Personal Thoughts

I recently realized that I do my best thinking when I’m on a walk and have some type of background noise playing on my headphones. I feel like I can actually focus and work through my brain without feeling the urge to check my phone or laptop or anything else.

I’ve been told that I used to be a very curious person. Somewhere along the line I lost it, and now I’m trying to get it back. I’ve effectively created a system where I can choose what stays with me in the long-term. Having a reliable method to actually keep track of everything, rather than forgetting everything after a week, makes me so much more excited to discover and analyze new things. For one of the few times in my life, it makes learning, and following my curiosity, actually fun.

It's time to come back to why now was the time for me to start working towards a side-project. Sure, months of remote work from home, and a global pandemic has left a huge void of time that can now be focused on something else. But, for every motivation, there's a spark that ignites it. For me, that was discovering the no-code/visual programming tools, Bubble and Webflow.

To start off, I love Social Media. It's easily one of the most powerful tools of our generation, and it creates so much opportunity to connect with people. Like many others, I use these services for multiple purposes. Some for friends and family, some for work connections, and others for following the "who's who" in my industry. It's easy to become captivated by the wealth of potential connections at your fingertips. But if we're not careful, it can be just as easy to follow the pack. In this post, I want to focus on my experience in following

A combination of staying inside forever, calls to build, and stories about discoveries under quarantine (like... gravity) naturally leads conversation about "what's coming next?" Now, I am not the person to try to answer this, but I have a weird angle to try.I just finished a show on Netflix called Halt and Catch Fire, which is a historical drama about a group of characters making their way through PC companies in the 80s and internet companies in the early 90s (10/10 recommend watching it). Throughout the show

Turns out that being locked inside during a global pandemic leads to some introspective thinking. I put together a quick hit on my new approach to self-improvement learning. It's easy for me to get excited about a new idea. It's especially easy if it involves diving into a nascent or emerging space. Once I the spark of an idea, I naturally start to imagine the future steps in my head: "Once I figure out this, I can do that, then I'll add on this, ..., and then boom I have a cool new amazing thing to show-off." It sounds like the building blocks

I’m re-branding my writing under my personal account name, MSilb7, with a focus on the areas where my professional life has taken me, and where I hope to go: business, consumer, startups, and tech (maybe with a sports skew).