Truth
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, …
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
All Posts
Today
It was a little over six years ago that my family moved out of the Washington, DC area. After living and working there for almost a decade, it was our home. We had purchased our first home, and one …
Read MoreSometimes I watch stuff
I think more than anything else this year, I’ve needed escapist entertainment. I avoid cable news at all costs, and I give a thumbs-down review to any shows which let the real world creep too …
Read More3 Disciplines for Marketing
Via Evergreen Media: Supply chains have been disrupted, and brick-and-mortar shopping has taken a hit. Your customers are consuming more and more hours of content on streaming services and only want …
Read More2020 Manifesto
For my friends, colleagues, and family members, it’s probably a weird time to be in my orbit. Everyone has always known me a conservative, a Republican political operative who built a career out of …
Read MoreInclusive Marketing
via Evergreen Media: As brand marketers, we have a responsibility to our customers to portray humanity fairly (if you are more interested in an unfair portrayal, you should go into political …
Read MoreZip It
From How-To Geek: The year is 1995. You’re stuck with slow floppy disks that only hold 1.44 MB of data. But there’s an exciting new technology: Zip drives, which can hold 100 MB and free you from …
Read MoreBookmark it for life
My oldest daughter, a student at a prestigious northwestern institution of higher learning, is contemplating a trip across the Cascades this weekend. Seeking my advice as a sage veteran of mountain …
Read MoreEmail: Embrace The Chaos
Really enjoyed this piece by Rachel Kramer Bussel: Not for the first time, I considered declaring email bankruptcy: mass-deleting all the newsletters, marketing promos, Google news alerts, and notes …
Read More"...no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys"
Apple responds to AG Barr on phone unlocking: read the full statement here: Earlier today Attorney General William Barr called on Apple to unlock the alleged phone of the Pensacola shooter — a man who …
Read MoreChallenges and Opportunities
Sometimes I write for other sites: > All of this is to say that the privacy landscape is changing. For consumers, these are changes for the better. Proper regulation of the collection and …
Read MoreMCU Movies - The Definitive Ranking
(Revised 2023-11-29) There are many lists of Marvel movies, but this one is mine. There’s no particular criteria for my rankings, though “rewatch-ability” is very important. Here is the Definitive …
Read MoreEnd of Watch
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission - The New York Times: Opportunity, the longest-lived roving robot ever sent to another planet, explored the red plains of Mars for more than …
Read MoreProfessional Sports and Social Media
As an avid fan of both the NFL and NBA I was noticing today the differences between their social media strategies. Both leagues are very active on Twitter — posting several times per hour with news …
Read MoreRIP Paul Allen
We lost Paul Allen yesterday. Growing up in the northwest, his influence loomed over the region, but in a good way, not in the possibly bad way of some contemporaries. Paul Allen existed at the …
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