Amazons Secret Weapon

Last year, around this time, I got an invite to get early access to a strange device from Amazon. Amazon was releasing a speaker that you could talk to. This was something that I would expect out of Google more than Amazon.I was extremely skeptical of the device and…

30 Day Experiment: Tracking Moods

I like to run experiments. In the past, I would take 30 days and try to do something completely different or take that time and try to get a new habit going. I have done everything from giving up sugar to publishing a blog post every day. I like trying…

Airtable As A Backend

Airtable is slowly becoming my new favorite service. It is had to recommend another piece of productivity software as there are a million already but Airtable is something that is unquote and worth looking at getting into your workflow. Airtables has a very simple API that can help you prototype…

A Community of Power

There are certain people in your life you can have conversations with unfiltered. I mean unfiltered like you can tell them something that you trust would get a deep and honest response. You know that they will take you seriously and respect you. I am lucky to have a few…

365 Days of Writing

Writing was always something that I wanted to get more involved in my day to day life. Early last year, I started a blog and had some posts up, but it was nothing more than that just random posts at random times.I tried to start the habit of blogging…

30 Days of Gratitude

Lately, I have been experimenting with new apps that change my thinking and change my behaviors. I was using something early in the year that was basically a “mood tracker.” You would just mark down if you were feeling positive or negative and it would also look at your social…

A Culture Of Wins

Last year, I started doing this challenge on Medium where I would post 100 words a day. 100 words each day and that was one of the rules. I did this for a number of months and some of the writing I am sure was brutal. But, having that daily…

A Few Thoughts On Google Home

Google I/O is this week and with that comes a few days of nonstop Google News. The big announcement of I/O this year comes in the form of a new hardware device called “Google Home.”Google Home is a speaker that has Google built into it. It is…