Michael Jordan – How Important is Practice?

As a guy growing up in Chicago in the 90's Michael Jordan was the guy you wanted to be like and the Bulls were the team to watch. It was a great decade for Chicago basketball so everyone knew of MJ and watched him closely. My favorite quote is near the end when he mentions … Continue reading Michael Jordan – How Important is Practice?

Psych! 5 Brain Tricks to Make Customers Buy

As an aside, if you're not following the Inc page on facebook, twitter, or just regularly going there you're missing a wealth of great business information.  With such an established magazine they report on a lot of great business topics (and really know how to write a headline, as shown above). Below are the 5 … Continue reading Psych! 5 Brain Tricks to Make Customers Buy

What Designing Over 10,000 UI Screens Taught This Veteran Creative

This article about design may not be as relevant to everyone, but as it's dealing with a consistent and repeatable process the core nuggets are extremely valuable, whatever the service, process or widget that you offer. It's posted on design taxi from a post he wrote on medium, and I'm writing down mostly the design … Continue reading What Designing Over 10,000 UI Screens Taught This Veteran Creative

Chicago Love Note – day time

This was a video filmed and edited by Michael Rataj on a trip downtown to Chicago.  It's added to the homepage so it's the first thing you see when you visit the site, but I wanted to make sure it gets seen via a blog! 🙂 I'd love to hear your thoughts.  It's been a … Continue reading Chicago Love Note – day time

19 Minutes That Can Change Your Life by Earl Nightingale (Full Transcript)

As entrepreneurs and business owners a positive attitude is basically how well our business does.  We must always be thinking positively otherwise we'd close the door if 2 people walk out and don't buy anything.  Keeping the goal in mind as to why we started on this path can help keep our mind straight.  It's … Continue reading 19 Minutes That Can Change Your Life by Earl Nightingale (Full Transcript)