Gus pointed me to a post about Entrepreneurial Proverbs and in one of the comments that was a link to a really good article that resonated with me: Top Signals of Success for Software Entrepeneurs from OnStartups.com. It is a list of 15 traits that successful software entrepreneurs share. Now I think its healthy to …

One of the things that’s a reality is that business is risky. But one of the ways to reduce that risk is to form an LLC, a Limited Liability Company. Yes, that’s right – it basically means Reduce Your Risk Company. It is especially helpful if you have any type of assets. That is why …

Congratulations to Brian Cooke, a good friend and the guy behind roobaSoft! He is taking his first steps in The Life. He released rooVid Lite 1.0 yesterday. It lets you convert iMovies and other video to other video formats. For example, you can take a home movie and convert it to both playable on a …

Steadily cranking away at WebnoteHappy, the full featured shareware version. I’m nearing feature completion, which is a good thing. Starting to put additional features on the post-1.0 queue. Not making as much progress as when I was doing The Life full-time, but still making steady daily progress. Kaizen. So in a week and a half, …

If you’re wanting to live The Life, I strongly recommend you go to WWDC. Yes I know, it is expensive. And your work probably won’t pay for it. And you’ll have to take a vacation week. But really, I think it is worth it. Why? 1. You get to learn all the cutting edge Apple …

Graham Miln asked “What does The Life mean to me?” I think Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit put it best in an interview with Jeff Harrell of The Shape of Days blog. Unfortunately, the link has been obscured by an interview with Andy Hertzfeld and is also on hiatus. I found the quote …

A lesson learned this past week: I need to pace myself better. One night I stayed up until 5AM and only got about 4 hours of sleep. The end result was that the next night I had to sleep much earlier. So I ended up losing at least 2 hours of working time. So I’ll …

Big thanks go out to one of my favorite writers on all things Mac-related and inventor of the term “The Life”, John Gruber. He put me on Daring Fireball’s Linked List, resulting in a big avalanche of folks coming to see this blog and WebnoteHappy Lite. If you’re one of those folks, thanks for coming …

Sometimes I tell people about my dreams of living The Life and they ask, “Isn’t that risky?” “Don’t 99.9999% of businesses fail within the first 10 years?” “Shouldn’t you be thinking about your children’s future?” Basically they’d probably rather have me working at one of the local government contracting firms that have 3 or 4 …

Day 8 was a wash, since my dentist appointment really knocked me out cold. I was actually in the dentist chair for over 2 hours! Then asleep in my bed for another 12 due to the pain medicine. Very uncharacteristic of me, but quite refreshing. Day 9 has turned out to be much better. I’ve …