I work on diverse products from wearables to drones to consumer hardware.
This platform allows me to share my experiences and illuminate lessons I discover.
RECENTLY (2024)
- Turning my side hustle into a real business – Megabeta Climbing – bags for urban climbers
- Reading and sharing my favorite books of 2023
- Training and climbing like this trip to Red Rock Canyon (Feb)
- Writing a newsletter to encourage Creative Business projects (Jan)
Most Popular Articles
50 Things I’ve Learned this year (2022)
Feed the pigs so they’re ready to fly. It can take 1,000 days before a business succeeds. Set up easy systems so you can keep going.
The Best Skill I Learned from Ali Abdaal
The doctor and YouTuber Ali Abdaal has released a few Skillshare classes. I watched the top four courses and collected the best insights.
Top 15 Fantastic Books of 2022
My favorites from the year’s big stack of books, including celebrity auto-biographies, terrific fiction, and inspiring true stories. From the top of the list:
(3) Made to Stick (2) Humor, Seriously (1) Invention: A Life
Projects
I have worked in product development professionally for over ten years, but I also like to build fun projects on the side.
I get so curious about new technologies that I often have to mess around with them myself. My favorite project to date is a 6 foot flower we built to raise awareness for Hunger Action Month.
My Latest Writing
- The Top Reads of 2023: Standout Page-Turners
In 2023 I cracked a lot of books and ultimately I finished fewer than usual. That’s a good thing, particularly because it means every book I finished truly satisfied me. Reading often serves as my “productive procrastination” from projects or activities that might have gotten stuck. That means reading less signals that I stepped up… Read more: The Top Reads of 2023: Standout Page-Turners - What I learned this year — Top 50 Extraordinary Ideas [2023]
Squeeze and orange and it makes orange juice. What happens when you get squeezed? And 49 more lessons on on leadership, focus, and happiness. - The Power of Avoiding James Dyson’s Mistakes
The mistakes along James Dyson’s path to enormous success, the value of stubbornness to win out in the end, and a constructive tip on learning in your field.