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  • The fastest way to turn money into noise

    After my whirlwind trip to Germany last week, I decided to take Friday off and head down with my daughter and her friend to the twice annual Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot. I think I missed it completely last year, so it was nice to get a chance to go. Nothing really stood out, but…

  • 90 second book review: Alexander The Great

    A quick review of the most recent casualty out of my “to read” pile: Alexander the Great by Lewis V. Cummings.  Short for two reasons: I have to head to the airport in less than an hour (to fly to Germany for 12 hours to present 5 slides to 4 guys to get one question…

  • A day on the "freecoast"

    Spending the day on the coast in an FSP event in a pretty cool venue (old church that’s now a bar)

  • 90 second book review: The End of Faith

    I’ve been stuck on this review for a while, but we are leaving tomorrow for a mini vacation to New Hampshire, so I decided to just get down what’s in my head and check it off the list.  It’s not going to get any better with time – at least for now.  One the plus…

  • Small project

    This should keep me busy the next few weekends.

  • The Geek of Zen: Personal productivity system update

    One of my unofficial new year’s resolutions (all of them have been unofficial for the last few years…makes it more of a surprise – even to me – when they happen) was to be more intentional about how I spend my time. Perhaps its a bit of “a pirate looks at forty” (a few years…

  • My new home office setup

    Standing desk, nice mic and headphones for conference calls, dual screens and a mechanical keyboard.

  • Missing things

    Overheard today: “I like my iWatch because before I’d miss calls and texts.” I wonder how much gets missed by all that not missing?

  • Latest episode of Mason's adventure in autodidaction

    With the first full week of this year’s run at Mason’s adventure in autodidaction (Executive decison: from hence forth that will be the show name!) in the books, we sat down and did a week in review. If you’re interested in how he spent his days and what he’s picking up take a listen. I’m…