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) →