While Daring Greatly

My name is Adam. I'm a Husband. Father of six. Wearer of fedoras. Startup co-founder (with an exit). Nonprofit co-founder. I create content about personal growth in life and leadership.

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While Daring Greatly

My name is Adam. I'm a Husband. Father of six. Wearer of fedoras. Startup co-founder (with an exit). Nonprofit co-founder. I create content about personal growth in life and leadership.

Connect with me:

My Podcasts:

LATEST POSTS

Marketing

How to Not Waste Time on Social Media as a Nonprofit

July 15, 2020
Marketing / Personal

My New Gig and How I Got There

Adoption / Leadership / Perspective / Productivity

Medium Posts from February – Part 1

Business / Personal / Perspective

Posts from the week of 1/24/20

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Nov 15

Productivity Experiment – Day 3 – Energy Management

Today is about energy. Specifically, what gives us energy and what drains our energy. We will make two lists: Things that give us energy. This may be things like a...
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Nov 14

Productivity Experiment – Day 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3i-cai_oUg Today is all about goals. I want to think through and know what my goals are so I know if I'm on track. I'll be using my 5/5/5 method...
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Nov 14

Productivity Experiment – Day 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HDaIrO1l0o Today I started my productivity experiment to get myself focused and on track. It's been great! I'm starting by making a list of the things that are important to...
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Nov 12

The Two Week Productivity Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUb1xlmrC0 In the last few months, my life has turned upside down. We started the adoption process to adopt our 6th child, moved, changed schools and cars, and a larger...
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Nov 08

Fringe Tech and Fritters

Yesterday I gave a talk at Dragon Army titled Fringe Tech and Fritters. You guessed it, we ate fritters and talked about fringe tech! My talk focused on three technologies...
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Oct 08

15 Experiments to run on yourself that may make your life better

I recently listened to an episode of the podcast Hidden Brain about getting unstuck. One of the things they talk about is taking a software development idea and applying it to your...
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Sep 12

Who Pushes You?

This morning I ran two miles at 9:04 per mile. That's a good minute and a half faster than my usual pace. I ran the same course, with the same...
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Sep 05

Thankful for Unexpected Help

Last Saturday, we loaded up the kids and went to a friend's garage sale. We don't need more stuff; we went to say thank you. This friend's young daughter knew...
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Aug 22

The OODA Loop I’m teaching my kids… and myself

My kids need situational awareness. They focus on the wrong things at the wrong time, get lost in thought when they should be present, and interrupt conversations when they should...