Archive for October, 2008

What I Learned at Highlight Midwest #hm1 »

Here is my “decompression” post from Highlight Midwest, held this week in Kansas City.
First and foremost, there are a lot of very neat things being done in Iowa and the surrounding states.  There is absolutely no reason why the company I work for can’t compete with the major web production studios in California, New York, [...]

What’s Holding You Back? »

I’ve had the idea for a new business / hobby for a while now.   It was something I was somewhat involved in when I lived in Los Angeles, and I even wrote a book about it.  Sounds like the perfect niche, right?
Almost.
See, like in so many businesses and niches, there are people always out to [...]

A State of Mind »

I first was introduced to the poem “State of Mind” when I attended “Leadership 2000″ at the YMCA Camp in Boone, Iowa run by Dr. Ray Pugh.    As part of the session, we were given a spiral-bound book written by Dr. Pugh (that I have sadly lost over the years) that contained the poem.   I [...]