Hi, I’m Marty.
This used to be my blog. I wrote here, on and off, for over 20 years, from the first version in 2001 to my last post in 2023. Mostly about life, goals, habits, health and fitness, gear I liked, and a yearly look back. The blog is retired now, but this little corner of the internet is still mine.
What I’m doing now
I build mailfloss, an email verification service for marketers. It connects to your email service provider and keeps your list clean automatically: it verifies addresses, fixes typos and removes bounces, so you don’t have to.
Before that
I built a couple of earlier products that have since been retired: Aboardly (simple email automation) and Audience Owl (data enrichment). What I learned from both went into mailfloss.
Say hello
The best way to reach me is through X, at @landland.
Everything I wrote here, 147 posts
The old posts are archived offline. Here are their titles, for posterity.
2023
- 2022 same but different
2022
- 2021 is over
2021
- 2020 year in review. What the fock was that?
2020
- Ready for what’s next
2019
- 2018 was another good year
2018
- I am going to India!
- Late mid-year update 2018: A familiar feeling
2017
- Mid Year Update 2017: Back on track, baby!
- BetterBack Review: Effortless Perfect Posture or Scam?
- The Y Athletics SilverAir Sock Review
- The BedJet v2 Review – Reviewing The BedJet v2
- The Snooz Review – Does it really help improve your sleep?
- Mr. Davis Underwear Review – World’s best underwear?
- Comfortable Club Bliss Collection: World’s Most Comfortable Underwear & Tee Review
- The Carbon 6 Belt Review
- Element Pure Nanofiber Baselayer Review – Ultra Soft, Odor-proof & Sustainable
- Wiivv custom insoles review
- Alex Wearable Posture Tracker Review
- 2017 was a good year
2016
- Mid Year Update OR Holy SH*T It’s Almost July
- 2016 – A little lonely and a little lost
2015
- P90X3 Review : Pretty darn awesome!
- Speed Kills: Why Moving Quickly is Important and How You Can, Too
- Need directions? Have an Internal Compass. A simple guide to help navigate through life.
- 2015 Review. Looking Forward to 2016!
2014
- Getting In the Ring
- Don’t believe your own bullshit
- Things I would like to (continue to) learn this year
- Rise from the ashes… anytime you wish
- A Month Late
- Where Ideas Come From. A Fun Weekend Project
- When you’re beat, you’re beat
- Stop the gossip
- Make Better Choices
- Avoiding Brain Drain.
- Mid year update
- 2014 Year End Review – Laying the Foundation
2013
- Starting Strength Review
- Speak Your Truth
- Criticism is easy…. Introspection is hard
- Focus on Process, Not Outcome
- The Law of Impermanence
- Consistently Consistent
- I guess I should let you know what I’ve been up to. Introducing Rentything, a peer to peer rental marketplace
- Backbone vs Ember vs Angular vs Knockout Review
- First bit of PR for Rentything this week
- Three things I learned about myself at MBA school
- Practice Your Craft
- Vulnerability is Strength
- 1 Year Later
- Memrise vs DuoLingo
- 2013 – Building Up Confidence
2012
- Happy 2012!
- When it hits you…
- Making Decisions
- The Day I was Forked
- P90X2 Workout Review
- Can you feel the heat? Persist and Ignore.
- Impactful Goodbyes and Hellos. How you touch and are touched
- The Burden of Too Much Stuff
- The End of the Beginning
2011
- 2010 Annual Review.
- Small Decisions, Small Victories
- Psssttttttt…is this thing on??
- The Lost Art of Solitude
- Rip 60 Review
- Rushfit Workout Review
- Insanity Asylum Review
2010
- P90X Plus Workout Review
- Conventional Wisdom is Many Times Very Wrong
- Willpower Alone is Not Enough
- RMAX Bodyweight Exercise Revolution Review
- Respect Awesomeness, Not Your Elders
- You Don’t Need More Tips
- Learning is a Lifelong Journey
- Making Things Intolerably Inconvenient
- Rev Abs Review
- The Agony of Defeat and The Sweet Taste of Victory
- I Miss My Blog.
- What Happens if You Started Today?
2009
- Fall Hard in order to Fly…
- Why you need to take action.
- We are the sum of our habits.
- focus your energy
- Courage under fire
- Man on Wire… lessons on balance
- What motivates you? Finding leverage.
- Patience is a virtue, indeed.
- we are all cut from the same cloth
- acknowledging the obstacles in front of your mind
- Know your outcome. Rocky style!
- love thyself. it will do you good.
- finding time by organizing your priorities
- Trimming the fat… simplifying to the essentials and removing the weights.
- Lifestyle experiments: A great way to challenge yourself
- be a (wo)man. do the right thing. have integrity.
- The only thing I’m pretty sure I know is that I don’t know anything
- Persistence paves the way.
- Changing it up around here.
- Twitter for n00bs
- when death comes knocking.
- when things don’t go the way as planned.
- Be Your Own Guru
- I’m having an affair…
- Protecting your privacy online.
- cleaning off my plate.
- Real simple syndication not so simple… Or is it?
- Getting feedback is important
- memememmememe and only me
- Hello! Still here…
- time waits for nobody
- San Francisco is rules
- Clubfoot of Death
- Weddingpalooza
- We’ll see…
- CN Tower Climb for United Way… my thoughts
- Insanity Workout Review
- A belief is a belief is a belief…
- Do you trust yourself? Ignore Everybody
- The year of the FAIL. A look back. And forward.
2008
- guess who’s back? fresh goodness.
- Kiss me. Lesson 3.
- Acceptance. Lesson 4.
- “Just for today, do not worry.” – Dr. Mikao Usui
- “Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe go F*@# yourself!” – The Departed
- “When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears” – Tony Robbins
- Forgiveness is a beautiful thing.
- The power of authenticity
- Today’s lesson. Listen to Oprah
- Poise from Pops
- the curse of instant gratification.
- give it up.
- the spark of passion
- Will Smith – Running & Reading (The Key to Life)
- the purpose of this post is purpose.
- 100% responsibility
- Being Open
- Unconditional Love
- The Abundance Mentality… and how it can serve you
- detach yourself from attachments
- Funny – Inspirational quotes cut from 40 movies.
- “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.” – Wayne Dyer
- every moment is precious
- A Fight Club Moment…
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Holiday Stress.
- Aim High