Tracksuit CEO

I was thinking about the book How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci last night as I watched my 3 month old daughter sleep. In the book Michael Gelb shows you how to experience and observe things more richly. Gelb writes that Leonardo encouraged his pupils to look so closely at things that were familiar [...]

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I was at a picnic here on the east side of Austin yesterday and something struck me. I was surrounded by other young parents, all creative and entrepreneurial types who have all rejected the traditional ideas about becoming a parent. I saw not one t-shirt tucked into khaki shorts the whole time I was there. [...]

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Do you ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day? I sure do, especially when it comes to playing Groovy Girls with my daughter. See, Groovy Girls are the TrackSuit family’s answer to Barbie Dolls (we don’t do Barbie, at least not yet). My daughter likes to play with these little dolls [...]

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When I worked at the computer company whose name we must never mention I tried endlessly to get other jobs using mainly my trusty resume. Talk about disheartening! I got almost nowhere and wasted way too much time and Crane’s watermark paper. And when I would get a job interview, I was so desperate for [...]

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Recently I wrote The Ten Commandments of Working From Home where I proved my street credit based on 2 criteria: I used gangsta rap lyrics to convey my thoughts on working from home. I also live in East Austin (built in street cred) Now that I’ve established my authority on all subjects urban, I’m going [...]

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