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December 18, 2020
  • Thoughts

Stop causing unforced errors

Written by Sol Orwell

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I played a lot of table tennis (not a lot of options). And I had one friend who always whooped us. And I mean it when I say whooped — for over half a decade, I can...

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February 24, 2020
  • Thoughts

SJO.com is on Hiatus

Written by Sol Orwell

Life is all about prioritization. It’s hard to focus effectively on more than a few major tasks. I got re-involved in Examine.com around the end of 2018. By early 2019 I was fully in the swing of things. It was...

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June 24, 2019
  • #cookielife
  • Networking
  • Philanthropy
  • Social Media

How we leveled up the Cookie Off and ended up raising over $200,000…

Written by Sol Orwell

The last ever Cookie Off is done (check out the pics). The #cookielife is now finished. When I first started planning the Cookie Off, I was in a bit of a bind – we had almost 40 competitors last year...

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March 18, 2019
  • Productivity
  • Thoughts

A business has one job: to solve a problem

Written by Sol Orwell

No matter what you do, no matter how you slice it, a business has one goal: to solve a problem. Everything else is extraneous. You have a job to do I’m a huge proponent of Jobs to be Done (JTBD),...

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February 14, 2019
  • Networking
  • Reputation Management

Friendships can corrupt

Written by Sol Orwell

  In All the Stars, Kendrick Lamar raps: Motherfucker, I don’t even like you Corrupt a man’s heart with a gift That’s how you find out who you dealin’ with Kendrick has a great point – giving someone a gift...

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Sol Orwell

Hi I'm Sol.

I pontificate here at SJO.com on entrepreneurship, productivity, and more.

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