Inspired by Mike’s post Why Sitting is Killing You, this week I’ve been experimenting with my own version of a standing desk. Since giving up my downstairs office for a teenage bedroom, and truth be told, long before then, I’ve all but abandoned using my desk, so I figured it was probably a good time [...]

Steve Jobs died today. I join with people around the world who were both inspired by his brilliance and are now praying for his family and friends.

If you’re a Facebook user, are you subscribed to Zuck, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerburg? From the looks of it, more than five million people are subscribed because he converted his Facebook fans to subscribers. Zuckerberg may already have more subscribers than your favorite celebrity! To see if you’re subscribed, go to your profile and click [...]

I’m buying Rumors of Water, the latest book by L. L. Barkat. Today. Why? Two Three Reasons. In non-technical terms, there’s some weird book-buying algorithm thingee that promotes books to the top of best seller lists if they sell a bunch of books on launch day. Today is that day. Because L. L. is a friend, I’d [...]

I’m a long-time fan of Zappos for numerous reasons. They’re customer focused. They’re fun! But it wasn’t until I read Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki that I realized Zappos is also trustworthy. According to Kawasaki, “Zappos is built on trust – two-way trust, actually.” Customers trust Zappos’ money-back guarantee with free shipping (both ways) and Zappos [...]

I’m surprised by the resistance of folks who’ve held on to the old school rule of double spacing after a period. Typing teachers started it all, out of necessity. Something about a spacing issue between fonts on a typewriter. Blah blah blah. Then journalists, publishers and college professors got on the bandwagon because of some [...]

If you’re looking for an expert, you should probably close your browser window now. No guilt, no pressure, and even my bounce rate will protect your anonymity. :) But if you’re still reading… Here’s What I Mean I’ve been thinking about expertise a lot lately and I have a very real sense that I’ve got [...]

Craig Groeschel started the third session at Catalyst One Day hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg with a quote attributed to Bill Hybels: “The way I was doing the work of God was destroying the work of God in me.” Leaders need to have personal spiritual momentum. Above all else, when a church [...]

Here are my notes from the second session (led by Craig Groeschel) at Catalyst One Day at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg. A lie believed as truth will affect you as truth. (Craig told the story of one of his colleagues held captive because of his wrong mindset – trapped in the closet, nothing [...]

Here are my notes from Andy Stanley’s first session of Catalyst One Day at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg. Momentum is forward motion fueled by a series of wins. If you have momentum and you don’t know why, you’re one stupid decision away from loosing it. If you don’t know why you had it [...]