jonathan eppers

sorry i’ve been preoccupied with figuring shit out

i feel bad. i’ve sort of ignored jonathaneppers.com (me) for the last few months. i guess you could say this is partly a reflection of all the things going on in my life. 

i’m one of those people that has a hard time focusing on any one thing for to long. it’s always been something i’ve struggled with because some things in my life, especially the things i care about the most, really do take a lot of focus and attention. i’ve not always done a great job at this. you name it: friends, check. relationships, check. job, check. life, eh.. check?

i’m 29 and by all means, my late teens and throughout my twenties have been a whirlwind in itself. but i guess that sort of happens to everyone, right? like we go through our twenties and by the time we hit thirty, we’re supposed to be more serious, mature and, eh.. focused? yea, focused.

if there’s one thing i would say is noticeably more important in my life, it would most definitely be my family. i’m lucky. i come from a really great family - married parents, four brothers and lots of grandparents, aunts/uncles and cousins. they support all my mistakes (and accomplishments) and they just love me. as someone who played a lot of sports growing up, it’s the best team i’ve ever been part of. 

so what does all this mean? 

for me, jonathaneppers.com is just a place i can write. it’s like my own diary, domain and all. only difference is this one’s public. anyone who comes here can listen to what i’m thinking at the very moment i posted it.

i’m going to start spending much more time writing on here. it’s really about me, not you (and i mean that in the most humble of ways). 

they say writing helps you focus because it takes focus. so i’m starting there.

next up for me, how i see myself in the world. stay tuned.

today, we turned on firststring!

today is a huge day for me because we finally turned on firststring for select high school athletes > check it out!

firststring, in it’s current form, is an aggregator of local, regional and national high school sports content that is indexed in to athlete and team profiles based on location. this is really the early foundation for what will become something that is much bigger over the next few months leading up to the start of the fall 2011 high school sports season.

select athletes and teams in southern california, texas and indiana will have the opportunity to test out use firststring over the next few months until we decide to open it up to more athletes this coming fall.

i’m so proud of our team and all the hard work and passion that went in to making sure we could get firststring launched this month. you really can’t build a great company without really great people and i’m super proud to be associated with such talented teammates who all believe in firststring’s mission.

stay tuned. we’re only just starting -