About

Welcome to the new ShiftMode!

It's been over a decade since anything was posted here. My last post was early 2013. At the time I had been writing and posting there for about a decade with over 300 posts.

For now, I'm leaving those old posts up and available. My current thinking is that I will, over time, repost often referenced posts from the archive here. Maybe, once I feel that I've reposted all the durable posts here I'll remove access to the archive?

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Who The What?

If you're not aware of who I am, you can checkout my vanity site to learn more about me. While this site is exclusively for my longer, more prepared posts, my vanity site is my catch-all for everything else. That includes recipes like phenomenal bars and my digital bookshelf.

New shiftMode Plan?

It's simple:

1. Write and publish new posts here.
2. Repost old posts here to consolidate all the various stray locations I've written at over the years.

Previous Writings

In the meantime, you can find the entire archive at old.shiftmode. If you need a few recommended posts:

• Can we accelerate the entrepreneurial ecosystem by shortening the time between starts
• The Rise of the Entrepreneur which is a love letter to entrepreneurs and a call to keep gatekeepers at bay.
• In Respect The Game, Love The Grind! I compare building a business to winning at sports. This was cross posted at Startup North.
• When asked, I now tell people Do Not Start a Business!.
• Back in 2006, in Back to the Farm I wrote about how I feel we'll eventually view commuting to work as a failed experiment.