Review

Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

May 25, 2011

I love the words, love the axe and love the overall message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance, the third book released under Seth Godin’s Domino Project (I’m a member of the street team). I wanted to love this entire book, but I just can’t. Perhaps my digitally inclined, ADHD-addled brain just can’t process long-form [...]

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Hangover Live Blog

May 15, 2011

I’ve never seen The Hangover. I don’t know how it ends, but I do know who’s in it, that there’s a baby involved and that Mike Tyson likely punches someone. Because I’ll be watching Hangover 2 at a bachelor party in a few weeks, I figured it was time to get 2009′s most popular comedy [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee) on small business, social media and The Thank You Economy

March 30, 2011

I’m not much of a celebrity fan. I don’t follow them on Twitter, I don’t watch them on TV and I generally avoid seeing them speak. Even most of the “web” celebs typically annoy me, as they mostly have become caricatures of themselves, spewing the kind of duh garbage they would have ridiculed years ago. [...]

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How To Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide (book review)

March 28, 2011

This book pissed me off. While I’m only near halfway through, I absolutely loathe this book. The smug satisfaction, the elitist attitude and the nonchalance that the author displays when documenting his (mostly true…I think) failures hit me in the only place that I have little protection. My id. This book makes me feel exactly [...]

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Gaping Void’s Evil Plans (book review)

March 19, 2011

There’s nothing truly groundbreaking in Hugh MacLeod’s new book, Evil Plans. No secrets to a four-hour work week, no promise of a life lived unconventionally and certainly no instructions on how to deliver happiness. But MacLeod’s understated brilliance doesn’t lay in those areas. MacLeod’s most important point in his entire novel can be found on [...]

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12News LunchCast with Brahm, Jose and Elise

March 5, 2011

Being on TV is fun, even if you have nothing super important to say. I’ve somehow been asked more than a few times to appear on the local news, and it’s always been a really cool experience. The following video is the second half of an appearance by me, Jose Gonzalez and Elise Redlin-Cook. I [...]

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No flour, sugar or Diet Coke – Is this Paleo?

March 3, 2011

It’s Day 39 of my Body Fat Reduction Challenge. I’m down 13 pounds from when I started, but haven’t lost a bit of weight in nearly two weeks. I’m not eating a ton of food, I work out 5-6 days a week and don’t eat much that I don’t prepare myself. But that’s not enough. [...]

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Lessons from a failure slut

February 28, 2011

There’s shame in failure. Having an idea backfire is embarrassing. Sometimes, this means you’ll feel like s***. Sometimes, you’ll cry. Sometimes you’ll bury your head so deep no one can get to you. But failure won’t kill you. It will hurt and it may linger, and you damn well better learn from it. But what [...]

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I believe in Blake Griffin

February 20, 2011

It’s not always easy to like the NBA. In a league of 450 players, nearly 50 of those are straight-up thugs elevated from broken homes, dysfunctional families and a lifetime of coddling. The odds certainly aren’t on their side. The past ten years have brought most fans a bevy of disappointment. Rookies were given too [...]

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Before Tosh.0, there was Daniel Tosh

February 18, 2011

(This article was originally published for Ignite, a pocket-sized publication produced by the same team responsible for kontakt. I got a good chuckle reading it, as the differences between writing for print and the web, along with my own improvement since 2006, are very apparent. I’ve edited it only to replace URLs with hyperlinks.) Daniel [...]

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