Sometimes after I play a gig, a sound engineer or someone from the crowd will approach me and tell me that they’d like to work with me and potentially record my music. I took someone up on this once, and we ended up with a pretty nice result. Sometimes I get Facebook messages that are similar. I once received one that said: “Hey! I loved your music. I didn’t hear anything professional on your site so let me know if you want me to produce anything for you.

+++ title = “04” date = 2019 +++ In 1987, Paul Janet put forward the idea that when you’re one year old, a year is 100% of your life. When you’re 2, a year is reduced to 50%, and so on. It’s why car rides are so long for young children, and why waiting for summer break can sometimes feel like an eternity when you’re young but then three fly by in what seems like an instant as an adult.

+++ title = “04” date = 2019 +++ When I started working out years ago, I bought myself a set of rubber bands and a few dumbbells and got the latest fitness book from Barnes and Noble. I don’t think I actually made much progress, but there were still benefits, such as learning how to do certain exercises that I hadn’t learned from high school gym class. But when my wife convinced me that we should both go to a fitness trainer, and I agreed, I found out that there is a real benefit to having a coach vs.

When I first started playing guitar and piano, every note and every chord were fair game. When I started programming, a simple print hello world program was fair game. When I started working out more regularly, every exercise and even type of weight was fair game. The question is: when did the most basic elements of a practice become unfair game? It probably happened when we started challenging ourselves to become more adventurous and try expanding our skills.

I wrote a month ago about my complicated relationship with birthdays. About how it’s an important thing to celebrate a person and I’ve traditionally been bad at it. So I came up with a unique idea for a business. It works like this: Make a list of everyone that you’d like to celebrate. Let’s say no more than 50-100 people. Enter those names and physical addresses into the website. At some designated start date, preferably New Year’s Day but it really doesn’t matter, you get on your account and type up a birthday message for every person on your list.