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Nextdoor: Digital Neighborhoods for Physical Neighbors
A few months ago someone in the village I live in started our very own social media network. No, they didn’t find a venture capitalist to front them the money to serve our 1,500 plus neighbors. We...
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How Values Shape Us
I heard Ken Blanchard say once in a video training series that value statements should be no more than 5 in number, and should, in some senses be nested within each other. We as people are shaped to a...
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Clyde-isms #9 Not How I Count
Courtesy Rod Penner This is one of several posts written to honor my mother-in-law, Clyde. Yes, that’s really HER name! She is a great lady. She raised her children well, blessing them with a...
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3 Disastrous “D”s of Paralysis By Perfectionism and The Antidote
When we fail to decide, we decide to fail. Have you ever been paralyzed by the need to make a decision? You know, the kind of situation where, presented with good options all around, you still...
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When Work-Life Balance Wears You Out
Life can be hectic. It doesn’t seem to get any easier despite new technologies. Years ago I was in a particularly busy stage in life. It was when I was in grad-school. I was newly married, was...
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Remembering Nine Eleven – 13 Years Later
I originally posted this in 2012, but felt it worth reposting today. Remembering nine eleven and what happened then matters now. She was only a little girl when I laid her down for bed that night. We...
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Interview with Self-Pay Patient Expert Sean Parnell
One of the best parts about blogging is developing relationships with people from very different locations and different walks of life. One such blogging friendship that I’ve developed in the past year...
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How To Keep Your House Warm This Winter
I remember the first winter after our wedding. We were living in north Texas, which at least once or twice a season will get a real blast of winter. It may change in a day or so, but for a few days...
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Immersion is Why Rosetta Stone Works
When I was in junior high school and high school I took French. I even took French during college. But I never learned to speak French. Oh, I tried to, and goodness knows I had excellent teachers....
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Dynamic Immersion | How Rosetta Stone Works
In my first post in this series I wrote about my experience learning to speak Mandarin Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan. Our language learning experience was incredibly well designed, and was based on a...
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You Have To Finish To Succeed
Hubris. It happens. It doesn’t have to. We humans are not required to express excessive pride. But we do. All of us. At some point. For the football player in the following video you see hubris. He...
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Why Facebook Is Growing and Not Growing (at the same time)
I think I’ve figured out why Facebook is less and less favored by teens and more and more favored by those of us who haven’t been teens in a long long time. One of the neatest things, for me at least,...
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Thoughts at 54
My 54th year has not been an easy year. Family has been great. Work great. But physically, it was a year of unexpected surprises. No surprise was greater than the one I received in early February:...
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Can You Drop Off The Grid?
A friend sent me a text the other day that said that if he were a farmer he could completely drop off the grid. In his instance he was talking about dropping off more than the electric grid (which is...
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Canopy is Amazon Curated
Back in 2013 I discovered Fab, the online merchant that takes design to a new level. By design I mean the thoughtfulness not just of what an item might look like in your home, but design as a well...
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Peer To Peer Power
I love peer to peer. Just to be clear, peer to peer has multiple meanings. It can apply to computer file sharing, computer networks (as in ad-hoc), but also to social networking. Peer to peer in the...
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Merry Christmas 2014
A cold night. A long trip. An expected but inconvenient Birth. Across the centuries, across the cultures, the message of that Birth still resonates, bringing a new set of possibilities. Hope. Joy....
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The Everpresent Ubiquitous Depersonalization of Data
I blog about technology and leadership because I enjoy helping people make sense of what is going on in the technology world. For the longest time that world was almost always limited to “big” items....
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TurboTax Abused Trust; Trying To Walk Back Damage to Brand
You knew this was coming. TurboTax lights off a firestorm of complaints from their most loyal of customers by gutting the Deluxe version they have used in the past, and attempting to strong arm their...
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Recharging Your Batteries
Back in the early nineties we were living and working in Southern Africa. It was an amazing experience in many ways. No telephone. No television. No fast food. Few conveniences by 2015 standards,...
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