Lessons from Little League: Dealing with Umps & Working With What You’re Given
Little League – like business and life – is imperfect. Umps in our home league are mostly volunteer umps. Some of the umps have inconsistent strike zones. The good ones have consistent strike zones and of course the best ones have consistent and tight reasonable strike zones. Bad umps are the toughest because hitters can’t […]
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Lessons from Little League: Learning from Mistakes
A few weeks ago, I wrote my first lessons from little league post on motivation and then my second post on building a team. As I previously mentioned, my life seems to be increasingly immersed in baseball. While the daily exercises of work and life never slow down, as spring rolls around I somehow figure out […]
Lessons from Little League: Building a Team
After my writing my last post on Lessons from Little League, I happen to catch a similar post on Roger Ehrenberg’s blog. Clearly he and I are both so immersed in baseball during the season that we tend to relate everything to baseball and baseball to everything around us. Like Roger, I’ve gained a tremendous […]
This Week in Sensors
I’m not a big Disney fan. We took our three boys to the Magic Kingdom for a single day last year and it was a complete #failure. They haven’t been indoctrinated into the subculture. Any while my kids showed no interest in “meeting” the characters I recognize that is a bit thing for many kids. […]
May 2013 Travel Log
Extremely limited travel outside of DC during May: 1 trip 3 airports (DCA, ALB, PHL) 3 flight segments 649 total miles 1 night in a hotel
The Distracted Mind
I’ve been meaning to write about these studies for several days – but I keep getting distracted. Read more about the impact of technology and distraction here and here.
Is Monetizing Content Getting Easier or More Difficult?
Is it getting easier or more difficult to monetize content? Conflicting signs abound. For the first time ever, traditional paid TV services experienced a net industry-wide subscriber loss over a four quarter period. For the 12 months ending March 31, 2013, the 13 biggest U.S. cable, satellite and telco TV providers lost roughly 80,000 subscribers. […]
Is Crowdfunding the Future of Curation for Local Events and other Programming Decisions?
The Smithsonian launched their first major crowdfunding campaign to support it’s first-ever exhibition on the yogic art. Crowdfunding is in many ways simply a way of pre-selling an offering. You can gauge interest before bring a product or service to market. You can go direct to the consumer and avoid being handicapped by lack of distribution. Moving forward I […]
Thoughts this Memorial Day
For the last seven years, we’ve had a tradition on the Sunday evening before Memorial Day. We start at the Tidal Basin and walk the monuments in DC. We first pass the WWII Memorial, then Vietnam, the Lincoln Memorial, circling through the Korean War Memorial, FDR and closing our walk at the Jefferson on the […]
