Burning Bridges We’ve all been there before. Somebody does or says something that really pisses you off. Maybe they let you down, threw you under the bus, screwed you on a deal, or are just being an asshole. Your first reaction is “fuck that guy(or girl)!” It’s a natural response when you feel like someone […]
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Ignore The Gatekeepers I’ve been reading Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent. The benefits of reading in his words how smart he is are…somewhat dubious, but it is entertaining none the less. One of the points that actually hit home for me was about ignoring the “gatekeepers.” All too often, when
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Back when I was a younger, less experienced (dumb) landman I had an encounter with The Cow. A lot of you reading this instantly know what cow I’m referring to. It’s that motherfucking scrawny piece of shit cow that had the dumb luck (or common sense, since we’re talking about The Cow) to take its
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Talking About Health We spend more time talking about “how important it is to take care of yourself” than we do actually taking care of ourselves. People are announcing New Years resolutions about going to the gym, and other people are trying to “educate” those people about how to behave in the gym. Working out
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You probably think this post is going to be about jackass landowners and their attorneys, or the overbearing micromanagement from the corporate headquarters…or maybe that dead cow on the lease road. Those are all part of the job. We signed up for it. The landman’s worst enemy is complacency. All of us tend to get
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In case you missed my post about the store closing at the end of the year, this is just another reminder. I’m taking some time off to focus on my healthy, my family, and my business (my actual business, not this store). Finding the time and motivation to run the store is something that I
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The Roadtrip to Nowhere Goes Digital This post started as a rant about how a whole new generation of landmen, or maybe it’s just half a generation…I’m not sure, are going to be starting their careers on “the digital roadtrip to nowhere.” For any of you that have been following along over the past 12
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Shoes on a Wire A few weeks ago on our way down to the ranch I noticed this pair of shoes on a high wire over the county road right outside the ranch entrance. Somebody must have quite the arm to get those up that high! I’ve driven by (technically under) those shoes quite a
The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is the best e-reader available, check out the full review here
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How it started In its original form LandmanLife was a blog on Blogspot.com that I started while working as a landman in rural Pennsylvania. Since it was my first landman “gig” I naturally had no idea what to do or how to do it, and being a Texas boy (fish out of water in rural
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