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Imagine a world in which you could purchase a simple digital image, and the ownership of that image magically unlocked a world of known (and potentially unknown) experiences. In certain circles, including my friend group, there have been a multitude of heated discussions about NFTs. My wife just told me that NFTs are stupid, so… View Article

It was late 2014, and I had just quit a comfortable job to start a new position in an industry that I knew nothing about. My new gig required a three-hour, round-trip commute, so I had plenty of time to think about my long-term goals for the future. It was during these trips where I… View Article

For those of you who are not avid NASCAR junkies, you might think of Wilkes County, North Carolina, as the Moonshine Capital of America. However, after 1947 it would forever be known as the home to the North Wilkesboro Speedway. Like Wilkes County, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is known for a lot of things—son of a… View Article

For a decade, I had an Outlook calendar entitled: “Hug More.” It was after reading Hug Your Customers by Jack Mitchell that I created and maintained this calendar to keep track of the special occasions of friends, family, coworkers, and clients. I would overhear someone mentioning that their birthday was the past weekend or today was their… View Article

I spend a ridiculous amount of time in my truck driving from state to state as I make my way to my office in Georgia, a friend’s house in Mississippi, and my in-law’s place in Wisconsin. Regardless of the destination, most weeks you can find me headed down the interstate with a fresh cup of… View Article

I woke up this morning after having a strange dream about a genie with a magic lamp. This was not an ordinary genie; this was a work-obsessed genie that offered me three wishes, but they all had to be used to make myself and my team more productive at work. It’s common knowledge that a… View Article

The week between Christmas and New Year’s has always been an ideal time for me to sit and reflect on the past year’s accomplishments. I enjoy firming up a game plan to achieve the upcoming year’s goals. When I was going through this exercise at the end of 2019, I could not have predicted the… View Article

It was two weeks before the 2016 NASCAR Championship weekend and my task list was overflowing when my customer called and asked for another last-minute addition. There was a new sponsor that wanted to showcase their product inside our hospitality space and my customer wanted to know if I had any extra bandwidth as NASCAR… View Article

In the summer of 2018, my boss approached me and asked that I build a team that could manage the procurement, installation, and ongoing maintenance of a new Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) network that would be deployed across Minor League Baseball stadiums around the country. Coming fresh off another large project this was a… View Article

For much of my life, patience has not been a word that I would use to describe myself. Yet I understand how important it is to embrace patience. I clearly remember three major decisions that I have made in my career—quitting a job, starting a new one, and committing to a half-baked idea—that would have… View Article