Five years ago this month I launched the community improvement website RichmondBrainstorm.com. The site allowed users to submit ideas for ways to make Richmond, Indiana a better place, allowed other users to discuss and vote on those ideas, and shared…
Continuing in the theme of last week's post on how I became a computer geek, I thought I'd also share some thoughts on how I learned to run a business. I get asked now and then what path led me…
Occasionally people ask me how I got started working in the world of computers and Internet technology. There were a lot of different factors - from my own curiosity to the learning and discovering my parents and teachers encouraged to…
Okay, not ALL of my books. But a few months ago I did start trying to significantly reduce the number of printed edition books that I was storing at home. It was one part of an overall attempt to minimize…
I decided at the beginning of 2013 that I was going to go for the entire year without eating pizza. I guess you could have called it a New Year's Resolution. For the past several years, I've tried to come…
2013 has been a year of change for me in my professional life and at my company, Summersault. The changes were set in motion by a combination of intentional planning and dealing with the unexpected, and navigating them has been…
Here's a recording of a panel I was on at the 2013 Earlham School of Religion Leadership Conference, where we talked about marketing with integrity: And here's a video of me speaking at 2012's TedXRichmond (Indiana) event, about being stuck,…
I really don't enjoy exercising for the sake of exercise. In my ideal world, my daily activities in the course of making a living and living my life would be sufficiently physically active that I didn't need to add on…
(This article originally appeared in the August 16, 2013 edition of The Earlham Word, printed for new students beginning their first year at the college.) Like many of you are doing now, I arrived as a new student on this…
I've always enjoyed hooking together pieces of technology in new and interesting ways. When I was a kid I rigged up a small water pump to a series of pulleys, rope and switches to squirt water at anyone (read: my…