Organ donors, motorcycles, and statistics
Via MedPage Today: Over 9 days – the mean duration of a motorcycle rally – the net effect of motorcycle rallies resulted in 14% more organ donors and 19% more transplant recipients per day …
Read MoreI started blogging on February 2000, on a different domain and in a nacent phase of my life. I have an archive of my early posts, and I hope to begin adding them in here (I have a plain text export of my original Movable Type blog entries (nearly 1,000 entries!), so it will take a bit of time to move them to Markdown/Hugo.)
Eras of my blog:
- 2022 - Now - Corporate life ( 39 posts ~ 0.74 posts/month )
- 2020 - 2022 - Independence ( 26 posts ~ 0.72 posts/month )
- 2014 - 2020 - Agency life ( 60 posts ~ 0.71 posts/month )
- 2011 - 2014 - Dark days of unemployment ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2009 - 2011 - Professional peak ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2003 - 2008 - First job, marriage, and early career ( 6 posts ~ 0.08 posts/month )
- 2000 - 2003 - College ( 10 posts ~ 0.21 posts/month )
Total posts since 2000: 117 posts ~ 0.37 posts/month
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WaPo: "Texas’s new secessionist platform exposes a big GOP scam"
In an opinion today from Greg Sargent: The new platform, which thousands of GOP activists in Texas agreed to at the state party convention over the weekend, is a veritable piñata bursting with …
Read MoreThe Only Good Platform
In light of today’s Musk/Twitter news this is a good time to remind you that if you really care about your online identity, then you need to own it. You have no control or ownership of the …
Read MoreVolleyball
https://thomasjpr.smugmug.com/Black-Canyon-Volleyball-2022/n-bFKLBq/Black-Canyon-Volleyball-2022-02-06/i-NgR2kzS/A Sometimes the kid plays volleyball.
Read MorePresentation is Everything
Via Evergreen Media: Sometimes I write stuff. …there are good presentations and bad presentations. Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what separates the former from the latter, but you …
Read MorePodcast: Presentation is Everything
In the latest issue of The Green Note, I wrote about improving the quality of your presentations. As usual, there is also a podcast version. Enjoy!
Read MoreThe Importance of Mentoring
Via Evergreen Media: Getting to the important point, and the reason I’m give you a rundown of my boring resume: at nearly every step of the way, I had access to someone more experienced who could …
Read MoreCranes
Read MoreA rainy evening in Tacoma
It’s crazy how hearing a song can trigger a memory. Earlier today I was listening to a random playlist from my music collection, and a track from Chris Cornell’s Euphoria Morning played. …
Read MoreEssential Software
As a long-time nerd, I’ve used a lot of apps and have formed some very strong opinions about them. In 2021, these are my most essential apps for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Craft I’ve always …
Read MoreUnified Inbox
Via lolfi.com Back in like 2004 or 2005 you had a BlackBerry. There was an “app” on there (they weren’t called apps back then) where you would see all your incoming messages. Any type of messages, …
Read MoreSometimes I Cook: Sourdough Edition
Read MorePlanning a Plan (for 2021)
via Evergreen Media: If you’re asking, “what should I do differently [with my marketing plan] in 2021,” my response is this: be ready to do everything the same. And also different. Don’t …
Read MoreMarketing Funnel Basics
via Evergreen Media: Careful planning of your funnel will ensure that you have all of the necessary pieces in place so that you understand what works best for moving customers around your funnel.
Read MoreSolving Facebook Ad Account Issues
via Evergreen Media: If you are a regular advertiser on Facebook, you have certainly had the experience of an ad rejection. Ads can be flagged for any number of reasons, but they are usually easy to …
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