“The problem comes when you postpone decisions in the hope that a perfect answer will come to you later. It won’t. You’re as likely to make a great call today as you are tomorrow.”
- Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
“I can’t believe I can’t get on Twitter today.” I actually just said that out loud. “Life ain’t right without Twitter,” my father-in-law responded. He’s right. Or at least that’s the way it feels.
I’m in the middle of the woods at my in-laws home. Ridgeville, South Carolina to be precise. They left Daniel Island recently, a home in the middle of everything cool, for a secluded home 30 minutes from anything. Their French style home now sits surrounded by the most beautiful snow many of us has ever seen in these here parts. It’s been 21 years since the South Carolina lowcountry has seen anything like this.
We haven’t had electricity in 12 hours. We can’t leave because trees now hang over the long driveway and we can’t get the neighborhood gate open. I’m not sure our little BMW could make it through the snow covering the driveway even if that wasn’t the case.
We have no water because the pump runs off electricity. We have a gas fireplace but the blower also runs off electricity. It’s getting cold. I have no Internet and as I write this word, I have 18 minutes of juice left in my macbook pro. I didn’t bring any magazines or books, but I do have a healthy stack of my mother-in-law’s Coastal Living and Southern Living magazines I could read.
You could say that I’m in paradise. We can cook with our gas-powered stove. We have a full supply of wine and beer. We don’t have a coffee maker, but we were able to heat water on the stove and make coffee the old fashion way. I have my wife, my dog, and some cool in-laws to hang out with. And we are so secluded that all we can see are white trees.
As I told you in a couple videos ago, our team has been testing out Google Wave. How’s it going? Watch this quick update.
State Rep-Elect Dan Hamilton twittered last week about the new storage application Drop Box and I have to tell you folks, I’m seriously freakin’ pumped about it. Get hooked up with Drop Box and throw away that key chain thumb drive. Just like this: Drop Box is a storage application that allows you to securely [...]
2nd in my productivity series. I’m not productive yet, but everyday I’m becoming more productive. It’s something I’ve been working on for weeks with the help of different books, websites, and other simple experimentations. I based my productivity on Pareto’s 80-20 Principle which was first brought to my attention by Tim Ferris in his book [...]
Believe it or not, it’s because of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. It all started at this year’s State of the State when Governor Mark Sanford once again continuously quoted Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat.” After years of hearing Governor Sanford recite Friedman during speech after speech I finally decided to read the book. [...]
