Here I am at a Phoenix coffee house.
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I was in San Francisco recently for the Web 2.0 Expo with the Viddler team, and while there Viddler hosted a little party with a few people and someone named Cindy Li took my photo. I thought it was a pretty cool photo, so decided to post it here. The business card I’m holding is for our new web app.
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There was a homeless guy at the gas station today. I had stopped to get gas after setting up some servers, and was surprised when he ran over to meet me. He asked if I really was Superman, and asked to shake my hand.
I was wearing my Superman t-shirt and he kept saying how awesome it was to meet Superman.
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Here’s a quick video tour of our office in Phoenix.
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I have discovered something about myself that I find quite interesting. I’m really passionate about creating residual income. I’ve figured out that it’s one of my core beliefs.
As a core belief, it is also something that I strive to persuade my friends into achieving.
I think that most people in this world go about their lives content to earn a salary. They might earn $30,000 a year, or maybe a lot more, like $85,000 (insert your salary here). They spend a good portion of their lives going about this, but probably around 2,000 hours each year.
I haven’t been able to create many streams of residual income yet in my life, but I’m working on a web application that could become my primary means of income if it is popular.
The point of this post is really an observation: If you typically spend about 2,000 hours in a year generating a paycheck, what would happen if you devoted 10% of that time to building something that you could sell over and over again?
Let’s imagine you put 200 hours into building a widget. Let’s imagine that your widget can be reasonably sold to 1,000 people over the course of 5 years. If your widget made you $100 each time you sold it, you would have made an extra $100,000. Not a bad return on investment for 200 hours.
Taking this one step further, for all of you people who are stuck in jobs doing things for other people. Isn’t it about time that you stopped and invested some time back into a project of your own? People have GREAT ideas every single day yet they never invest the time to actually make them a reality.
I’m more than guilty of doing this myself. I get stuck in the middle of projects for clients (and don’t get me wrong, I love it! I get to learn about all kinds of businesses, and expand both my business acumen as well as my technical skills making web sites). But I never forget that I’m building their business. Not mine.
Who’s business are you building?
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I just took the Superhero Quiz and it agrees with the popular consensus. I am Superman.
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
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This is a note to let you all know that I already have a 2007 Lighthouse Calendar. Yup, I got mine a few weeks early this year. It’s only December 18th and I have mine already. Lucky me! So if you had this on your list to purchase for me, as a gift. It might be a good idea to think about something else. Maybe ear muffs, or a lantern.
Oh, I already have a Journal. Got that, too. It’s got a thousand pages in it that are empty. Just crying to be filled up with my thoughts. Ooops, I have about 6 blogs for that.
Maybe I’ll use it to draw designs.
The things that I haven’t received yet but am expecting: a small assortment of hot sauces. Another lighthouse calendar. And lastly, but not to be forgotten, socks.
Seasons greetings!
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Well, it’s been half of a year since I told any good stories here on my site. I haven’t really had any good ones. It seems that the more I work, the less stories I have. If I go out and do something I have a million stories to tell.
I’ve discovered that I am an introvert. I took a personality test which pretty much defined me as such (the opposite is an extrovert, so you’re either one or the other), and I’m in agreement. I never thought of myself as an introvert before now. It’s something I actually looked down upon as a weakness.
Observations:
- I tend to dislike social situations, unless I know most of the people and have known them for a long time.
- I’m in a sales position, and cannot for the life of me figure out how that happened considering my personality.
- This may explain why I’m not that excited about sites like MySpace.com and Facebook. Plus, it explains why I have so few friends on there.
- I hold a lot in.
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This one is from December, 2005:
Years ago at my old job at marchFIRST we were all ushered into a small conference room one busy morning and it was announced that we would soon have a new boss. Since our current boss was also in the meeting it made for an awkward moment. And then we found out that our current boss would be staying, too.
“Oh great, now I have two bosses!” all of us were thinking.
Our new boss was named Jon.
Jon started a little less than a week later and on his first day he made the rounds in our small cubicle farm (the creative department consisted at that time of about 7-8 people). When he approached my desk I said hello and then he pointed at a CD on my desk and said “I designed that CD cover.”
The CD in question was “Repeat the Sounding Joy” which is a Christmas track. You could call it a classic or an annoyance depending on how many times you’ve listened to it. I still like it.
Now here’s where it gets awkward because instead of having the actual CD with me I had an inkjet print of the original cover and a CD I had burned. My original was at home.
“Oh, well, this is just a copy I made from my other disk” I explained.
“Oh, sure” he replied.
Great way to meet a new boss.
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I hear that the new Superman movie doesn’t really shine. We all know why, of course. It’s because they didn’t get me to play the part. Even I could have predicted that!
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