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The Giving Generation

Our modern world is trying at times, but I find reason for hope everyday. As I move away from the startup scene into one focused more on charity, I am constantly amazed by the amount of good energy put out by my neighbors everyday. Whether it is working together to help better raise our children,…

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What is a Church?

I threw the word ‘Church’ around a bit in my last post. I feel the definition I am using may be non-standard to say the least. In the traditional sense, a church is building with a congregation and faith. Church the word is loaded with connotations positive and negative. Church for many people is a…

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The Body Economic

Over the last two years, society has been obsessed with the body politic. Elections, voting, fairness, equality. The body politic in the modern, democratic era is built around two main principles: that one person has one vote, and that people can find compromise to solve their problems. But this system has broken down. People do not vote, and…

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Changes, Programming, Project Jorge and More!

Changes are coming. For the last year and a half, I have been working as a full stack web developer and building my skills. But something has been missing, the helping people something, the something that I had in spades when I was a lawyer. I have ideas on what that is, but nothing concrete…

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Legal Tips for Businesses New and Old

Welcome to the new year. I hope you are excited about starting and/or growing your business. I have several new projects on the front burners, and I am quite eager to get going. Until I am ready to post those, check out the legal tips below to help you get going in this new year.

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How Law is Like Software

I have recently been relearning a lot of programming. My focus has mostly been on Javascript because it gets results for what I am building (I am working with AngularJS, NodeJS and LoopBackIO if you are interested). In revisiting programming best practices, I have come to realize that there are many, many parallels between writing…

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10 Reasons My Comic Book Store Failed

It seems a lifetime ago, but once, many years ago, a friend and I owned a comic & games store in Lake Jackson, Texas, called Angry Gorilla Comics & Games, Inc. We opened four months after I graduated college and stayed that way for another 18, until the stress of running a business that was just…