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Idealism, Naivety and Child-like Faith

// April 12th, 2010 // Comments Off // Featured

I wonder often–what would happen if we’d just get out of the way? – Tim Stevens I’ve been asking this question for days, weeks, months, years. Honestly, what could/would happen? It has been a topic I’ve prayed about, studied, written and spoken about. It has rooted itself very deep in my life. So much so [...]

Production Support is Expensive

// February 18th, 2010 // Comments Off // Thunk Thursday

We’ll keep this short. I spent a year of my life building and leading production support teams in a Fortune 125 company. Trust me. Software production support is expensive. I’ll prove it in a future series, but I’m learning that an extremely small number of people understand this. That includes clients, management, vendors, even developers. [...]

Music Monday – Switchfoot

// February 15th, 2010 // Comments Off // Music Monday

So tonight I’m going out with some swell dudes to see Switchfoot play at The Pageant here in St. Louis. It’s been a while since I’ve seen Switchfoot, much less taken a good listen to their music. So, in trying to catch myself up and find something to share today, I ran across their Switchfoot [...]

Thunk Thursday – Power to the People

// February 11th, 2010 // Comments Off // Thunk Thursday

We have little power over people’s desire to succeed. The above quote is from an article I read recently on the topic of usability/interaction design. It rebuked us as designers for “dumbing down” interfaces to the lowest common denominator. And I think there are so many areas of life that need this same rebuke. Recently, [...]

Wisdom Wednesday – Mark 12:28-31

// February 10th, 2010 // Comments Off // Wisdom Wednesday

This year, one of my resolutions was to try, once again, to read through the Bible in a year. I’ve chosen the M’Cheyne One Year Reading Plan and am tracking progress using YouVersion.com‘s awesome (albeit buggy) tools. I chose this plan for several reasons including the fact that it does include every word (some plans [...]

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