Yesterday, I showed up to teach my Acroyoga class at the YMCA and witnessed a verbal altercation between a parent and a coach. The interaction upset me enough to write this post. I’ve written about this here and a somewhat relative post on comp behavior. The hardest part of coaching is almost always dealing with the parents (though for me, it is sometimes also at odds with my administrators over what a cheer team should be)....
There is this constant struggle within me. I want to write to get better at writing. I want to write to share knowledge and experience that I have learned, but as I learn and grow, I’m worried that I will inevitably write pure crap. Crap that is useless and not worth reading and is instead clogging up the interwebs and adding more noise than signal. I have a problem that as I read through the internet these days, it often needs to be clarified who is an expert and who is pretending to be one....
I posted last week about the values at Gluino. After further talking them over with some friends, we decided to learn as a group and change one of our values (yes, already). The value we are changing is Transparency. We are shifting it to Trust. This post explains why. Transparency is complicated in the business world. As a company grows, it is hard to be transparent about everything. There are also problems that one group needs to worry about while another may not....
I just returned from a trip to the Denver/Golden area. I stayed with my former podcast co-host Evan at his pretty rad new house in Golden near North Table. This post briefly summarizes the coffee on my trip, along with some recommendations and thoughts. I’m obsessed with Coffee, so I visited several different coffee places while I was in the area. We also visited several different places throughout the trip....
This week, we introduced Gluino to the world. My friend Sean and I have been working on this project for a bit. It’s officially a company, and we are officially making things happen. In this post, I want to introduce you to the product and company and explain why I’m so excited. Maybe, at the end, I’ll even explain the name. The Product Gluino is an AI product, like so many other technologies that are being released right now....