Theres an old joke in business: So a manager shows up to work in a Ferrari. The engineer asks him how he was able to get a Ferrari. The manager says: 'You know Steve, if you work hard, put in the hours, stay focused... next year I might get another one.'
Circa the Spring of 2023 I popped into a garage sale while I was driving through midtown Reno. The garage sale was a multi-house garage sale on a weird lot close to a old recording studio.
I had a conversation with an executive who was trying to guide a full time Entrepreneur through some business nuances. He was asking this entrepreneur about their sales cycle time, funnel management, prospect/account attribution...
I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (*not if*) an emergency occurs.
There is no budget for books at my house or at my company. Now this may be a confusing statement to read so here is what I mean: There is no budget for books does not mean that we have not allocated money for books...
Life's most important moments, the ones who shape us and determine our success or failure by our own definitions largely occur when individuals are under pressure and stress
We've been teaching my kids about 'the continents' and to the credit of my kid he asked me 'what makes a continent?' Off the top of my head I didn't know precisely where the definition came from
I've watched a couple of interviews/ podcasts where JJ Reddick has talked about what makes a great athlete/ great basketball player. Here's his model...
Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that 'Bloodletting' was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years. I'm kind of spellbound by the duration- it was one hell of a lindy effect. Our first evidence of its use appeared in Egypt...
Jon Paul Uritis (a.k.a. Pope) is a Canadian-American Entreprenuer, Software Engineer, Writer, and Musician based out of Reno, Nevada. When he's not working on an Getting People Educated, playing in Free Tequila, or spending time with his amazing family, you'll probably find him reading, playing beach volleyball, surfing, or apparently writing in the 3rd person on his website.
