SMALL JOURNEYS: WHAT SHOES WILL YOU WEAR?

June 13, 2023
15 years ago I bought a pair of shoes. Just last month I lost them. Why is this newsworthy? Give me a minute.  I bought them in a local Kansas shop, in a town where I used to live: lime green Asics with yellow stripes. At the time, I was just starting to gain traction in my business life, but far more importantly, my son was about to be born. I didn’t intend for these shoes to become so sentimental to me, but they soon did.  Born after 38 hours of labor, my wife at the time doing the hard work (obviously) and me just pacing back-and-forth, back-and-forth, basically wearing a hole in the floor of the birthing center with ...
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The Humility of Good Business

July 9, 2009 | 3

We are in the midst of an economic situation that has been the result of, and mired in the muck of ENTITLEMENT. Living in New York, the epicenter of commerce the effects of this pervading arrogance have been more than apparent. Yes, we all deserve to have our hopes and dreams come to fruition. We deserve to provide for our children what we couldn’t have imagined experiencing ourselves.

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Attention and Distraction

June 24, 2009 | 1

The idea of whether the Internet is making us more intelligent or less intelligent, more vulnerable to distraction or more capable of skillful multi-tasking, seems to have obsessed the majority of print and online media journalists lately

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Google, A Way Of Life

June 22, 2009 | 5

I have been a gmail fan since the day it launched almost five years ago. (Time to take down the beta badge Google!) Since then I have noticed that most of the internet savvy people in my life also reside on gmail ave. Maybe its the 7 gigs of free storage or the creepy ads that morph themselves into relevant blurbs of clickable text upon each refreshment.

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I'm Jay Kubassek

I’m Jay Kubassek, entrepreneur, investor, father and believer in bigger things. While I live the exact life I want, and with purpose...

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