work

Introducing Scenely.com!

December 13, 2010

Last week I launched a new company called Scenely.com that I started with three other partners: Matt Thompson, Adam Miller and Jason Koi. The concept is simple. With digital point-n-shoot cameras, DSLRs, HD camcorders and even mobile phones shooting 720p and better, the world is capturing events at an unprecedented scale. However, even with easy to [...]

Read on →

Lessons Learned in 2008: Use Your Leverage

March 26, 2009

Getting things to go your way in the workplace is not always easy.  You have to use all of the tools in your arsenal to convince others that what you want is best for a project, your team, the company or yourself.  Sometimes that tool is charm.  Sometimes it’s humor.  Sometimes you have to drop [...]

Read on →

Lessons Learned in 2008: Work With the Best

February 14, 2009

I’m so glad 2008 is over.  It was a difficult and stressful year—perhaps the most difficult of my short 10-year professional career. “Never again,” I’ve been telling myself in hopes of avoiding a repeat year. So I’m going to be dedicating a few posts over the next few days (or weeks) discussing some of the important things that really [...]

Read on →

Not What It Seems

March 3, 2008

For a while I’ve had ongoing conversations within my group of business friends about core businesses.  The conversation goes like this:  companies say they do Y but act like a company that does Z.  It’s a discrepancy in perception (or public relations) and actuality (which usually isn’t so public).  I was reminded of this topic this morning [...]

Read on →