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About Josh Rutstein

I am an entrepreneur leader who loves building creative new things. Father of 2 very special girls, husband, and passionate American. I ski/snowboard whenever possible and follow a 20x mentality for exercise. I also play golf and paraglide. Many see me as a die hard New England Patriots fan, season ticket holder and tailgater. Everyday I wake up wanting to make this world a better place, someday I hope to actually succeed.

Trumping Trump

It seems so easy to me, this is how I would do it… Chuck Todd: Welcome to Meet the Press Mr. Rutstein Me: Thanks Chuck. Glad to be here CT: Before we get started, how goes it on the campaign … Continue reading

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Stay Young

Do we act like a bunch of  adolescent kids at tailgate?  Yes.  Is that bad?  I don’t think so. People do all sorts of things in life to stay and feel young.  Some people use pharmaceuticals, some get surgery, some … Continue reading

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Taylor’s Title IX

Tomorrow my older daughter, my first born, goes under the knife to repair a torn LCL, evaluate bone fragments from her knee cap and check her ACL. All damaged about 2 weeks ago in a high school soccer game. Tay … Continue reading

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Scaled Volunteering

Last week as part of the Fidelity Cares group, I led a team that built a greenhouse at the Elm Street Middle school in Nashua  It was a pretty intense day.  It felt really good to give back to the … Continue reading

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“The Fruit of the Poor Lemon is Impossible to Eat”

The other day a good friend of mine and I were discussing the general notion of ‘making lemonade from lemons’  He framed the counter-point argument in a metaphor that I thought was really insightful. In general, I have never been happy about my … Continue reading

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Alto Training

Every time that there is a police shooting or some instance where a renegade cop acts inappropriately, we hear the call for “more training.”  I find this whole notion spectacularly irresponsible.  These are people who have grown up racist or … Continue reading

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Capability Based Design

I wrote this paper at work to galvanize thoughts around ways to do my job that make systems development more efficient.  Back office big-data projects are different from customer facing UX driven ‘products’ and so we should think about the … Continue reading

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Wheelbarrow Skills

I’ve been meaning to rant about this one for a while.  I like to say that “decaf” is not “coffee”.  At the same time, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow is not a “wheelbarrow”. Haley and the girls at the barn love them, … Continue reading

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School Daze

Yesterday Megan and I were able to attend an end-of-year school ceremony where Haley received an academic award for having the third highest aggregate grade on her team.  A team is 4 classes or about 90 students. The funny part … Continue reading

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Lost in Libertarianism

Whenever I listen to Rand or Ron Paul, I usually just laugh them off as so outrageous that they are not a threat to the political process.  They are the sum of the remainder of an unbalanced political equation, as … Continue reading

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