CEO’s Choice of $70,000 Minimum Salary for Employees: What Do You Think?

You may have seen a story floating around on Facebook last week about the CEO of a Seattle-based credit-card processing company, Gravity Payments, decided to enact a new minimum salary for every full-time employee: $70,000. As discussed in detail here, CEO Dan Price read an article about how peoples’ happiness significantly increases when they earn … Read more

Distractions and Creativity

Last year I wrote about how my increase in productivity and efficiency since getting a second computer monitor. I continue to love my multiple-monitor setup, but I’ve noticed that it–and my computer–are actually quite counterproductive for a specific subset of my job: creativity. Part of my job involves designing and developing board games, so I spend … Read more

Your Favorite Speakers

I’ve been asked to participate on a panel about crowdfunding and Kickstarter next Tuesday in front of about 200 people. I’ve been on a few of these panels in the past year, and for each one I’ve tried to work in some new skills that I’ve observed from my favorite speakers (usually TED talks): ask … Read more

Patrick Rothfuss in Candyland

A week or so ago, Patrick Rothfuss (an amazing writer) posted a blog entry about playing Candyland with his kid. Feel free to check it out. I’ll wait. Or I’ll just recap the key part below for you. You might recall Candyland from your childhood with fond memories, probably because you played it while your … Read more

Try It Before You Buy It

I read a story on ESPN regarding an NFL player who I now really admire. Before I get to that, let me back up to my college years. At some point in college, I decided that what I wanted to do after college was own a restaurant. I didn’t have many reasons for doing so–I … Read more

Leadership Tactic #84: First to Arrive, Last to Leave? Not for Me

I was watching the Chiefs/Colts game this weekend, and the announcers were talking about the Colts’ wide receivers. Apparently when Reggie Wayne was lost for the season about 8 weeks ago, the rest of the receiver core stepped up and got the Colts into the playoffs. The announcers supported the dedication of those receivers by … Read more