Matt Homann

Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.

Yep. 3o seems to be the model that figures out the hard problems the others don’t.

Is this the before or the after?

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Going to start sending this to whoever is talking too much in the meeting

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in the same week is a lot of lost genius. Reminds me of when we lost Bowie and Prince just a few months apart and it felt like the world spun off its axis.

Q. Have you seen any good movies lately? A. Well, I've only seen one in the last couple of years. It's called Norbit by Eddie Murphy. Q. How did you like it? A. Fantastic movie. Very funny. Q. What's your favorite movie? A. Norbit.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

This is a terrific thread, with keen insight into some of the downsides of remote work, plus ways to mitigate or work around them.

Love it. This is the kind of honest talk about tradeoffs that can help move the industry forward, thank you.

A herring is a fish.

When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells.

It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail.

Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

Golf has entered the chat.

Andre The Giant (May 19, 1946 - January 28, 1993). Pictured here in The Princess Bride with Mandy Patinkin and Wallace Shawn, 1987.

#booksky

Friday night June 30th, 1978: what would you watch?

Fool me once, that's normal. Im pretty stupid.

Fool me twice, also very common.

Fool me three times, you guessed it.

It's easier to sell something old to new customers than to create something new for old customers.

Pretty sure he has someone down the hall who’s responsible for designing shower toiletries that all look alike with print too small to read without your glasses…

In memory of Val Kilmer: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

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Gratitude to @matthomann.com for leading off his latest "Idea Surplus Disorder" newsletter with a link to my newest Substack article, "Your law firm needs a Situation Room": www.ideasurplusdisorder.com/98/

If your question is met with silence that doesn’t mean it’s a bad question. It often means people are thinking before responding; pondering before declaring. That makes it a good question.

If found I’m becoming allergic to the tomato. ;-)

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At what moment did Wilfred Brimley begin coaching the Chiefs?

Kinda late this year, don’t you think? ;-)

Any website that tells me it uses cookies to "improve my experience" should have to prove it.

Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it

Lawyer-Lite Law: How to Deliver Transformative Results To Marginalized People With Today’s Tools.

The Cubs winning the World Series shifted us into the wrong timeline and I will believe this until the day I die.

Same. The amount I’ve spent on my Sonos system is only surpassed by the time I’ve spent trying to get it to work as promised.

Get quick with the block and the mute settings and it can be amazing!