February 2005
10 posts
100 Ways to Succeed #65:
I love Tom Peters. You should too. This comes from one of his posts from today. Brilliant! —- Retirement Sucks! Stay angry! Change the world! Never give up! Never give in! Die trying! —- Thanks Tom! You couldn’t be more right! You rock!
Why I love the blog "kick"
Everyone’s getting into it. Some people have been into it for awhile. Some haven’t. But, I think the best thing about blogging is that it gives everyone a way to carry on a conversation. All the time. Today someone left me a comment. A great old friend from high school that I rarely get to see. She happened upon my site, dropped me a line, and lit up my life with experiences from her...
Radical Centrism
I spent the weekend at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education for work. I also got to hang out with a wonderful product marketing guru from my company. He’s a physicist by trade, but has honed his skills in product management for many years. He’s one of the most revered in the industry. Dr. Ernie, as he’s called, has started a website/movement called Radical...
City As a Product
St. Louis’ airport is blue. A little kid is kicking the back of my seat. I can’t really fault his hyperactivity, I’m sure I annoyed quite a few people on planes as a kid. But, being from Montana, I didn’t have the chance to fly all that much. Times have changed. STL is interesting. Seems to be deteriorating since the last time I was there. Sad in a way, as the architecture...
Serious Chocolate
Restaurants all over the world compete with each other to see who can fill their menu with the biggest words possible. They also compete to stay in business. A quick Google search will show you that close to half of the restaurants in San Francisco close within 6 months of opening. How do you stay in business as long as the veritable Moose’s North Beach in San Francisco? Cut out the crap:...
More on Greenspan
Scary. Is the one word to describe the lack of intelligence many members of the House Committee on Financial Services displayed in their questioning of Mr. Greenspan today. It was almost as if they had no idea what to ask about. Greenspan articulately answered questions which basically had no factual basis. He also fielded angry democratic banter, which predominantly made absolutely no sense. This...
A wise man.
Alan Greenspan is brilliant. Absolutely off the wall brilliant. He is a credit to the economy and democracy that we all know and enjoy. Listening to him discuss Social Security on my way to work this morning on NPR was incredible. This man can take the most complex, sometimes overly complex, questions about the state of our nation and economy and turn them into intelligently articulated answers....
Kal-i-for-nya
Tom Peters hit a chord with me today. With his post on leaving the east for California. I left Montana in 1999 for school at the University of Colorado. I was scared. Really scared. I grew up in Montana, a place where material wealth doesn’t matter. A place where it’s about life, not wages, not consuming. It’s about the outdoors, friends, and family. Colorado began an evolution...
Dormant
So. Yes, my blog has been lacking. Ridiculously. There’s a gamut of excuses that I could lay out. Work, travel, travel for work, the hotel that has become my apartment over the last few weeks. But, in all reality I’ve been working on an all new version of this very site. Most of the work has gone in to the part that you, the reader, never sees. Code, data structures, HTML, and the all...
Seat Heaters for Mars
Shouldn’t we make sure we don’t overheat the one we are already living on before we try “warming up” another planet? Seriously.
