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Rest to get ahead

By James Newcomb | January 24, 2024 | Comments Off on Rest to get ahead

I just read an interesting email from an online marketer I subscribe to. He was talking about the illusion of constantly working on one’s business, or job, or what have you. One of the people this person mentioned who preaches the need to work constantly is Gary Vaynerchuk. If you’re not familiar with “GaryVee” he’s…

A need

By James Newcomb | January 23, 2024 | Comments Off on A need

Good morning my friends. I can’t recall ever using this email list to straight ask up for money. I always try to make things interesting, entertaining, and then tie it into a service or product I’m promoting. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do just about everything, and I believe the approach…

Root for Team JNS!

By James Newcomb | January 18, 2024 | Comments Off on Root for Team JNS!

Have you ever watched a postgame interview where an NFL team got completely hosed by a late penalty, or non-penalty, that cost them the game? There’s always human error of course, but sometimes these penalties are so egregious, you can’t help but wonder if they’re intentionally helping out a certain team to win the game.…

Fresh out of remorse at this bakery

By James Newcomb | January 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Fresh out of remorse at this bakery

When Sana and I lived in Vietnam, we lived in a community called “EcoPark.” Beautiful place, and we both loved it. The apartment building we lived in was one of four massive towers called Westbay, and as there’s probably around 1000 residents of each 30 story building, you can imagine the elevators are a pretty…

Success v. Failure

By James Newcomb | January 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Success v. Failure

What if all this time what we thought of as “success” is really a massive failure? What if each failure contributed to overall success? Success and failure can be a bit deceiving when viewed on the surface. Kind of like the tip of the iceberg looks friendly enough – maybe even a bit beautiful when…