More than a living

Just a brief note to mention that More than a living has officially passed the one-year mark.
In that time, we’ve composed more than 265 posts. And those posts have generated more than 30,000 spam comments. (I can’t get a count on the real comments, but spam? No problem.)
Here’s the first post, entitled “I still have […]

To continue to riff on the “Common sense isn’t so common” theme…
I know you’re a smart cookie. So I know, for certain, that you’re often blindsided by moments of clarity. Insanely insightful leaps of intuition that just kind of pop into your head.
“It all seems so obvious,” you say to yourself. And after people quit […]

If you work in the corporate world, you’re likely starting to feel a little prickly sensation on the back of your neck. And that’s because, after reading that headline up there, you’re beginning to think about the ominous–not to mention foreboding–”annual performance review.”
As an employee, you’re now beginning to scramble. Trying to remind your managers […]

I was thinking about Kumquat, again. Constantly.
This time, I was trying to figure out why the idea behind Kumquat appealed to me, so that I could explain to other people why its an important shift in thinking.
Somehow, “I think it’s a good idea” just doesn’t carry that sort of cache I’m seeking.
And then it dawned […]

Ahem.
It’s been awfully quiet around here, as of late. And for that, I apologize.
Everyone is busy. Busy busy busy.
But I’m rarely, if ever, too busy to chat with you, gentle reader. So why don’t we get to it?
When I posted that we needed CSS help for Kumquat, I expected to get a few portfolios in […]

Tired of hearing us complain about Kumquat? So are we!
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Quit being part of the problem.
Here’s the gig description from 37signals, craigslist, and hypocritical.
We were going to try to make this gig post cute and pithy. But the fact of the matter is we’re […]

The engaging conversation occurring around “Knowing when to quit” already had me feeling better about the latest Kumquat decisions.
And then I read this from Joel on Software:
Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better.
There are thousands and tens of thousands of these tiny things.
It takes a […]

As many of you have surmised, one of the tangential as-the-world-turns subplots of More than a living is following the development of a tool we’re building called Kumquat. As such, we’ve tried to be as open and honest about not only its development, but the mistakes we’ve made along the way.
A few months back, we […]

Part of being happy at work is finding ways to sustain your personal growth. One way to ensure you’re sustaining your personal growth is finding a mentor.
Ideally, that mentor has some sort of relationship with you. However, when push-comes-to-shove, perceived mentors or role models work equally well.
Guy Kawasaki tends to fall in this role model […]

Sigh. Since you asked. Yeah, that’s the long and the short of it.
Kumquat is on the way. Seriously. No, I mean it.
Good thing this is a personal project and not for a real client.
As if I don’t feel bad enough, Basecamp continues to rub it in. Guilting me me, day after day after day.
Hang on, […]