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Carpetbags of Versatility
"Times and conditions change so rapidly we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future." Walt Disney When you assume your leading...
Jan 12, 20195 min read


To Make a Great Product or Service, Stay Away from the Office!
I once worked as a product manager for the world’s 9th largest software company. When the VP of R&D came to town, if you were a product...
Jan 11, 20193 min read


We're Number One!
My New Year’s resolution was to recover from televised, American football addiction. So tonight’s college championship is just the last...
Jan 7, 20194 min read


There's No Present Like Time
“There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme.” Georgia Byng, Molly Moon's...
Dec 21, 20186 min read


Classes of Impossible
For those who celebrate Chanukah, the miracle of the lights is a reflection, of tradition, survival and hope. It is a remembrance of Maccabean Jews and a civil war, a rededication of the temple, and an astounding observation of candlelight. The time is a reflection of history -- teaching and embracing, holding together a faith and way of life. I like to imagine the Jewish elders of two millennia ago, keepers of the temple, seeing the scant amount of pure oil, then making t
Dec 2, 20185 min read


The HMS Beagle and You
"Taxonomy was Darwin’s foundation,” wrote biologist Mary Winsor. It demands your artistic creativity and your scientific curiosity. Yo
Nov 21, 20186 min read


All Aboard for 5G
With 5G’s impending entry, I wonder how many customers and firms have prepared for it, using the technology wave as impetus for their own...
Nov 16, 20187 min read


Rapidly in blues
En route to a Storage Area Networking (SAN) supplier, whose offerings were under consideration for our in-house data center transformation, I had just completed a four-hour flight. My thoughts were accompanied by the quintessential, American classical jazz masterpiece that was played throughout the United Airlines airport terminal. Rhapsody in Blue just never gets old. Can you believe it’s been almost 30 years since that musical campaign began for the Friendly Skies?! I
Nov 9, 20185 min read


Worn out Views
“Through its panes, moreover, we dimly catch the sweep of the dark, clustering foliage outside, fluttering with a constant irregularity...
Oct 31, 20185 min read


Cloud -- Ancient Silk Road
I can’t say what Greg Newbold’s characters are thinking in his Cloud Watching artistry. But I know that each of us sees something...
Oct 19, 20185 min read

