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Quick, what's Michael reading these days?

By: Michael Cannon

I read a lot.

Not just every week, but every day.

Every day, I browse through and read 100 to 150 articles from over 40 resources.

During my daily reading, I occasionally find a story that catches a particular interest of mine. Recently, I found out that my business partners are interested in them and I figure you might be as well.

To see the latest articles of my interests in business, software, productivity, home ownership, finance, health, and more please check out Michael's Shared Items.

There's about 30 articles currently in my Michael's Shared Items list.

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Whew... it's a busy day, week, month, summer...

By: Michael Cannon

It's 8:34 PM and I'm finally wrapping it up for the evening after a long day of work. I barely took a long enough break to grill burgers for dinner with the family.

Though I try to write a "real" blog entry twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, some days I'm not able to. Like today.

Here's why, Cannonbose is wrapping up 2 projects, gearing up to start another project involving 30 websites and 5 languages, resolving several support requests, scheduling further adhoc support requests in August, planning for the new company, and preparing for two days of on-site training with two...

Change is Inevitable

By: Michael Cannon

Cannonbose is about to change a little and a lot.

Focus, the Hard Part

By: Michael Cannon

Running your own business is work.

Sometimes, getting started might have been a fluke. However, after a while, you want more out of your business. In wanting more comes a need to grow and be even more focused, organized, and successful.

Now this is where the real work comes.

The first few years of Cannonbose was freelance based with short and medium length project terms. In recent years, Cannonbose has ran as a real company with people having assigned responsibilities, schedules to be met consistently, new technologies and techniques to be learned, greater overhead, much larger projects,...