CEO currency, Big Red Car?
Big Red Car here on a brightening Austin morning, y’all. On Earth as it is in Texas!
So, The Boss gets a call from a CEO pal and they get into a chat. Chat takes a turn toward the philosophical.
CEO sayeth, “I need to get paid.”
The Boss says, “Have I ever shared with you my views on CEO currency?”
“No, but something tells me that’s about to change. Bring it.”
Writing = discipline, Big Red Car? Tell me more.
Big Red Car here on a lovely Monday morning, waiting for the painters to show up. House getting painted, not the Big Red Car. Alas.
So, The Boss is doing some writing. He’s been a writer for a long time, but now he’s out of the closet. Had a few things published and is working hard.
Learned it takes about five years to find one’s voice and to find a focus which is worthy of one’s talent. You have to become a story teller.
But, here’s the big thing — writing requires discipline and there is both art and science to it.
Big Red Car here with a new roof over my head. For “61 squares” — meaning 61 X 100SF/square — cost $18,650. That’s about $3.05/SF. Nicely done, Prosperity Roofing.
OK, so today I share some rules with y’all. We’re talking CEO Rules.
Ready?
Jessica A Ellis was a combat medic who was killed in Iraq on Mother’s Day 2008.
Sunday is Mother’s Day. It made me think of her.
May 29, Monday, is Memorial Day. I will think of her again.
On Sunday, I want you to take a second and think about the price of freedom and who we ask to pay it. If a tear comes to your eye, all the better.
Jessica A Ellis, combat medic, KIA 101st Airborne Division, Iraq, May 2008. Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, M4 Expert marksman.
Big Red Car here in secret telling mode. Guy sends a hateful email to The Boss saying, “Why can’t I get on the Wisdom of the Campfire website?” Pushy sort of human.
So, Big Red Car tells him, “It’s a fiction. That’s the name The Boss uses for his CEO coaching gig. Doesn’t have anything to do with you.”
“But, there’s a domain and y’all control it. Are you hiding something?”
“No,” sayeth the Big Red Car. “Nothing to hide.”
Internet, today we talk the size and breadth of the Internet.
Big Red Car here on a gray day with a new roof almost finished on my house. My house.
So, The Boss comments on the Internet using Disqus as “JLM.” You can find his fingerprints if you look.
One of his favorite blogs is AVC.com which is an extraordinary blog about all things venture capital.
Who doesn’t love criticism? Haha. Me, too.
Big Red Car here on a grayish day in the ATX. Getting a new roof, so I have to get finished quick as the mortar fire (the dropping of bundles of shingles on the roof from height) starts in three, two, one! Bam!
This is roofing. This is chaos. This was done voluntarily. This is the Big Red Car’s parking space.
OK, so today we talk about the breakfast of champions — criticism. Who doesn’t love some criticism?
So, when you’re a writer, you join a couple of writer’s confabs. You go to some coffee shop — dude, it has to be a coffee shop because coffee shops kept the light of learning aglow during the Dark Ages, right? before Starbucks even — and bring 2-3,000 words of you latest masterpiece with which to WOW your fellow writers. You feel it?
Telling stories and storytellers, Big Red Car? Whatsup?
Big Red Car here on a lovely Monday. On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all.
One of the things I have to put up with is The Boss hogging the computer. He’s always writing something and he’s gotten a few stories published. Like the guy needed a little more to humble brag about. This has been going on for a long time, but he’s just in the last five years admitted it publicly that he’s some kind of a writer. Who knew?
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