m working on is for getting code completed. The problem is how to do it in […]