The development of asset performance management is a tale rooted in practical problem-solving. It begins in an era when industrial machinery was rapidly transforming how society functioned, but with little understanding of how to maintain complex mechanical systems safely and efficiently. In the mid-19th century, steam power was revolu...

Inspired by Matt's 'Stream like a CEO' post, I went down the rabbit hole of improving my own setup for video conferencing. Since I'm in a customer facing role, I think it's important to look and sound as good as possible. What follows is how I incrementally improved my video conferencing equipment over the past few years. Audio Unless ...

“The hard ones.” I was posturing during an interview in 2007 when I sad that. My future boss was surprised by the answer, but liked it. I swelled with pride of an achievement chasing twenty five year old. Over a decade later, I find myself frustrated, listened and surly towards life more often than I’d like to admit. I feel pulled towa...

I've long been inspired by Matt Mullenweg and Tynan's gear posts and finally got around to writing one myself. I'm a frequent business traveler that cares a lot about the tools and gear I use. Earlier in my life, I was in to ultralight backpacking and have applied some of those habits to my work travel. I'm a strong advocate of traveli...

Inspired by Derek Sivers’ Josh Kaufman’s now page, here’s mine: Starting something new In January, I left my job and joined up with a former colleague to start a services company around digital transformation/intelligent automation. Right now we’re working one large services job where we’re setting up downtime monitoring and automatic ...

By height. That was Ty's flippant response in Caddyshack to Judge Smails. As someone who identifies as competitive, this line from Caddyshack has stuck with me through the years, but it's made more sense to me lately. I grew up taking sports very seriously and tied my identity to performance and achievement. When that chapter ended (in...

This is written as much to myself as it is to anyone that reads this. There are no magic pills. There are no free lunches. Pick your metaphor, but there isn't a way to sidestep consistency and hard work. Here's my most recent lesson on this topic. After most of a year of eating and drinking too much, my shame and self loathing reached ...