The 'New!' Addiction

In this day and age we are inundated with NEW! and AMAZING must have pieces of technologies. Everything from smartphones to 4K flatscreens to drones. There are times where adoption of something new seems like the right decision, but is it? [Read More]

The shortcut to nowhere.

Since last fall, I’ve been mentoring a FIRST robotics team at my kids high school. I’ve guided and watched this team design and build a robot to compete with other schools. They spent time and effort creating some CAD models, but in the end they took shortcuts during the build.... [Read More]

The illusion of grok.

I hadn’t intended this blog to be philosophical, but my first post got me thinking. What if you think you grok something you believe to be fact, but in reality it wasn’t true? Is this illusion of grok real, or can someone’s belief overshadow reality? [Read More]

Grok the grok!

Ok, so I’ve used the term grok many times in my life and in many contexts. As I started putting this blog together I had to ask myself: [Read More]