Quality, Value and the Disposable Society
Bottled water, smart phones, car leases and even marriages, does anything really last anymore? As I continue learning daily about the marketplace around me I cannot help but notice the absence of messages promoting quality and value. What seems to be there instead are...
Reflective Logic Systems 2014 Year End Newsletter
Hi Everyone and thank for for being a part of the Reflective Logic Systems newsletter readership. As always, if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter please unsubscribe using the links below. I definitely do not want to add unnecessarily to your already...
Critical Thinking, WTF?
It's fun to watch the changes that technology has had on modern vocabulary. There are so many different ways to express oneself through cheeky sophisticated brevity. From the challenge to hashtag as many words as possible in one tweet to those fun acronyms that...
Thinking of outsourcing devops?
In the early 2000s I had the opportunity to work on a truly greenfield project. This was a once or twice in a career chance to create a system from scratch, something I had always wanted to be a part of. The project involved creating a system to help the client's...
A Father’s Gift, Part 4: One Step Down, Two Steps Up
Once the time came to leave the mortgage company job I found myself back in my old stomping grounds, fast food. This was a bittersweet re-acquaintance as I had truly thought I had moved on from this sort of work into greener pastures. While that was partly true, it...
Is MacGyver your CIO?
Remember MacGyver from the 80s television show of the same name? For those of you that do not, MacGyver was a popular 80s television series about a really clever guy who could make useful gadgets out of anything. He could start a car with chewing gum, he could hack an...
Optimists, meet the Courageous
When I was a teenager several of us would go down to the lake where there was a highway bridge that crossed over the water. It was the perfect distance from the water to jump off of and the water was plenty deep. Trouble with this bridge was that it was both a busy...
Putting the ass in SaaS
The new cloudy world of software subscriptions has been an interesting exploration. Since I started my business I've signed up for many services including: domain registration, web hosting, VOIP, CRM, email, calendar, contacts, professional networking, online banking,...
Tired of your managed IT service provider?
We've all been there. The relationship that starts out like something in the movies, she's gorgeous; he's gorgeous; they complete each other's thoughts, it's wonderful. Then one day he farts at the dinner table. She starts leaving her dirty socks in the living room....
Should I outsource my CIO?
In the last few months, I've been reading several books. Some of the titles that impressed me include "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown and "The Phoneix Project" by Gene Kim and Kevin Behr. Since I completed those titles, I am now about halfway through with "The Future...