Matt
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Selling Lighters
Back in December a friend and I decided to try our hand at a simple e-commerce business. Drop-shipping lighters from China. We built a brand and website to sell the lighters and created ad campaigns and managed to sell about a dozen lighters in the lead up to Christmas. That first dozen sales lead to…
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My Unique Productivity Hacks
I like to think that I do a good job of getting things done. Certainly the way I do things is not going to be the perfect solution for everyone, but perhaps readers will get some ideas. Probably the best, most effective and unique productivity tool I use is a custom notification script. I have…
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Resist Simplifying the Complexity of Complex Systems
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein When looking at the world there are lots of things that are beyond the limits of human cognition. Not only do we not understand these complex systems but it is physically impossible for us to ever understand them. This is information theory,…
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Growth Mindset
I’ve been reading this book, Mindset: the new psychology of success by Carol Dweck. It’s been on my list of books to read for several years now and I’m finally catching up on the backlog. What finally brought it to the top of the list was finding out that this book is forming the basis…
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Producing Video and Audio
Over the last several weeks I have been doing quite a bit of learning. One of the things I’m doing more of is going deeper on producing video and audio content for podcasting and YouTube channels. My home office now has enough equipment to do an adequate job with audio and video production. My YouTube…
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My Genius Ideas Notebook
Last year I started a notebook specifically to collect ideas that I feel are particularly innovative or interesting. I keep it on my desk – one of the few things. While I believe that ideas are usually worthless without taking the action to implement them, or at least further investigate their feasibility. Collecting ideas into…
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Personal Brand
Over the years I have done a lot of things. much of that history is documented on this website, but much more isn’t. Many of my projects and business ideas were purposely separated from my personal site and I didn’t even reference them here or elsewhere. Some of that was to avoid sharing more failures,…
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3D Printing
For Christmas this year, I got a 3D printer to add to my ever busier home office. My hope with the printer is to create more in 2019. And I have a backlog of ideas for things I want to make with it. I hit a wall with my bike design a couple months ago…
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Velocity vs Speed
This past year has been one of the most interesting I’ve had. Quitting my job gave me the time to pursue a wide variety of interests. And I did use the time this year to get a lot of unique things done – blockchain development, built a chat/finance app, wrote a space strategy plan/planned a…
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Designing a Bike
I love bikes, want to be able to use them more often than I do, and have been looking for something to do as a hands on project that doesn’t use the computer so much. Building my own bike seems like a neat and unique project. When thinking about what I would want in a…
