Personally This year I embraced becoming a father and loved every minute of it. I started off the year with two weeks of paternity leave. When you have a tiny human that you and your wife are responsible for, it’s an incredible feeling. It’s been great being alongside Violet during her first year journey. Violet’s…
Understanding Your Customers’ Journey: Improve the Way You Help Your Customers Dieter Rams. Photo by Gary Hustwit. Dieter Rams Two weeks ago, a small group of our Headway crew (mixed with crew from design, development, and marketing) took the short trip down to Milwaukee for the RAMS documentary premiere by Gary Hustwit. I saw the documentary pop up on kickstarter a couple years ago and decided…
A Brief Background When I think about it, I’ve really been into minimalism for a while, giving it my own meanings without really knowing exactly how other people approach their pursuit of owning less to make the rest more meaningful. For me, the journey of less started when my wife and I sold or donated…
Before writing this post, I reflected back at my reviews of 2016, 2015, and 2014. Each year had it’s challenges and victories, and each year I learned and grew both personally and professionally. The trend of growth continued this past year in 2017. I love new challenges, new obstacles, and figuring out effective ways to solve…
Improving Design Versioning, Collaboration & Process with Abstract As we settled back into the Wisconsin lifestyle and stark transition from the Aloha Lifestyle in Hawaii, 2016 was great, but it had plenty of struggles. Overall, it was a pretty eventful year filled with lots of travels, new experiences, and growth. Colorado Snowboarding My brother and I bought brand new snowboarding setups in our…
Introducing Seaworthy – A Podcast about Building Successful Software It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 6 months Today since my wife and I moved back from the land of Aloha, oceans, and mountains. It’s been an abrupt but gradual transition back into the life we used to live for 25+ years before we experienced the Aloha lifestyle. The biggest changes are the weather,…
A Year on an Island Made me Grow. There is a huge list of things that go through your mind when you have a dream of traveling and moving somewhere entirely new. It’s scary, frightening, freeing and exciting all at the same time. My wife and I had a dream to move to Hawai’i on…
Priority Required In my last post I talked about getting time back on your side and that we need to think about time differently. With that said, we really need to focus on prioritizing our time and planning it out, otherwise it gets spent in ways that we can’t control. There are always going to…
We all realize that time is essential. We all have the same amount, and only by being intentional and ruthlessly prioritizing what’s important can we get out of it what we want. Regardless of what phase in life we’re at, we all have similar factors that pull us in different directions; family, friends, business/work, fitness,…
This is a documentarianistic post about Epicurrence No. 2, from October 3rd – 9th, so it is quite lengthy! All photos were taken by me and my FujiFilm X-A2 or iPhone 6+ unless otherwise noted. What is Epicurrence? Epicurrence is the brainchild of Dann Petty. He started it less than a year ago with the…
I’ve been reading a lot of books lately, but I need to start digesting and applying more of the advice and actions within the books. I consume a lot of content from a plethora of mediums; Twitter, Medium, Blogs, Magazines, Books, Podcasts, etc, but I’ve realized that most of this content goes un-implemented. There are…
Tweet Live Video The Meerkat landing page says just that. It allows you to start a live video stream from the app which then tweets that your show has started. Meerkat was founded by Ben Rubin, and built on Twitter’s Fabric platform. Up until Saturday morning, it tied into Twitter’s social graph meaning that it…
I walk up to the counter at Starbucks and order my usual white chocolate mocha. I’m in mid-training season for a combine and I start to think about how many calories I just ordered. Is the preferred taste worth it? I make this purchase all the time, how is this affecting me overall? Usually the decisions…
I wanted to make a list and share a lot of the podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis. There’s so much great content out there from great hosts, guests, and so much to learn from others. “Good people learn a lesson once. Great people learn the lesson from someone else’s mistakes.” I especially enjoy podcasts…
It’s a brand new year and while I don’t base my goal setting on the calendar, I do take time to reflect on the past year. What did I do? What did I complete? What did I let slip that I really wanted to finish and why isn’t it done? How do I get better…
When my wife and I were planning to move to Hawaii in October, one of the first things I did was look up the startup communities, hubs, and events on Oahu. After settling in and arriving, I bought my designer pass to Startup Weekend Honolulu as a good introduction to meet some new people and build…
A couple months ago Drew invited me to come on his & Keirans new podcast, Narwhals, and we were able to catch up and schedule a time that worked. What is Narwhals? “A podcast about design, development, business, family and fun. Join Drew Wilson and Keiran Flanigan as they share their experience on making a…
WELCOME Welcome to my new website! I’m glad that I finally made time to make it – I’m really looking forward to writing and posting recent work here. I’m going to be documenting thoughts through this blog with a variety of topics about design, startups, products, and just life in general. Writing helps you articulate and…
