Have you ever taken the time to read an article online, and then read the comments section? Have you ever been bothered with the nature of online comments? The Guardian newspaper in England published an article about their results with the comments section attached to their online articles. There have been 70 million comments attached […]
Opiates & Pain
Sometimes I make a sound when I’m surprised, that sounds like “huh”. I passed a billboard on the Pennsylvania Turnpike this morning. “152 Montgomery County residents died of drug overdoses in 2015”. I made a sound of “huh”. —– More Americans died of drug overdoses in 2015 than from car accidents. And a lot of […]
Dear Basketball Gods
April 3, 2015: Thank you for letting Heather and I go to Houston to follow the improbable Villanova NCAA tournament run. It has been a lot of fun so far. A few random thoughts about the Final Four experience….. Watching an NCAA Final Four is a weird experience. A Final Four means that four different […]
Siri, Take Me To Work!
In the last 12 hours, I have filled my car with gas, driven my daughter to a sports clinic, and driven to work. There isn’t anything remarkable about any of that, except that all of that will probably change in the next 10 years. Two technology changes are coming to the automotive world: electric cars […]
Dinner Plates
A year ago, my wife purchased a new set of dinner plates. They were smaller than our previous dinner plates. They are about 7 inches across, compared to the previous plates, which were 12 inches across. I like big dinner plates. When I say “big”, I mean like the size of trash can lids. I […]
Same Seat, Different Day
Pretend that you and I are sitting together on a flight. One of us paid $100 for our ticket, and one of us paid $1,000 for the ticket. Which person do you want to be? The person who paid $100, or $1,000? —– My wife recently purchased three airline tickets. Two were for our daughter, […]
Showing Up
My role models show up for everything that they sign up for. They haven’t missed a day of work in the last decade, as far as I can tell. They show up. They attend every family gathering, and every social commitment that they commit to. This is remarkable to me. When my alarm goes off […]
Monsters Under The Bed
A few years ago, there was an animated movie called “Monsters Inc.” It was about a group of monsters who scared small children in order to collect the energy from their screams. The idea of “monsters under the bed” is part of our culture. After the lights go out at night, what is under the […]
Building Bridges
I had a business trip scheduled several years ago in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I was supposed to meet with a group of web designers who were going to help me build a website. My boss connected me with this group of people- I had not worked with them before. I sent them a proposed agenda […]
Our Own Best Interests
Why do we do things that are bad for us? If Darwin was correct, we evolved in a “survival of the fittest” manner, and now represent the best and the brightest that DNA has to offer. So if we are the best and the brightest, why do we hurt ourselves with our own behavior? What […]
