Goodbye, Greatest Generation

More signs in the ongoing ‘Boomers out, millennials in’ discussion that will soon re-shape global society: at the 40th anniversary of D-Day (30 years ago), there were close to 11 million D-Day veterans still alive. Last week, at the 70th… Continue Reading

Jock Hutton is 89 and a D-Day veteran. He parachuted into Normandy on the anniversary.

You can see the headcam version here: When he landed, he got to chat with Prince Charles for a while (cool). 70 years ago today, this was his deal: Aged just 19, he was one of the first to land… Continue Reading

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Did you ever stop and think that the military advances people who sacrifice themselves over others, whereas almost every company advances people who sacrifice others for themselves?

Watched this Simon Sinek TED Talk before bed last night and was thinking about it a little more this morning. First of all — and this is a bit of a generalization — but businesses/organizations tend to love having military… Continue Reading

We love to talk about drones and Amazon. But what if drones could really help Africa?

First off, to anyone that actually reads this thing, apologies for not blogging since last Wednesday; I was at a conference and ’twas hard to sit down and compose some posts. I’ll be at similar conferences twice in April, so… Continue Reading