Niall Doherty 
1 Cold calling today. I used to try trick these contractors into thinking I might be a customer, so they wouldn’t hang up on me right away. But many of them could sense something was amiss. Probably because of my accent. I don’t sound like their typical customer. Better be direct. 2 More calls today, …
1 Fifteen years since I’d read Any Human Heart, just read it a second time. Phenomenal. Reminds me of the beauty and tragedy of a human life. From true love and the company of a king, to heartbreaking losses and a dog food diet. We all know our final destination, but the stops along the …
1 Some receptionists here, when you ask if they speak English, will respond with a proud and defiant no, accompanied by a look that says, tough shit. The lady yesterday was different. She spoke very little English, but she was kind and compassionate, helped us get everything sorted in slow Spanish. Thank you, nice human. …
1 Resonating with Matt Giovanisci, saying he no longer wants to share his entrepreneur journey online. It was largely an ego thing for me as well. But now I’d rather keep my head down, make a ton of money from my business, and never tell the internet. 2 Cold calling is easier some days than …
1 AI has lots of knowledge, but not much wisdom. It does many an SEO task for me now, but I can’t just trust it blindly, have to push back against its recommendations, ask why it came to certain conclusions. One day I will probably be holding it back, but for now it still needs …
1 Seeing this guy getting cancelled online. No real proof he did anything wrong, but that counts for nothing. People on social media, eager to virtue signal and jump on the bandwagon. No room for nuance, no benefit of the doubt. Makes me sad that this is the world we live in. 2 Felt like …
1 I used to allow myself to skip one workout each month. But that would sometimes be stressful, trying to squeeze in a workout on busy days. Finally I realized: less exercise with less stress > more exercise with more stress. So now I allow myself to skip up to five workouts each month. 2 …
1 Jessica Livingston published Founders at Work back in 2007, a series of interviews with founders of startups like PayPal, Apple, Yahoo, Adobe, TripAdvisor. From the intro… I’d say determination is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If the founders I spoke with were superhuman in any way, it was in their …
1 If I could go back in time to see one music act perform live, it’d probably be Creedence. They were only active from 1968 to 1972, an incredible 4-year run. John Fogerty is 80 years old now, been making music his whole life. Must be weird to have done your best work a half …
1 Apparently overweight people lose weight much easier when they can put aside feelings of shame and become more accepting of their situation. Gets me thinking about how I handle feeling tired or burned out. I resist it, feel ashamed of it. Which likely makes it worse. 2 Reading about that famous Little Hans case …