I’ve been making a lot of adjustments lately to my portfolio website and to my site structure. I know, I know – I keep writing about it. But I just haven’t been satisfied. Even now, I’m not sure if I like what I have, but its definitely better...
I’ve been working hard lately – getting new clients, building sites, trying new things, and pushing the limits on my skill-set. Its been good. I’ve been happy to have a continual flow of work. The problem is that I’m not learning very much....
To be honest, right now I’m a bit tired of writing on Design to Startup. I don’t know why. Maybe its just that I’m burnt out. Maybe I wrote too much, too fast. Or maybe its that I “need a mission statement” for the site as one of my...
Running a business or writing a blog is most beneficial when you can connect well to your particular audience. The main way to do this is by producing great content (or great product/service in the case of a business). But another very important way to do this is by...
My wife and I are moving out of the country within the next 3 months. We just haven’t decided where yet. After months of research and applications, we have narrowed it down to two possible options (I have to be slightly vague about the exact locations for now):...
At one time, there were only two Apple fans in my family: my brother and I. He had been an Apple fan for a while, and I bought my first Apple products in 2010: an iPhone 4 and a 13″ Macbook Pro. My family thought it was cool, but too expensive. Pretty, but too...
Read a good article today called Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is Great read for me. The key quote: “Here’s the big lesson: Many founders think that the worst outcome you can have in a startup is failure. You try something and it fails. And...
I can be very analytical at times. I will think things through until I have explored every option, considered every alternative, and double checked all of my facts. Sometimes it gets so far that its debilitating and reaches the point of analysis paralysis. Other...
Several months ago, I asked myself this question: Should I use my personal name for my design portfolio, or come up with a new “company-style” name? I had been using BradyMower.com for my portfolio, but I didn’t want to indefinitely, so I decided it...
I lost a client yesterday. We had talked and agreed on what I was going to do. We had agreed on the hourly rate, we had set a time frame. Then I sent the agreement… He essentially said that the contract scares him, and that he had expected something less...
