If you are new to Working from Home or attending school from home, here are few things you can avoid, in order to present yourself better, make a better experience for those on the other side of your camera, build trust, and build bonds. Bad Lighting:  Knee Jerk:  Sinking Head:  Blank Walls:  Nose Holes:  Pale […]

I’m proud to finish off decorating another meeting room at my new company, DiSTI. This room is called Spaceball One and is themed with blueprints of, and quotes about, fictional ships. We hosted a vote to pick our favorites. Can you see a familiar ship in here? #GPTW, #funculture.

Last weekend my son Asher, who is 6 and a half years old, performed his second summer business – a lemonade stand with a “twist”. Just like in his first business, we knew running a lemonade stand is all about through-traffic. In our old neighborhood, and even worse-so in our new neighborhood, the prospect of setting […]

If you are an entrepreneur or a business person who has paid attention to best sellers, you have more than likely heard of Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm, where the concept of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle was introduced. I’ve been fortunate enough to drive or be a part of a lot of exciting changes around culture, best […]

Chris and TROBO show you the basics of how to setup an Amazon Dash IoT button from scratch. We program it to send mommy and daddy text messages from TROBO. We touch on Amazon Lambda services, which the Amazon Dash uses to wirelessly make things happen. If you just want to see the fun results […]

“When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be…” – Paul McCartney If Paul had been inspired by something I call Managerial Overlap, his song would have instead sang, “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary, Jesus, God, and some of the […]

What follows is a harrowing tale of a lost email searching for its head. It is a metaphor to remind us all of the importance of constantly seeking clarity in our emails to coworkers. It was a dark, icy night in the winter of the town of Sleepy Hallway. Ichabod Crane, a regular townsman of […]

My son, Asher is now 5 and a half. We recently saw the Disney Cars 3 movie, which he loves, and we discovered a pricey deluxe set of Disney Cars cars. It was way more expensive than we would be willing to pay for. However he was persistent and kept trying to come up with […]

It’s so easy to blame your manager or management staff when things are going wrong. But if you subscribe to the belief that people are honestly trying to do a good job and that generally, they are capable of doing so, you must then ask, “What can cause a team with good management to go bad?”  When […]