I waste too much time online, especially on social networks like Facebook. I saw a quote the other day from Seth Godin: Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. -Seth Godin This really hits home with me. I often find myself … Read more
Going Full-time as a Work from Home Employee
The office I work out of is running out of space. A few weeks ago I was asked if I wanted to give up my desk to become a full-time remote employee. There are a few reason I was chosen as one of the people asked to give up their desks. First of all my commute … Read more
IBM Watson Explorer
I’m going to talk a little bit about IBM Watson Explorer (WEX). A few people have contacted me about what I do at my day job as a Watson Explorer Consultant. Since this is my personal site I don’t usually focus on what I do at my 9-5. I’m going to write a few posts … Read more
Overcoming the Anxiety of Publishing Online
You know the feeling. You’ve just spent a small chunk of your life writing a blog post. As you slowly scroll to the right, your mouse hovers over the publish button. With a finger on the mouse button, you pause for a second. As you stop to think your palms get clammy. The beating in your chest … Read more
Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
This is the history of my experience trying to make money online over the past 10 years or so. This is by far the longest post I’ve ever personally written and it’s more of an autobiography than a blog post. I feel like I need to purge some of this stuff from my head so … Read more
One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…
… and I have no idea what it is. I used to blog actively on my tutorial site, TeamTutorials. In it’s prime the site would see over 100k page views per month. Even in the prime the site barely met the $100 Google AdSense monthly payout threshold. After 2-3 years of not posting it now … Read more
Hello world!
Wow, it’s been a few years since I’ve actually blogged regularly. To the point that I actually killed my old blog and don’t think it would be valuable to revive it. So I’m starting from scratch, again. If you came here looking for an old post that was linked to I apologize but they are … Read more