A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990’s I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell,…
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego – a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms,…
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research…
The first time my wife walked into my office crying, I knew two things. First, I knew something bad had happened (like she’d made some mistake she felt awful about). Second, I knew that adding my own emotions wouldn’t help…
When I was a kid I was told that I had to get good grades in high school to get into a good college. And then I would have to do well in college to get a good first job.…
Are You Planning Your Next Year? We’re just a couple of days from the new year. And if you’re like me, you can’t wait for a new year to start so we can get past what’s been two very long…
First, I’m Not Quitting Sometimes when you blog about something, on your personal blog, people infer that it’s an indirect (or really direct) reflection of what’s going on in life. That may be the case for posts like yesterday’s where…
Most of us, at the end of the year, take some time for rest. Time to slow down, to think about and plan for the next year. But here’s what I know – one or even two weeks off to…
Blogging daily is a discipline. It’s not as hard as it looks. You sit at the computer and you don’t get up until your post is published. Sure there are little tricks, but that’s not the hard part. The hard…
Hey, it’s my blog, right? So if I want to tell you how amazing my wife is, I get to do that. And you can skip today’s post, but I suggest you don’t because there’s a lesson in here for…