2025 Entries
✦ May
Leadership Lessons from Major Dick Winters
Have you ever heard of Major Dick Winters? He seems to cross my mind every year as we go celebrate
Archives
2024 Entries
✦ August
The legend behind Royal Dornoch logo
👋Below is the tale behind the Royal Dornach logo. This was hands down my favorite course we played in Scotland.
2024 Entries
✦ January
Be present, accountable, and aware
Hey, friend.
The story of David vs. Goliath is well-known, but later in his life, the king messed up big
2023 Entries
✦ November
How to choose a golf coach
Golfers often ask me for recommendations on who they should take golf lessons from. However, the best coach for you
2021 Entries
✦ May
Calm Capital bought Wavve
If you subscribe to Notes from the Field,
[https://notesfromthefield.substack.com] you’ve heard about a recent unnamed
acquisition
2020 Entries
✦ December
Over communication
If you don’t tell the story, customers derive their own opinions and
conclusions.
And more often than not, they’
2020 Entries
✦ December
Criticism
I was criticized recently by someone whose opinion I could care less about.
The initial reaction I guard against when
2020 Entries
✦ December
Execute and learn
Thoughts and quotes on executing ideas.
> Execution is the carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order,
2020 Entries
✦ November
Give thanks
> In everything give thanks…
Sometimes this is a hard command to follow. It’s so absolute — so encompassing.
“Everything”
2020 Entries
✦ October
Best and worst
Was going through some old notes this week from a few sessions I had last year
with a college golf
2020 Entries
✦ October
Just think
I’d like to propose something. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say, please give
this a
2020 Entries
✦ September
Unity, liberty, and charity
I heard this not too long ago and it’s stuck with me (especially relevant right
now). I believe it’
2020 Entries
✦ September
More and better
I was moving some books around in the office and stumbled across a book my mom gave me when I
2020 Entries
✦ August
Ideal backwards
I was listening to a podcast the other day with Stripe co-founder John Collison.
Of the many things I pulled
2020 Entries
✦ July
Your mindset when
Was going through some old notes this week from a few sessions I had last year
with a college golf
2020 Entries
✦ July
Building better with less
Been finding a lot of inspiration for where we’re going with CrewPay’s
experience from Basecamp’s new email
2020 Entries
✦ June
Back to front
Last week, I was listening to a podcast with Stripe co-founder, John Collison.
Of the many things I pulled from
2020 Entries
✦ June
Align wants
The biggest thing I’m learning and getting better at is helping other people get
what they want. In all
2020 Entries
✦ June
Think
I’d like to propose something. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say, please give
this a
2019 Entries
✦ December
Narrative that resonates
I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of narrative in our communications. This doesn’t only pertain to
2019 Entries
✦ September
Say no to shortcuts
I read a post earlier this year from Seth Godin about getting unstuck. Thought I’d share it with you
2019 Entries
✦ September
The delta between price and value
> Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith, and perseverance to
create a brand.
2019 Entries
✦ August
Nail your brand voice and tone with these questions
Questions you need to answer to nail your brand voice and tone.
Brand Voice Questions
Brand voice doesn’t change.
2019 Entries
✦ August
Receive, apply, advance
Not too long ago, I took the CliftonStrengthsFinder assessmen
[https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/]t. My scores came back to say
2019 Entries
✦ August
Company culture is like patina
One of the companies in Greensboro that I’ve had the opportunity to get to know
is Thompson Traders [http:
2019 Entries
✦ July
Expert simplicity
Bain & Company finished a study recently aimed to identify the key indicators of
business success. It concluded that “narrower
2019 Entries
✦ July
How to build software without getting in your own way
One of the “books” I’m reading [https://basecamp.com/shapeup?] is the new one
from Basecamp, penned by Ryan
2019 Entries
✦ July
Great software is...
Read an article [http://lloydtabb.com/great-software-is-an-act-of-empathy] this
week that made this statement:
> Great software is an act of
2019 Entries
✦ June
For the customer or at the customer
An old Peter Drucker quote came to mind this week as I read through our CrewPay
product update.
> Is
2019 Entries
✦ June
Candid about candor
Happy father’s day to all the dads out there. It was great fun with my boys and
even squeezed
2019 Entries
✦ June
Three questions for market
Three questions I’ve been asking myself as we begin to “market” CrewPay
[http://paywithcrew.com] publicly.
1. Why does
2019 Entries
✦ June
Leveling Up
The last few months have been challenging. The responsibilities of running the
teams at Honestly and having significant roles at