As a tech startup this day and age it can be tough to get exposure. The common route is to fire up all your social media channels, get blogged about on some top tech blogs, and hope that the flood of people that come to your site like it, tell their friends, and come back [...]

This morning my wife Emily started talking about a book she was reading that really struck a chord with me. The book is about a girl who struggled throughout school. She was disruptive in class so the school wrote her off as “challenged” and sent her to a “special” school. Her parents then sent her [...]

A few weeks ago I tried tandem paragliding at Makapu’u. Amazing experience. We flew all the way over to Waimanalo and back. The flight was an hour long. Raymar (Ray) was an awesome pilot.

Switzerland has enlightened me. The Swiss really have their green thing going on, and there’s a few things that have me scratching my head thinking “why the hell doesn’t the US adopt this stuff?” Are we too proud to admit that another country has done something better? It’s time to swallow our pride and adopt [...]

Ok it’s about time I did a youtube video, and I’ve been wanting to take new Flip video camera that my wife got for Xmas (thanks Dad!) for a test drive. You’ll have to forgive the amateur quality of this video, this was my first iMove experience, and I think from now on I’ll use [...]

Lately I’ve noticed that my productivity goes down when i listen to music while I work. The music tends to distract me. I’ll listen to the lyrics, enjoy the pounding bass, nod my head, and jiggle my hips while I rock out to whatever iTunes decides to randomly play from my music library. Its a [...]

I recently read the book Rich Dad / Poor Dad which was a really enlightening book. Its the unique viewpoint of a person who was raised by 2 main mentors in life. One of them was his real dad…the poor one who was all about getting the good education and good job and working hard [...]