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Til Death Do Us Part
It is said that many marriages run aground on the rocks of unrealistic expectations. The old saw claims that every bride looks at her groom and thinks, “I can change him!” Each groom gazes at his...
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Investing For Your Future
It is happening all too frequently these days. I get a call or an email from a recruiter with the same story: a great person has lost their job and is looking for a new position. This person is a...
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I Can’t Recommend This
I like LinkedIn. I’ve used it for many years, well before the term “social media” came into vogue, and value what it does well: keeping me abreast of the career changes within my professional network....
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Small Talk
I love “small world” stories. I love wandering into an event and discovering that someone in the room went to my elementary school, or likes the same movies, or knows someone I know. I like that...
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Ubi Nihil Est Facil
Back in the day, I was a software developer in a research group, fiddling with Unix and workstations and this new thing called ArpaNet. Being young and too clever by half, I decided to create a logo...
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Infectious Diseases
Many years ago, I worked with a group of software developers who were situated in a typical cube farm. One day, a woman came to work clearly not feeling well. As the morning progressed, her...
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There’s Not An App For That
I’ve been in a few CIO briefings of late that have revolved around the topic of business process management. There is little doubt that much value can be found in formally capturing, defining, and...
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Social Spackle
It’s been a social media week for some reason, with many opportunities to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of all this new stuff with lots of folks. Despite the attention that social media gets, and...
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Lifetime Impact
Early in my career, I had the great good fortune to work with a pure research team. The team had two distinct research areas: advanced digital communications and large-scale parallel processing. The...
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Being Remembered
During lunch with a friend last month, she noted that everyone dies two deaths. Intrigued, I asked her to explain. The first, she noted, was the physical death that we will all encounter. The...
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