April 3, 2026 | Read Online “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler Let’s be Friends! Last year, my publisher asked me a curious question. “Jay, do you know how long it takes to make a good friend?” “No idea. But I have a feeling you’re about to tell me.” As I sat in suspense, I had no idea this conversation would send me to the other side of the world. Todd shared highlights from Jeffrey A. Hall’s...
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March 27, 2026 | Read Online “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell You’re Not as Stupid as You Think In 1995, McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed two banks at gunpoint in Pittsburgh. Neither wore a mask. Neither avoided the security cameras. Johnson was arrested the same week. Wheeler, a few months later. Both were identified from surveillance footage. When Wheeler was...
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March 20, 2026 | Read Online “You’re only as good as you’re willing to be bad…The fact that you’re not going to be good at something or that you’re going to fail at something—that’s OK. Because you’re never going to get good unless you’re willing to be bad.” — Randall Stutman Great is the Enemy of Good Jim Collins famously wrote, “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.” While absolutely true in the pursuit of excellence, this...
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March 13, 2026 | Read Online “Some decisions are consequential and irreversible — one-way doors — and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation.” – Jeff Bezos The Delegation Matrix In my coaching, I see the same pattern over and over. A business owner builds a team, hires good people, and then can't figure out when to step in and when to step back. The result? They either hover over everything or hand off things they shouldn't. Two...
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March 6, 2026 | Read Online “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” ― Winston S. Churchill The Red Right Hand of Resolve Wendy and I have been binging Peaky Blinders before the movie comes out this month. The show always opens to the tune of Nick Cave’s ominous classic “Red Right Hand.” I can’t imagine a more perfect walk-on song for Thomas Shelby.Turns out, there's more to the hand than meets the eye. While Nick Cave was inspired by a line from Paradise...
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February 27, 2026 | Read Online “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.” – Douglas Hofstadter Two Laws Every Leader Should Know About Time Read that quote again. It's a riddle wrapped in a truth bomb. Computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter named this recursive little gem after himself, and it's been annoying project managers ever since. Here's the idea. You think a task will take two hours. Then you remember you always underestimate, so you...
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February 20, 2026 | Read Online “The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” – Muhammad Ali Marco Polo A surprising favorite from my 2025 reading stack was Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green. But this isn’t about tuberculosis. It’s about striving and waiting. Late in the book, Green shares his experience writing the novel The Fault in Our Stars. He wrote: When you write a novel,...
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Hey friends, I'm heading to Atlanta next week for Keller Williams Family Reunion. If you plan on attending, I'd love to see you! Check out our onsite meet-up here!February 13, 2026 | Read Online “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov The Solomon Paradox University of Waterloo psychological scientist Igor Grossmann studies wisdom. He explores the times when we make good and bad decisions. If knowledge is the...
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February 6, 2026 | Read Online “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” - Peter Drucker 6,000 Wiener Dogs Can't Be Wrong “I feel like I’m on a rocket ship and I’m having trouble steering it.” This was my friend Alex Hopes’ reply when I asked him how his business was doing.Alex is the founder of ZilkerBark. I met him in Zilker Park where he would roam and take photos of random puppies. He captured my dog, Taco,...
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