I guess it’s been a while
I’d hoped when I started this that I wouldn’t take months off in between posts. I guess I became that guy. Things have been busy at work, at home, blah …
SMU Mustangs Tame Nevada: Preston Stone’s Redemption, Coach Lashlee’s QB Quest, and a Game Full of Grit
In a season opener that felt like a wild ride on a Texas ranch, the SMU Mustangs managed to wrangle a 24-21 victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack. It was …
Authenticity Always Wins — The Secret to Choosing Your Videoconference Background
Ditch the Bland Backdrop. Your Video Call Background Needs a Personality Boost In today’s world of endless Zoom meetings, Teams calls, and virtual coffee breaks, the backdrop you choose for …
Time To Take Out The Trash
It’s dirty. It’s messy. It smells awful. No I’m not talking about your teenager’s bedroom. I’m talking about the landfills where all our solid trash ends up. They weren’t meant …
Waves Could Turn The Tide
Sometimes I read about truly breakthrough innovations and I think “How did they even think to do that?” And other times I see things that appear to be obvious and …
The Problem With Bully Blowhards
I hate bullies, and I hate blowhards. You can imagine my disdain for bully blowhards. We had one who was the President of the United States for a while and …
Winning never gets old
It doesn’t matter if it’s her first win (which this was) or if a horse is highly decorated with black-type wins, any time your horse crosses the finish line first …
A Good Reminder To Give Yourself Some Credit – And Then Keep Working
I just discovered Nat Eliason. No, the main image above isn’t him. I still really have no idea who he is beyond one article he wrote (I’ll read more of …
Keeping up with the lingo: “search engine” versus “answer engine”
For more than 30 years, we’ve relied on search engines to help us find information online. You know the names: Yahoo, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, InfoSeek, Webcrawler, AltaVista, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, …
Brexit Got Brits Singing The Blues
File this story under “Well, that didn’t take long.” Just five years after the official breakaway of the UK separating itself from the European Union, the majority of residents now …
“The Celtics Are The Balls” — Banner 18 Has Been Secured
In 1984, Boston Celtics fan Donnie Beardsley boldly proclaimed the Celtics would win their 15th NBA title in true Masshole fashion: “Who’s gonna win it? The Celtics. Because there’s no …
Stocks Hit the Sweet Spot
Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about where retired baby boomers are putting their money. No, I’m not a boomer. I’m a proud GenX’er, but that also means I’m …
Is it time to reduce, reuse, or recycle the RECYCLE logo?
The iconic recycling logo, which originally promised environmental benefits, has been misused and manipulated by corporations over the last 50 years, especially “Big Plastic”, to mislead the public. Despite widespread …
High Risk, High Reward: A Story About Legos
I recently read an article about Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of the Lego Group, which is now the world’s largest toy company with nearly $10 Billion in revenue last …
Hitachi Energy Commits $6 Billion To Fuel “Electrification”
In April this year, Hitachi Energy committed $1.5 Billion to accelerate energy infrastructure products. Last week they pledged another $4.5 Billion toward transmission and distribution systems, plus other pieces of …
The Future of AI in Everyday Life
From Science Fiction to Everyday Reality, AI is Now Our Digital Butler Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a concept from sci-fi movies anymore — it’s quickly becoming our everyday digital …
Role of the co-worker: friend, family, frenemy?
Lots of articles from so-called experts these days on how to define your co-workers: are they friends? Are they “work spouses”? Should they be considered family? Or are they just …
Shedding some light on the situation
I was recently sitting at a restaurant with someone who was struggling to read the menu due to low light. It wasn’t candle-lit dining, mind you, but just normal evening …
Apple Vision Pro’s “spacial persona”
Apple recently introduced an upgrade to their “personas” for the Vision Pro headset. A persona is essentially an avatar. People who play video games, use phone messaging apps, or AR/VR …
Energy For “Smart Contact Lenses” In The Blink Of An Eye
Smart contact lenses are gaining popularity in health-tech circles for both diagnostic and recreational purposes, such as monitoring glucose levels, receiving targeted drug delivery for ocular diseases, experiencing augmented reality, …
“Headline Hysteria: Tabloid Tall Tales Totally True!”
Everyone loves a good headline. A real hook, line, and sinker piece of juicy bait to pull you in. And nobody does headlines better than a tabloid newspaper. I saw …
Techniques for better communication
I read this article about communication/conversation in Fast Company over the weekend and thought it was insightful. It’s fascinating that while the title is about the “the way you talk,” …
Some Teachers Use ChatGPT To Grade Papers
In the latest installment of “Do what I say, not what I do,” teachers have begun using AI at school. The same schools, perhaps, that ban students from using AI …
Apple says “iCant” to iCar
Ok, so maybe it was never going to be called “iCar”, but that’s what people dubbed it for nearly a decade. And now, finally, Apple has scrapped its plans to …
Watch your back! (And your front and sides.)
Doorbell cameras are getting hacked, and unfortunately the hardware and software make it fairly easy to do so. In February, Consumer Reports investigated some popular brands that were as simple …