Thinking Out Loud

Reflections, lessons and perspective on faith, life, leadership and the in-between.

I Was Optimizing the Wrong Thing

I’m sitting in my home office, staring at what I thought was the perfect setup to get things done. Three monitors in front of me. My personal laptop open. iPad off to the side. Work phone and personal phone sitting next to each other like they’re both waiting for their moment. I was ready to tackle the day. At any given moment, I had work emails coming in, IMs popping up, phone calls rolling through, group chats going off and random tasks fighting for my attention. Yo

Oct 182 min read

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I Was Optimizing the Wrong Thing

I’m sitting in my home office, staring at what I thought was the perfect setup to get things done. Three monitors in front of me. My personal laptop open. iPad off to the side. Work phone and personal phone sitting next to each other like they’re both waiting for their moment. I was ready to tackle the day. At any given moment, I had work emails coming in, IMs popping up, phone calls rolling through, group chats going off and random tasks fighting for my attention. Yo

Oct 182 min read

The 38th Time’s the Charm

I am back. The number of times I have started working on and revamping this site over the past few years is honestly too funny to count at this point. I think about it at least once a quarter. I get inspired over a weekend, make a bunch of edits and try to come up with something better than before. Then I get frustrated with the technical backend and log off without making much progress. Looking back, I think I spent way too much time focused on the branding, the message, the

Oct 113 min read