Voice of the Culture
“The greatest asset of a company is its people.” – Jorge Paulo Lemann Hi Everyone, Hope you enjoyed the extra time off last week. For my part, I rented a house in the mountains, enjoyed some golf, watched a bunch of movies, and got crushed in Monopoly by my children as they decided that teaming up […]
Staying calm and taking care of yourself
“Life is 10 percent what you experience and 90 percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer Hi Everyone, I wanted to follow up on my letter from last week. I ran into Tom and his wife Cori a couple of days ago and found out he closed two more remodeling contracts! Wow, I guess […]
On the road again
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” – Babs Hoffman Hello everyone, My journey across America … I start my trip from Seattle to DC tomorrow. I’ll be heading down the coastal states and then across the lower half of the country, mostly on interstate 10, straight through Arizona, New Mexico, […]
Climbing the Bumps
What are you proud of? All things being equal it’s been a year of challenges and triumphs. I’ve watched many of you grow over the last year, myself included. I read a book when I was a kid named “The bumps are what you climb on”. The premise being that challenging yourself and enduring challenging […]
Maybe So
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein My mentor at Microsoft used to share this Chinese proverb occasionally as a reminder that things are not always as they appear to be… more to follow after you read the proverb. One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field […]
Are You a Chicken or a Pig?
When I was working at Microsoft, I organized a large project called the Geospatial Data Gateway. It was a database project with all the orthoimagery of the US Department of Agriculture coupled with all the tabular data associated with a common land unit. In one system, you could visualize a plot of land and have […]
Fearless
Hi Everyone, I hope you had a great week, I certainly had an exhilarating one. There were some big highs this week and some real lows, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I was chatting with someone about Tahzoo and they asked me, “How do you keep going and how do you have the […]