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Financial Fitness
We finally managed to pay off our last credit card. We haven’t been debt free since we sold our house about six years ago. Ever since then we have always had a balance on one or more of them. I wasn’t sure if paying off the credit card would really make that much of a [...]
Balance Is Hard
Keeping things in my life in balance is really hard for me, I don’t think I’m alone in this. It’s been something that I’ve been spending some additional time addressing recently. Here are a few examples of my difficulty with balance and how I’m trying to work on them. You may find some of my [...]
Standing Desk
I’ve been toying around with the idea and implementation of a standing desk for some time. Inspired by my friend Ben Lew and having read a couple articles (like this one) about the benefits of standing and working I’ve been wanting to give it a shot. I was however pretty nervous about going cold turkey [...]
21times Hacker News Sneak Peek
November 1st we launched an early version of our new project 21times.org. Some members of the Hacker News community committed to launching an application by the end of November as an effort to fight off procrastination and get their projects out into the world. Since we were already working on 21times.org we decided we could [...]
My Departure From Twitter
On May 22nd, 2007 at 5:35pm I posted my first Tweet. After fighting it for awhile and finally being convinced by my friend Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) I decided to start using Twitter as a way to network. And thus began my experiment. Now exactly 2 years and 4,757 updates later I have decided it’s time [...]
Self-Denial and Activism
I really admire Richard Branson (Virgin Group) ever since I read his autobiography Losing My Virginity. This morning I came across this post about fasting for Darfur on his blog. In this post he outlines his reasons for fasting. And they largely center around bringing awareness of the issues in Darfur. While I think there [...]
Personal Online Code of Conduct
In my last post I mentioned that I was currently drafting a new Personal Online Code of Conduct. My goal is to move away from the need to be constantly connected and also to make sure the time I am connected is time well spent creating value, not just consuming and adding to the online [...]
The “Bog” That Is Constant Connectivity
Virginia Heffernan recently wrote an article for the NY Times titled Let Them Eat Tweets in which she discusses this recent phenomenon of constant connectivity. It seems the masses (myself included) are infatuated with the idea of being constantly connected to people, some of which they don’t even know offline. It’s an interesting topic and [...]
BlueSwarm.com is live!
Finally, we’ve soft launched BlueSwarm.com. We’ve been working on this project for a few months now and we’re proud to finally have something that the general public can play with. This is still a relatively early beta, but it’s functional! So what is it? BlueSwarm allows you to track your brand through online social media [...]
Depressing
Am I the only one that finds these images depressing? Or am I wrong in feeling this? I need out! Update: This keeps getting better and better. Now it’s what seems to be a racism and religion mix. Keep ‘em coming Colorado Springs!
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I am an entrepreneur and developer currently live in Belleville, NJ and work in New York City, NY. I'm also a CoFounder of DailyPath.
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