Iām not generally fond of resolutions. But for the past several years, with a few exceptions, Iāve spent some time at the first of eachĀ year to recap the previous yearās goals and accomplishments (and failures) and look forward to the new year. Itās never been something too strict, I havenāt always stuck to the same [...]
Itās hard to believe itās been 13 years since we launched 2BigFeet.com. More than 13 years since we were brainstorming in a back office of Shorewood Packaging about building a website for guys who couldnāt find shoes in their size. Iāve spent more than 40% of my life, and virtually all of my adult life, [...]
I know it's the holiday season because the parking lots are full of shoppers and the coffee shop is full from people trying to escape the cold. As much as I dislike shopping this time of year, I really love the holiday season. A lot of people slow down or take vacation, but this is [...]
Authorize.net, one of the largest payment gateways in the world, was down for 15 hours after a fire at Fisher Plaza, the Seattle, WA based datacenter where they were hosted. I was at Starbucks working on an email newsletter with an Independence Day promotion for 2BigFeet.com, and was just about to send it to our [...]
Some of my friends and family think Iām weird. I donāt believe in luck or superstition. At all. Iām one of those crazy people who thinks we make our own destiny with the choices we make every day. So when, once a year, everyone goes around making āresolutionsā for the new year I just kind [...]
