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I help outliers building the next generation of weird companies move past the ‘media is the enemy” phase of public relations. I will help you craft a story that can be broadcast far and wide, no matter how outside-the-norm you are. If your dream is to have a cover story in a prestige periodical, a […]
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Day 969 and Hot Chicks
I know it’s a little bit odd to be getting chickens in August, but as of today our homestead is now home to eight egg laying hens. Some of our friends are moving and needed a local home for their laying hens. Another one of our friends was giving up their old chicken coop so […]
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Day 968 and Precautionary
Do you recall learning Hippocratic Oath at some point in your schooling? First do no harm That turns out to not even be in the original oath but one of the many varied additions over the ages. The more often repeated phrase is translated as follows. “I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.” […]
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Day 965 and Bounce Back
I had a really shitty day yesterday. I was attuned to the haunted corners in myself and others. I was in an astonishing amount of pain. I got into a fight with a family member over a misunderstanding. I found myself in a state of reactivity. It’s a huge challenge to manage nervous system regulation […]
I’ve noticed an distinct uptick in pre-seed & seed startup founders looking to raise smaller rounds. If you think this post is about you, don’t fret I’m into the double digits with examples just this past month. Smaller rounds on reasonably capped SAFE notes are on everyone’s mind. While not everyone I’ve spoken to has […]
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Day 961 and Repeating 2003
Greetings, citizensWe are livingIn the ageIn which the pursuit of all valuesOther thanMoney success fame glamourHas either been discreditedOr destroyedMoney success fame glamourFor we are living in the age of the thing Felix da Housecat for the 2003 film “Party Animal” I wasn’t a club kid in the Iraq War era. I had not yet […]
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Day 957 and Will It Blend?
We are deep in the dog days of summer. I ran a fever and found myself dead asleep till nearly 1pm as my body valiantly struggled to process deluge of stress hormones I’d let pile up. I missed recording a podcast but the fever broke. I’ll catch up. Meanwhile, on the website formerly known as […]
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Day 956 and A Mood
It’s clearly the deep dog days of summer as I’m in a bit of a mood. I’ve got all kinds of things on my mind and yet it’s slow going executing on anything. The doldrums has certainly gripped me. And yet I take hope. This corner of Twitter is going through a paroxysmal fit of […]
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Day 954 and Frame Jacking
It’s a war of all against all on the internet. And I don’t recall being conscripted into any kind of war but here I am up to my neck in ontological shock and crisis of meanings as I read the news. Language is a virus. And we are all infected. I’ll let Ben Hunt of […]