Alright, Lovely Simplerista, the show is on!
Every Thursday at noon US Eastern time, I'm going to do The Calvin Show.
I'll hop on some kind of live stream and share brilliant insights, tell fun and entertaining stories, sing moving songs, play instruments, and take your questions. I want to talk to you about your journey as an entrepreneur, about food, about music, about love, about life, about mysteries, about cool discoveries, about anything that catches our fancy.
There's only one ground rule: No Simplero "how-to" talk. This is not the time and place for customer service or how to do this that or the other thing with Simplero. I'm happy to talk about the story behind Simplero, why and how it came about, where it's going, internal processes, and so on. Anything but the actual how-to. That's for another channel.
Join me LIVE Thursday at noon Eastern right here
And you can ask me a question in advance here
I'm gearing up to doing a full evening show at a local theater. It's going to be a combination of stories, jokes, songs (mine and other people's), and have a blast. I think I'll mix in the mixology part too and do it on Friday/Saturday nights and let it turn into a party. I'll have an incredible band performing with me. It'll be so much fun.
The weekly online The Calvin Show is going to be me warming up to that big show. It'll be totally real and rad.
When God Calls...
Back in the fall while eating at the bar at Acme, I "randomly" met Allan, who owns a theater right here on Bleecker street. We really hit it off and ended up talking for hours. Ever since it really landed in me to do this show, I've known that I wanted to do it at his theater and with him. I haven't seen him since, but then Sunday night, as Phoebe and I were walking home from dinner with friends, we walked right past the theater. I always look through the windows to see what's going on, and this night, Allan was sitting right there, talking to someone.
We were in the middle of a tense conversation, and I really wanted to go in there and say hi, and at the same time I really wanted not to. I was scared. What if he's in the middle of a conversation (he was, obviously). What if he doesn't want to talk to me? What if I'm interrupting? It was an old voice: "What do you want? The grownups are talking. We don't have time for your silly needs."
It took me a little bit, and I was pretty nervous, but I got Phoebe to go back with me, and we got in there and said hi. Allan asked what was going on in my life, and I told him about the show. He said "please keep us in mind". I very calmly said "thanks, I'll consider it". Actually, I don't remember what I said exactly. But we agreed to meet about it in a couple of weeks. Yay! So exciting!
I've noticed this pattern quite a few times now. Some opportunity comes up, and it's right then and there. I feel the urge to grab it, but I definitely also hear all the voices saying not to bother. It's not that important, there'll be other opportunities, it's not a good time, and so on. More and more I'm taking those opportunities, and I have yet to regret it.
Like Lady Gaga said: "When God calls, pick up the damn phone!"
So see you Thursday at noon!
New Features in Simplero
There's a new Tax Reporting feature under Invoices, so you can get the numbers to send to the EU VAT MOSS authorities, among other things.
And a bunch of minor fixes and tweaks.
Random Links from around the Interwebs
John Oliver has done it again: Created a comedy segment about a hugely important subject: Patent trolls. Seriously, go watch the segment now.
This Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson book is an incredible idea. Using computers to come up with surprising flavor combinations that apparently work. Amazing.
If you feel like all the great business ideas have already been taken—don't worry. You are not too late. It'll always be the early days.
Have another amazing week.
Lots of love,
-Calvin