A Father’s Gift, Part 3: How Computers Work and how Business Works
At this point in my life, I'm 19 years old, been in college for one year and have only ever worked one real job so far - fast food. Yes, I managed to hold down a fast food career for five years. With the advent of a new position in an office environment needless to...
Big Questions about Big Data
Since I started my entrepreneurial venture just a short while ago I have been immersed in learning about marketing. As a seasoned IT professional for more than 20 years I know what it means to face something brand new and to invest the time to make it useful. As I...
What is Reflective Logic?
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard One of my very favorite movies is The Matrix. In the Matrix, the hero is seeking something that he knows exists but does not quite understand. When he finally encounters what it...
A Father’s Gift, Part 2: Starting College and Discovering the Internet
The year I started college was an interesting time. I had largely abandoned my computing hobby because what was now important was school and work and time with the girlfriend. Of course, I used the computer to write reports and create materials for projects in school...
To cloud or not to cloud, that is the question
You don't have to spend too much time with technology media and advertising these days to run across the use, and misuse, of the term “cloud”. Yes, cloud is the current “must have” of the industry. To a business leader that depends on information technology systems it...
The timely and the timeless
Time itself is largely an abstraction. If not for the rhythmic changes in the universe all around us we may not have even come to recognize time. After all, if nothing changed then time is irrelevant. We do however live in a world where time relativity is everything....
A Father’s Gift, Part 1: The Beginning
As a child in 1983 I was privileged to live in the age of the birth of the home video game console. The Atari 2600 was the king of the block in all its Asteroids and Space Invaders glory. Needless to say, I wanted one – bad. I pestered my father almost daily to get me...