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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

We saw the announcement of an historic framework… for discussions… for a plan… for a deal… for peace with Iran this week.  Regardless of where you come down on whether it will work or not, I’d like to point out … Continue reading →

Many of you that tailgate with us know this story, but my dad recommended that I write it down before I forgot.  So here goes. When the Tailgate Box was first released, it was all white.  And sitting in the … Continue reading →

I wrote about the first tailgate box a while ago.  And yes, it has been almost a full season since I built the second one, but I still wanted to talk about the process.  I think the tailgate box is … Continue reading →