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Bags #26-50 have arrived!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Earlier this week I had a chance for a 3-min milestone<\/a>. \u00a0A new shipment of bags arrived! \u00a0Our maker is finishing them off 25 at a time. \u00a0It\u2019s truly a magical moment that I get to celebrate when these kinds of things arrive at my house. \u00a0Artifacts, symbols, and signals \u00a0\u00a0of \u00a0\u00a0progress<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0I am extremely excited!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

More bags are arriving, the altMBA has wrapped up, the Badass Backpacks team has our 2016 planning session behind us — I feel that I owe you a ton of updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

2016 BFD (Backpacks For Dinner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I wrote quite a bit last year about our Tuesday night approach<\/a>. \u00a0I also gave a lot of hints that our pace in 2016 would be evolving. \u00a0While we are changing up our team approach, I just can\u2019t seem to let go of Tuesday nights on my calendar. \u00a0So going forward, Tuesdays will still be a big part of my weekly work on Badass Backpacks. \u00a0I\u2019ll keep the\u00a0Tuesday night momentum going. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0But it will likely look a little bit different. \u00a0We\u2019ll also leverage some ad-hoc BFD sessions this year to create more connections and expand our Tribe: \u00a0sharing more with you, and learning more from you as we go. \u00a0BFD is a conversation based process. \u00a0It\u2019s a willingness to stick with conversations that do not die. <\/span><\/p>\n

2016 Website: \u00a0What\u2019s up with our website?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s up with your website Adam?\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0This is the most common question that I am getting from our followers — if you\u2019re reading this, then I\u2019m talking about you.<\/span><\/p>\n

My altMBA followers witnessed me thrashing a bit with some website woes during my time in the altMBA. \u00a0Rusty, Eric, and I had put in a lot of important work to edge-craft the website in 2015, but no amount of time spent worrying about it seems to have been enough to force the issue on getting our website published and ready to go. \u00a0So this is the top priority goal that I\u2019ve shifted my focus to right now. \u00a0I\u2019ve got an aggressive new goal to get our basic website launched by March 21. \u00a0This will be a phased approach. \u00a0And the initial website isn\u2019t going to have everything that we\u2019ve been dreaming to include. \u00a0This is how these things go. \u00a0But the great news here is that we are finally making REAL headway. \u00a0I had a meeting with Rusty tonight, and we are now on a path to get this baby-steps, pre-nascent, beta, first draft version of the site ready for action. \u00a0Here\u2019s a quick peek at where our homepage development is now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Badass Backpacks\u2019 Planning Session 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On Feb 15, I had a chance to meet with Rusty and Eric. \u00a0We kept the conversation burning late into the night and we leaned on some altMBA thinking as we considered new goals, and new angles on the stories we are telling ourselves: \u00a0and how those stories are helping us (or not helping us) move forward. \u00a0While the below is by no means comprehensive — I wanted to at least share a few quick insights that stick out in my notes from our Feb 15 planning session. \u00a0Thank you Rusty and Eric! \u00a02016 is well underway — and so is Badass Backpacks:<\/span><\/p>\n