Latin was widely used in the Catholic religion as a way to disenfranchise the masses thus elevating the priesthood and the church to an undue empowered status. Luckily those days are behind us. Unfortunately that hasn’t stopped humans from seeking to retain special status over their fellow man. A lot of professions seek to unduly…
Read MoreI am convinced that on the day the bow-and-arrow was invented there were people who insisted it was not a sustainable because you’d run out of arrows. Therefore they will stick with their wooden clubs. But you know what, people still hunt with bows and as far as I know clubs seem to have gone out…
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed at the fact that truth is almost always the exact opposite of what is intuitively obvious. Nowhere is that more true than in the world of entrepreneurship. Being able to call one’s self an “entrepreneur” has become one of the most desirable cliches in the last few…
Read MorePeople are born with leadership traits, but that doesn’t inherently make them a leader. Thus leaders can’t be born, only made and the best are forged in the fires of failure. It’s easy to lead in success, it’s exponentially harder to lead people in difficult times because it is in those times then true human…
Read MoreI love America. But we are at risk of losing some of our shine. Case in point. Rwanda. Yes, that Rwanda. Rwanda will have 4G LTE with speeds at 100 Mbps to 95% of the populace. Let me say that again. Rwanda. 100 Mbps Internet. I am lucky on a very good day to get…
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Back in 2000 while a midshipman at the US Merchant Marine Academy I had the honor of meeting one of America’s 7 original Mercury astronauts, CDR Scott Carpenter. During his visit there was an opportunity for about 20 or so of us to meet for a Q&A session. One of the upperclassmen I recall asking…
Read More“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” ~ Adlai Stevenson Recently Tim O’Reilly wrote a post announcing the Code for America Fellowship. While I applaud the idea, and agree that many in Government are luddites, especially the elected portion of Government. But this…
Read MoreRemember back in the day when most people equated AOL with the “Internet”. For many AOL was the Internet. Very few people would venture out of the walled garden of AOL. But in time the web browser began to take hold. The Internet, or more appropriately the World Wide Web, took off. At first it…
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Highly recommend supporting the Goldie Blox movement. I supported them on Kickstarter last year and recently received the first kit which teaches belt drives, force, friction, and wheels & axels. It’s geared toward girls in that it combines both reading and building. With that said, it is perfectly good for boys as well. If Legos…
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Nor a geek cowboy 🙂
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