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‘The Happiness of Pursuit’ Book Review

By |2019-07-12T06:54:21-06:00September 16th, 2014|Blog, Reviews|

Chris Guillebeau is a champion of adventure, and his latest book is an analysis of the mechanics of modern quests. He profiles dozens of adventurous people in his latest book The Happiness of Pursuit, to contrast the different quests they have pursued. Through his chapter-by-chapter formula, he distills the essence of adventure down into something [...]

Pioneer Nation Conference 2014

By |2019-07-12T06:54:21-06:00April 2nd, 2014|Blog, Entrepreneur, Portland, Reviews|

Last week I attended Pioneer Nation, a 3-day conference of solopreneurs and location independent entreproducers, organized by the same folks who put on the World Domination Summit. When I attended WDS last year I realized what Chris Guillebeau had done by bringing this community together: he gave us a digital guild. Before WDS, I was [...]

4 Free Mindmapping Tools

By |2019-07-12T06:54:23-06:00January 20th, 2014|Blog, Productivity, Reviews|

A new phase of your business, a new project, and a brainstorm walk into a bar. Things Get Messy. Organizing lots of ideas can be overwhelming, unless you get all the ideas onto one canvas, where you can review them all together. Once you can see everything in one place, it becomes much more manageable. [...]

A Great Landing Page

By |2019-07-12T06:54:37-06:00August 14th, 2011|Blog, Content Marketing, Reviews|

There are a lot of things that Ramit Sethi does right. He’s got an incredible blog, full of useful content on a target niche. (Personal finance for twentysomethings and those who still act like twentysomethings, financially.) I open his website every day using the Chrome extension Daily Links – similar to Firefox’s Morning Coffee, it [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk’s Thank You Economy

By |2019-07-12T06:54:40-06:00March 22nd, 2011|Blog, Content Marketing, Portland, Reviews|

I had the great privilege to meet Gary Vaynerchuk last night at Powell's books. If you don't know who @garyvee is, get a Twitter account, already! Vaynerchuk is one of the most influential social media thought leaders online today. He has used social media as a business strategy, building relationships the way small-town economies had [...]