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Continue reading →: Learning to Weld (Better)
Last Christmas Santa brought Matt and I materials and blueprints for a REALLY cool go-kart called The Arachnid. This go-kart is build from standard square tube steel stock, a Predator motor and other knick-knacks (pedals, steering wheel, brakes, etc.) from sites around the internet. We’ve done a lot of motor…
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Continue reading →: The Art of the Possible?
It’s finally happened; we’ve created a podcast! The Art of the Possible, co-hosted by my friend and colleague, Dan Morrison, is a conversation, often animated, between Rob Page and Dan Morrison about customer experience, technology, culture, and ethics. Special guests join the fray to share new perspectives and explore the…
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Continue reading →: The (Yet Another) Case for biometric authentication
Seriously, this makes my physically upset. Two guesses left…. Programmer is likely to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin.
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Continue reading →: The Right to Repair & the cost of e-waste
Is this the beginning of the end of our disposable-everything modus operandi? The cost of disposability is getting high.
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Continue reading →: Balancing focus, deep competence, and diversity
This post is nothing more than a pointer to an excellent article by Michael Simmons entitled, “People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research.” Click over there now and read it. It’s a sixteen (16) minute read (so says Medium).
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Continue reading →: Servant Leadership – a Prime Minister cleans up his own spilled coffee
The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, sets the highest examples to leaders everywhere. The people there will never, NEVER, forget this. THIS is servant leadership.
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Continue reading →: Teaching/Learning Paradox
We advance in our individual lives and, as a species by learning. If we didn’t learn we’d still be in caves. For the most successful and happy people, learning is a pleasure. I can’t get enough of whatever brain chemical is produced when I have an “ahhhh – NOW I…
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Continue reading →: Tesla manufacturers mobile computers
On May 23, Consumer Reports declined to recommend the Tesla Model 3 due to higher-than-ideal stopping distance. Seven (7) (!) days later Tesla released a software update that reduced stopping distance which, in turn, provoked Consumer Reports to issue a recommendation. On 20 Aug, 2011, Marc Andreesen wrote a seminal…
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Continue reading →: Apple missed a HUGE boat
I love my Apple Watch. The modular watch face with complications from each of: personal calendar (Apple cal) work calendar (Fantastical) weather (Accueeather) battery level (built-in) fitness circles (built-in) is EXACTLY what I want in a watch face. Soon, I’ll get the Watch 3 with embedded LTE and I’ll be…
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