FIRST, A LITTLE BACKGROUND: I've been absent from the blog for a couple of months because of a health-scare. I won't go into a ton of detail but am happy to share that, while I'm certainly not emerging from this unscathed, I am in good health and have resumed leading a pretty normal life. That... Continue Reading →
I happened to be doing a quick scan of LinkedIn when a post caught my eye. It was a large photo of a smiling - and clearly disabled - young man. Moreover, the post was from his father who said that this was his son Matt who had just turned 25 years old and then... Continue Reading →
More than a decade ago, an IT friend of mine first introduced me to the Gartner Hype Cycle and I was equally parts amused and impressed with the it. (For those of you not familiar with them, Gartner is a technology research and consulting company and they were one of the handful of consulting firms... Continue Reading →
Without picking a side or even a specific issue, I'll offer the observation that it feels like people are not willing to meet in the middle on issues anymore and that we are as polarized now as we've ever been... or at least that's the sense I get from watching the news. Having said that,... Continue Reading →
Someone recently recommended a casual word game to me and so I downloaded it onto my iPad. Sure enough, it's an enjoyable time waster where you form words out of a 5 x 5 grid of letters. What's a little different about this game, however, is that you can swipe left-or-right to rotate the board... Continue Reading →
There's a sorta-famous saying attributed to Albert Einstein where he observed that the moment you stop learning is the moment you start dying. Personally, I believe that to be one of the universal truths of existence. When we are learning, we are engaged - perhaps physically, perhaps mentally, perhaps both - and that fans the... Continue Reading →
Let's be honest - we typically get told "no" way more often than we ever hear "yes." Applying for jobs, asking someone out on a date, suggesting something new at work or even asking for ice cream at breakfast. No. No. No! No!!! The world, in short, has a lot more Nos than Yeses. So... Continue Reading →
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