It doesn’t matter how “passive” you can do a business over time by hiring employees or a manager, you will need to be there eventually for it to grow, and if you don’t like what you are doing, you will not do your best.

It’s good to climb the corporate ladder when you’re young, but it won’t make you happy.

Starting a side hustle can seem like a difficult task, especially when you have little to no experience. However, if you’re willing to put in the work and dedicate yourself to your new endeavor, chances are high that it’ll be ⋯

Companies are tired of paying for a lack of results. Employees are tired of being underpaid when they outperform. The solution is likely for us become one-person businesses.

Customer success begins before the customer ever sees the product or any of its features. And the path to that success starts with release management.

What a lot of people thought of as the conventional strategy for startup success are unraveling at a quickening pace.

Building a business is hard work. These are the tougher lessons about entrepreneurship that most people are not aware of when they start.

High-Income Skills I’m Currently Learning to Make More Money Online. Uncommon skills you’re probably unaware of unless you’re Gary Vee’s mother.

Like working for a boss, trading time for money, hating on strangers, and being jealous. Society has gotten weak. I don’t mean that in a navy seal, drop and give me twenty kind of way. I mean it in terms of how we think. The ⋯

With age comes years of observation. What is the most important lesson to be gained?

What it takes to make a huge amount of money OR to create something important... Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success.

The more you can visualize a real historical figure using these anger-management strategies, and other aspects of Stoicism, the easier it becomes to do so in your own life.

How much of Earth used to be covered by forests, and what portion is covered today?

Feeling unmotivated at work? You’re not alone. Here are 6 ways to put the power back in willpower and find that motivation.

What makes video games "better than real life?" Games remove all the risk ever-present in the real world. If you screw something up or die, then you simply respawn. Obviously, not something you can do in real life.

It’s difficult to stay kind and understanding in the face of idiocy and aggression.

Richie BartlettNew year… Fresh cherries!How many can you pop? 😎🍒🍆

Frederick Douglass (aka Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) (circa 19 century)It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

What a stunning photo!

We had a simple “second” Japanese wedding for Akiko. Personally, I didn’t see much value in it, but she demanded it.

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She’s my furry godmother: Stray cat ‘saves’ Russian baby abandoned in freezing hallway by keeping him warm An abandoned newborn baby was saved from freezing to death by the unlikeliest of hero - a stray cat. The tabby named ⋯

The presents are opened, the food is eaten… happy day after Christmas!

Richie BartlettLooks like my dream home.

After officially stamping the documents at the city hall in Japan for our marriage license, we decided to fly to Dallas, Texas. This would be the first time my Mother would personally meet my Japanese wife. While we took a ⋯

Richie BartlettPeople that take lead of action do amazing things when they stopped talking and complaining. Spotfix BengaluruOctober 25, 201475 employees from Gokaldas Images came out today and fixed the footpath right ⋯

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Spoon & TamagoOctober 24, 2014For those of you celebrating Halloween in Japan, a friendly reminder from the Tokyo metro: “Don’t do halloween on our trains in Japan…”

Richie Bartlett面白いぃ！ Husband Finds His Wife’s Shoebox Full Of Money, He Confronts Her And This Happens… A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They ⋯

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Children are bundles of joy, but they can also be elemental forces of destruction. One mother, however, turned lemons into lemonade by turning her child’s otherwise destructive wall doodle into a flowery work of collaborative ⋯

Richie BartlettKnowledge is having the right answer.Intelligence is asking the right question.Wisdom is knowing when and where you should not answer and/or ask these questions.

Richie BartlettKnow a “script kiddie” that wishes to be “forgotten?” Indexeus, a new search engine that indexes user account information acquired from more than 100 recent data breaches, has caught many in the hacker ⋯

Feels good to return to Work.

Feel like tenderized meat… Right shoulder and chest has changed to several shades of red, purple, blue, and green. Good to know that I can survive a high-speed flight off a cliff side of the ski slopes next to the trees… Had a ⋯

Let it snow… Let it snow-— J-ListFebruary 5, 2014While it wasn’t quite as awesome as this, we managed to get a little snow in Tokyo/Gunma today. (I’m from San Diego, so I actually like the stuff.)(source: ⋯

Just sparked an idea… What if we could take a snapshot of our DNA when we are born, when we turn 18 and 30. Then later in life, we can use those snapshots via gene-therapy to cure whatever was ailing us? Would this be like the ⋯

Fucking chain-smoker decided to sit his old decrepit ass next to me on the train… Now I feel like a smoking room door just opened. You can see the specks of cigarette on his clothes and face. The air around me is suddenly ⋯

Mmmm mmh! Tasty! 😉 I wrote about KFC on Friday, so I guess I should re-post this image again.(source: http://moe.vg/12QhXQQ) Wonder what Taco Bell or Wendy’s girls look like… Extra WendyWendy’s: Hello. Welcome to ⋯

Is marriage just for any “one?” Marriage Isn’t For You Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me. Now before you start making assumptions, keep reading. I ⋯

A picture worth…

What are the first 5 things or concepts you would teach your kids early? Personally, here is my list in no special order: Fear Knowledge is king Take pride in great failures, it challenges you to become more ⋯

Had a fight with gravity and lost… Walked home with a bloody forehead and lip… Should have blocked better!

Started with me visiting my Mom and brother in Texas (at least I think it was Texas… had the sense that it was “home…”) There was an earthquake and I was apparently injured as I had a gash cut across the right-side of my ⋯

Unbelievable! And, a bit absurd use for Excel when there are far superior applications on the market. Microsoft Excel isn’t only for spreadsheets. It can also be used to create art. Don’t believe me? Just ask 73 year-old ⋯

​Sometimes amazing ideas simply happen at the wrong time. That doesn’t change the value. Ray Cronise

Winter is in full swing! I love the snow. Best to have the gear to enjoy it.

To those of you that subscribed to the Mayan calendar… Happy New Cycle (year)!!! ;) World still here… LOL. Now let’s prepare for the X-MAS holidays!

In response to: http://bjk5.com/post/38101106878/i-dont-understand Source: Ben Kamens Don’t be afraid to admit that you don’t grasp something or it doesn’t make sense…

I’ve been thinking about what kind of kanji to use for my last name. It doesn’t have a well defined meaning in English. So, I’ve been considering just forming the kanji based on the phonetic sound. ba-toretto -> 塲冨玲登 ? I ⋯

Bloody Fuckin’ morons!!! Twice, on my way home while riding my bike, some brain-dead monkey behind the wheel of a car almost runs my ass over! I don’t know what amusement park they got their license from, but one must keep ⋯

It’s Murphy’s Law if you don’t get the joke in Japanese If you miss the punch line to a Japanese joke, don’t feel bad. It’s simply unrealistic to use something as elusive as humor to measure your ability to understand a foreign ⋯

I awoke this morning only to remember some very vivid fragments of some frightening dreams. I dreamed that I was in a big earthquake. I found myself in bed when the shaker struck my home. I had the sense that I was on the 2nd ⋯

One of the many things I like about Japan are the public “wheelchair” restrooms (aka multifunction rooms). These restrooms cater to Moms that need to change their kids’ diapers and for wheelchair bound individuals to take care ⋯

The siren went off and my phone was going crazy. Then the ground shook like a ship in rocky seas. Apparently another strong 6.4+ earthquake hit nearby Iwaki and Fukushima. In my dullness of thought, I failed to roll off my bed. ⋯

The below sites are a good source to monitor for the situation in Japan and around ⋯

The below sites are a good source to monitor for the situation in Japan and around ⋯

It’s been 24 days since mother-nature re​leased the M9.0 quake that was shortly followed by the 14m high (37.9m in some places) tsunami upon Japan. After the first week, things were limited and uncertain. The flow of ⋯

​Hindsight is said to be 20/20… It would be hoped that in hindsight we would learn to avoid past mistakes. In reading the JapanTimes, I find myself irritated with how the information is revealed. Now that things appear to be ⋯

As we approach the third week of nature’s disaster upon Japan, we find the aftermath of these connected events plaguing us. From the M9.0 quake to the resulting tsunami and the weakened nuclear reactors in Fukushima, it goes ⋯

Looking at the USGS site that covers Japan, I can see all the earthquakes are focused along the deep oceanic trench where the Eurasia plate and the Pacific plate meet. In the last 10 days alone, we have experienced over 300 ⋯

These last several days are only the beginning of what I’m certain will be a very trying and difficult time for Japan. Not just economically, but in all facilities such as food, medical assistance, and resource distribution. ⋯

The damage to the power plants in Fukushima are having wide and deep unexpected impacts. Services to many trains are suspended indefinitely. A few trains are running at 30% capacity. My train routes are completely down. Many ⋯

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Poetic rap about alcoholic dreams. A poem that captures the feeling of being lost in a haze of alcohol and dreaming of other worlds.

Micro-poem about hope to find a life in a new land.

Micro-poem about hope to build a family of my own.

Poem dedicated to my cat JJ who I treated like a son until he died in 2004.

Memory of my cat JJ.

Comical poem about dying and finding Heaven and Hell are the same place. A playful take on a weighty topic.

A beautiful poem that contemplates the origins of our universe and time. It juxtaposes the flower's transience with time's foreverness to add depth and poignancy to the overall message. I was contemplating some of life's ⋯