Chicago winters are brutal. We’re talking about frigid temperatures paired with bone chilling winds that leave your skin wind-burnt and dried out. I’m glad I don’t live downtown anymore.. getting anywhere would be an adventure. Coming to an intersection, I sometime thought I’d get blown away.. and lets not even get into the fear of falling ice. I lived right across the street from Lake Michigan and the winds that came off of it would making dodging melting falling ice a battlefield.
All that makes me grateful for my now cozy hundred-year-old house, equipped with indoor and outdoor wood burning fireplaces, dozens of thick blankets, a freezer stashed with homemade soup, a hot tub and a sauna.
Well anyway, so yeah its winter and that also means that I’ve sold my soul to the gym. Yup you’ll find me there multiples times a week, getting my butt kicked. Its still much more appealing than roughing it out in the cold.
Jacob and I were thinking about going to Vegas for New Year’s. But what would New Year’s be without drinking champagne in front of Buckingham Fountain with dozens of friends?
I think late-fall/winter is my favorite time of year. There’s something really appealing to being in a warm house when its twenty below, huddled up in some blankets and cups of coffee/hot cocoa. I’m also a big fan of the fact I have an unlimited ability to chill beer, all I have to do is keep it outside, or grab a cooler and shovel some snow into it!
March conference update:
Jacob and I won’t be making it to the O’Reilly conference, but we will be at SXSW the 6th-10th. If anyone wants to meet up for drinks on that Friday or Saturday email me. I’d really like to check out the San Jose Hotel!
— mischadehartI can really empathize with this guy. We’re not exactly the same, but there are similarities. I like when people remind me of myself; it makes me optimistic about the future.
“Typically, on the internet, people strive to be the best. They want to create the ‘next big’ thing; the killer app that will revolutionize the way people buy or communicate online. In short, they want to be the #1 in their category, whatever that may happen to be.
But I don’t think this is neccessary.
In terms of DubCorp, my business, I think this stems from the experiences of my youth and what I have come to realize and accept about myself. And this, I think, stems from the notion that there is no such thing as a business, outside of the individuals who manage it. And in this case, that’s me. So in order to understand my business, I have to understand myself. This exercise leads me to an oasis of self-awareness that some people would find unsettling.
You see, I have never been the best at anything.
I’ve never won absolute first place in anything my entire life. Not once. But I always get close in almost anything I do. I’m the 90% guy, but in every category. I’m the jack of all trades, master of none.”
I’ve tended to be not the best at things, but the first. I’ve had several projects that were mediocre in execution, but very innovative; then someone else came along and did it better.
— jakoblodwick
