Why the Yahoo acquisition of Tumblr is great: Focus

I’ve talked about the need to focus before on this blog. In fact, its advice I gave the younger me in a post as I reflected on what I’ve learned over the years. The ability for leaders to focus is what allows them to accomplish great things vs. produce a lot of mediocre things. After reading this…

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Kingdom Rush 2 is coming out…

Kingdom Rush remains the best iOS game I’ve ever played. And I still play it, well over a year after I first picked it up. It’s tower defense at its best. And now, there’s a new one coming out this Summer (the video says Spring but sources are saying Summer). And I can’t friggin’ wait.

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More on why personal offices generally suck

Love this passage from the Max Barry book, Company. A great way of describing my feelings on personal offices and why I’ll never have one again. Like every other department in Zephyr, Training Sales has an open floor plan, which means everyone works in a sprawling cubicle farm except the manager, who has an office…

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15 things you should give up to be happy #blindpost

This is a blindpost recommendation from @gumboshowjoe. You can see the original article if you want to compare (which I still haven’t). And I write a lot about being a happier, more positive person, but I don’t think I’ve ever written about the things you should give up in order to do so, which turned out…

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