Recently my friend Nick sent me this video, during a discussion about staying motivated through the hard parts of building our dream projects. I’d forgotten how much I loved it when it first came out ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Such an amazing motivational piece. I’ve bookmarked it; it…
Yearly Goals 2015 Edition
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. —Bill Copeland I know a lot of folks who poo-poo “New Years resolutions”, and with good reason. Firstly, New Years itself is fairly arbitrary: there’s nothing intrinsically special about…
The Hazard of Scheduled Posts
After jotting a note in my Catch Sheet to write a blog post about the Five Thirty Eight/Twilight Struggle article, it took a while to get it put together, which, as already noted in my post, gave time for the WSJ to drop the Green Bay Packers/Catan bombshell before it…
“Golden Era of Board Gaming” — 538
At the end of last year, this morsel came across my radar several times… (shout-outs to Andy Stone, Eric Budd, and Mitch Hulse for passing it along! I love that so many of you thought of me when you saw this). You should go take a moment to read it…
Tips for running an effective board game play-test
As I find myself deeper and deeper in the design process for Valour, the more I’ve come to appreciate how tight so many commercially-available board games are. In that vein, I’ve been doubling down on the play test schedule, because (to my mind), there is no better way to smooth the…
30 Day Mobility Challenge
Hot on the heels of the release of our first card deck, I’m excited to announce the Mobility on Demand “30 Day Mobility Challenge”! It’s a 30-day email series delivering a new mobility exercise directly to your inbox every morning. We even link to an online timer so you can…
The Importance of a Catch Sheet
One of my most valued characteristics is both a blessing and a curse. I have a creative mind and am constantly coming up with ideas for projects, gadgets, games, apps, solutions, etc. This is awesome, and I love it, except that it never takes a vacation, including and especially when…
Ignite Ticket Swap Postmortem: Ignite 24
Another Ignite Boulder sell-out can only mean one thing: A busy December for Ignite Ticket Swap! If you’ve never heard of Ticket Swap, you can read a bit about it here. Yule Ball Ticket Swapping by the numbers: # of people asking for a ticket: 75 # of people who posted extra…
Sesame Street: Star S’Mores Star Wars Parody – YouTube
I’m a sucker for both Muppets and Star Wars Parody. Sesame Street: Star S’Mores Star Wars Parody – YouTube.
Featured on BLDRPPL
Recently my friend Sean Helvey asked me to participate in his upstart podcasting project, BLDRPPL. While he iterates on the exact format, his consistent overarching theme is is “people you admire in Boulder”. As he and I were discussing the episode I would be on, he asked me to invite someone who…