This is a weird little personal statistic, but I’ve been in about 20 conversations over the last six months where someone mentioned Apple (the company) and tried to explain their success, and basically got some of it right, but otherwise… Continue Reading
Here’s a rabbit hole I went down yesterday: Read this article (in print, not online because I’m old school!) about Bosnian war criminals living in the U.S. and how they might be deported. Asked my wife, “Wait, why are we… Continue Reading
This is kind of interesting. MIT has this project called “ULab,” which is designed to transform higher education. That’s a pretty complex topic to tackle, because a lot of the problems with higher education come from the context of how… Continue Reading
I originally wrote this back in March ’15, but I decided to repurpose it a little bit because of recent events. The Original Story It’s been snowing/freezing raining in “The Metroplex” of Dallas-Fort Worth since basically about Tuesday, so this… Continue Reading
97% of single women consider having a sense of humor just as important as physical attractiveness these days, eh? Nice. Continue Reading
Cue it up: This finding was not a quirk of trying to measure subjective sense of humour. The researchers repeated the experiment, only this time with tests of logical reasoning and grammar. These disciplines have defined answers, and in each… Continue Reading
This about sums it up. Here’s a story from a couple of years ago: when my wife and I were dating, we drove up the Mississippi from Jacksonville to Minneapolis. Ironically, two years after that trip, we ended up living… Continue Reading
Maturity and professionalism are a thing, yes, but … if we let people “play” at work, we could achieve so much. Continue Reading