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Don’t Dip Your Quill In Company Ink

I ride bikes most weekends with a group of guys. One of the guys, taught me this lesson. Twenty-five years ago, his mentor gave him this advice, “Don’t dip your quill in company ink”. The summary […] Read More

Don’t Check Your Email 200 Times a Day

My friend Bill told me once, “Your inbox is full of stuff other people want you to work on.” The spirit of this principle is don’t be a slave to what other people want you to work on. […] Read More

Self-Respect and Dignity Are Easy to Ignore But Difficult to Regain

I have a friend who served a thirteen months sentence in Federal prison for an SEC (Security Exchange Commission) violation. Concurrent with the US market collapse of 2007, the US government started a campaign to […] Read More

You’ve Got Mad Skills

An excerpt from Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. The World Needs You I’m going to assume that you’re reading this manifesto because something is amiss in your career. […] Read More

The Art of Living Forward in the Direction You Want to Go

We celebrated Valentines Day dinner by eating in our 1974 VW JOY BUS (yes the Bus officially has been named, the JOY BUS) while parked inside our garage. We had another couple over and we all cooked […] Read More

Don’t Allow Any Quit in You!

“You’ve never quit anything before.” Those are the words my brother-in-law Timothy said to me that stopped me in my tracks while hiking the Boulder Flatirons. He said it as a complimentary claim about me and […] Read More

Don’t ever give up. Try something new.

Jockstraps. That was my level of desperation. It was 1999 and I needed to close a deal. It was a sales deal and I was working for an Internet startup. I sent jock straps mounted to whiteboards […] Read More

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

The way I put it to my friends There are two versions of every story. The one you tell on Facebook or at a cocktail party, and the one you only tell your closest friends. […] Read More

Why I Write About More Than Just Work-Life Balance?

I never set out to write a blog. I told myself, that’s the last thing the world needs, another guy with an opinion. This month marks my three-year anniversary of this accidental creation, Work Life Play Blog/Podcast. […] Read More

Gear Every Road Warrior Must Carry

Gear Every Road Warrior Must Carry I travel a lot. So much so that I try to not think too much about it and count how many days I spend away from home. I’m going […] Read More

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