Looking back on my career in the tech industry I can see that, while living the life was exhilarating, that period in my life lacked balance. Not work-life balance — work has always been and will always be an integral part of my life — I’m talking about yin-yang balance.[…] Read On
About a month ago, Republicans sounded the alarm over the coming fracture in the Democratic party between Joe Biden moderates and Bernie/AOC socialists. How’d that turn out? The President rewarded the extremists with countless executive orders implementing their uber-progressive green energy and immigration agendas and everyone was happy. No fracture.[…] Read On
The world doesn’t need another conforming commentator for the social media #echochamber du jour. On the contrary, even before Twitter and Facebook were a thing, I always gravitated toward stories that the media and the mob got wrong, at least in my view. Call it contrarian if you want; it’s[…] Read On
If I hear one more person invoke the word “science” to defend their use of selective datasets or analytics to validate a preconceived viewpoint or ill-conceived decision I’m going to lose it. Seriously. Even when a broad dataset appears to point to one course of action there are always variables[…] Read On
I’ve seen some pretty spectacular leadership trainwrecks in my time and President Trump’s 2020 election meltdown is definitely near the top — or the bottom, depending on your point of view. Don’t get me wrong. Trump accomplished some great things during his term. For all his pomposity and exaggerations he[…] Read On
I’m not a fan of leaders who point fingers, play the blame game or play the victim card. What can I say, I don’t like cry babies. It’s bad enough to see any adult act like a whiny child. When a a business or political leader does it, it’s nauseating.[…] Read On
People will generally do what they’re incentivized to do. That doesn’t apply to everyone, mind you. Everyone is different. Unique. Unpredictable. And therein lies the rub. People are only predictable as a group. We rarely account for individual behavior, since we rarely know people well enough to know whether we[…] Read On