Recently, Seth Godin published a book called The Dip which is about concentrating only on the things you can be the best at, and pushing through the obstacles to make it happen.
If you’ve been following my posts on creating expertise, it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Noticeable ability, […]

Here are a couple more designs from OCS. The officer candidates wear these shirts for their field meet. In addition to trying to win the events and the meet, the platoons all try to out-motivate, and out-gunge each other. That sentiment is evident even in the shirts.

The Marine Corps not only maintains its standard of excellence from one generation to the next, it magnifies it. The Marine Corps improves, because continuous improvement is a cornerstone of its ethos, and because Marines do not believe that perfection can be achieved. There is always room for improvement.
Every Marine has opinions on […]

Occasionally we get calls from the other three services asking if we’ll do artwork for their units. Because we are Marines here at the office, people from the other services seem surprised when we agree to do their unit designs. I’m all for the inter-service rivalry, but it’s all just surface fun, and […]

Here’s a sketch I’m working on for a 5K in Florida. There are going to be some edits to this, but I think it’s a good start.

I did the following analysis for an organizational psychology class a few years back. I have not written much about the character discipline in the blog yet because much of what I believe is contained in the following articles. I am updating and republishing the paper here as a frame of reference for […]

Last week my younger brother, Cam, sent me an article posted on MSNBC titled, To get a post-military job, drop the jargon, GI, written by Eve Tahmincioglu. The article gives military personnel advice in transitioning to the civilian world. Aside from the article’s condescending and stereotypical attitude (which Cam responded to in his blog) […]