Tag / personal growth

Though not new, this is a very pow­er­ful pre­sen­ta­tion by Daniel Beaty. To learn more about this Daniel Beaty, check out his website.

                           image by Alfa Afrodita I was lis­ten­ing to music on one of my Pan­dora stream­ing sta­tions the other day while cook­ing din­ner. I heard a song come on with an “of the moment” sound, but the voice was clearly Whit­ney Hous­ton. I couldn’t dry my hands fast enough so that I […]

Sev­eral months ago, I started to jot down things in draft for this post. In my head, it was my intent to vio­late the oft-cited rule about three things you don’t dis­cuss in pub­lic – sex, pol­i­tics and reli­gion. I’ve begun to talk a lit­tle about sex, in the form of exam­in­ing gen­der roles. I’ve […]

I can’t lay claim to that title. It’s actu­ally drawn from a great talk by 37 Sig­nals‘ David Heineimeier Hans­son for Stan­ford University’s Entre­pre­neur­ial Thought Lead­ers Lec­ture Series. Whether you hold an MBA or not, I think this is worth an hour of your time. Though the talk is about busi­ness, and stim­u­lates a lot […]

This book will be released on March 9th. Here’s an excerpt from the book. I’ve been incred­i­bly impressed with Jason Fried, head of 37signals. I became famil­iar with Jason when I was look­ing at the company’s project man­age­ment soft­ware for my wife’s busi­ness. A recent Inc. Mag­a­zine arti­cle – The Way I Work – really gave […]

This one is, seem­ingly, pretty straight­for­ward. I tried to think back to see if there was a shift. The more I thought about it, it was clear that I have never been much of a phone per­son. As much as I love a good con­ver­sa­tion, I don’t par­tic­u­larly like talk­ing on the phone. The con­se­quence of […]

A few years ago, when I started my blog “my name is not matt,” it was sup­posed to be a place where I would write more and unload some things I had pent up in my head. Ear­lier this year, I changed the focus of that blog to be a jour­nal of my efforts to […]