This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Up came out in the United States on May 29, 2009. I had been planning on seeing it in New York City with one group of friends — essentially my core friends at the time — but another group of friends (rather,… Continue Reading
What if your job had one thing you focused on MOST of the time (major) and one thing you used to pursue passion? (Minor) That’s how we set up education. Could it foster employee engagement? Continue Reading
Kayelyn Louder disappeared from Utah (Murray) a few weeks ago. The basic details are here: she was last seen leaving her condo at 5:45 on a Saturday, running out into the rain (odd) — barefoot, no less — and the video… Continue Reading
“Your brand’s website and online presence needs to align around targeted customer intent(s), not traditional keywords-focused optimization,” notes Grant Simmons in a 2013 Search Engine Watch post. “Focus toward tactics that will play to Google’s more complex side: Mapping queries to actions,… Continue Reading
I’ve written about topics akin to this a few different times — for example, 82 percent of managerial hires are probably the wrong one and intrinsic motivation isn’t really that well-understood and maybe leadership’s focus should be on empathy — and now… Continue Reading
I went to Montreal for New Year’s Eve 2008 to 2009. First word of caution: don’t go to Montreal for New Year’s Eve. It’s a beautiful city and it has a tremendous food/beer culture, but … on December 31 of a given… Continue Reading
If you read this post about my experiences at DFW WordCamp this weekend, and you get down to the middle of it, you might see an admission about how, despite the urging of the event organizers not to do this, I ended… Continue Reading
If you’ve never heard of the Colonial Parkway murders, you can start here for some details. There were four couples that went missing, and were later found deceased, between 1986 and 1988 (or 1989, give or take). The first couple to… Continue Reading