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Turning my office into a video studio

eric shannon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:51:53 +0000

As I watched online video taking over the Internet, my video lust grew stronger every year. Finally the lust overcame my fears and now I’m in the game! I’ve produced a couple videos for ORN (sample hosted on Wistia below). I’m hardly a natural, but why should that stop me? Since I enjoy seeing other’s [...]

Inspirational family meeting videos

eric shannon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:52:14 +0000

We try to hold a family meeting on the weekend as often as we can. I’ve covered topics such as listening skills, attitudes of winners and losers, peacemaking skills, and conversational skills for my 8 and 10-year-old daughters. Their favorite part to-date has been role-playing bad listening skills with us – they’re experts! Their second [...]

Our first blade server

eric shannon — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:12:43 +0000

Yes, I know we should be on the cloud floating around in heaven with everyone else! But we have a brainy team that enjoys the challenge of getting top performance for every dollar. And that’s why we will be installing this sexy server soon. during assembly: assembled: installed:

Rob Symington on Escape the City

eric shannon — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:16:12 +0000

If you’ve ever taken the road less traveled or dreamed about it, you’ll appreciate what partners Dom Jackman and Rob Symington launched in March of last year at EscapeTheCity.org. First, here’s Rob’s bio: Rob is the co-founder of Escape the City. The community for corporate professionals who want to ‘do something different’. He is interested [...]

Need a vacation!

eric shannon — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:11:34 +0000

I read almost every book that Verne Harnish recommends so when I saw this in his recent newsletter, I ordered do more faster a couple minutes later. Verne wrote: “Brad Feld Saved His Marriage — last month I read Brad’s outstanding book Do More Faster. Aimed at tech start-ups, there are plenty of lessons for [...]

Top 100 job search websites and categories

eric shannon — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:31:04 +0000

This is the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job search categories. For each top employment category it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job search websites. Before you start, a quick reminder that if your job search skills are weak, it won’t matter how many jobs you apply to. Start here with The [...]

Barefoot in Boulder

eric shannon — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:07:04 +0000

A solution for everything (or almost). After struggling with foot pain for 7 years, I read Born to Run (also Barefoot Running) and got fired up about trying out barefoot. It took 3 or 4 months to work up tough enough pads to do real hikes but I enjoyed most of it tremendously. Every once [...]

How to Become King

eric shannon — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:14:35 +0000

I love to teach. As obsessed as I’ve been with learning business for the past 14 years, it’s only natural that I like teaching my kids what I’ve learned. My girls are 8 and 10 years old so I love to find materials that really engage them. Much of the time, the things we talk [...]

Job boards will lead the next productivity boom

eric shannon — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:11:17 +0000

I’m as disappointed as anyone about the weak economic recovery we have experienced in 2010. And I could not be more disappointed about but the piss-poor state of education and culture of indulgence in America. We do face a long-term structural problem in the economy as a result of our mixed up priorities. However, as [...]

Lesson from Boulder’s Four Mile Fire

eric shannon — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:25:51 +0000

Get the real facts. On the second day of the Four Mile Canyon fire, we knew that a good number of homes in my parents neighborhood had already burned. On the third day, I found a satellite image showing their home had not been burned. I was overcome with relief after days of tension. But [...]