What do you want to be when you grow up? We’re asked this question in elementary school, then again in middle school, high school, college, and even graduate school. Usually the answer is something we were told we should be: doctor, lawyer, astronaut — maybe some teachers are even creative…

Let me start by saying that this is a wholly unnatural experience for me. Sure, in the course of my career, I have experienced winning team and individual awards. Those experiences were nominally interesting. They typically happened at big internal events, good job former leaders. I (possibly mistakenly) never really…

We work in technology. I suppose that means we should always embrace the madness of data and information in exchanges. However, since I forever fear T-2000’s destruction of society (or your favorite brand of technology overlord — perhaps Ready Player One?), I still see humans as a critical component of…

Most of us that work in innovation want to have a safe environment for failure. Failure is inevitable when you’re wading into the waters of uncertainty. We have a culture (we as Americans) where failure is something we spend a lot of time in school working hard to avoid. Also…

It is the holiday season. For many of us that means celebration with close friends, family, coworkers, or reflection on the happenings of the past year. It is supposed to be a celebratory time, at least that’s what all of the marketing and advertisement keeps telling us. Given that this…

We recently started a couple of experiments within our own team. Since we have experience as a distributed team, these seemed to be reasonable tests to perform. This experiment is running in two locations with one of our military customers. In Florida, we have one of our members of our…

We are quite thankful for the opportunities over the past several years to continue to grow as a company. This will be my briefest article of the year as a result of the holiday week. Thankful for… This year I am thankful for being surrounded by a team of people who do…

In the past few weeks a recurring topic keeps coming up. It is something compelling from my perspective, there are millions of people who believe in the mission of our military and civilian services. Some of these missions involve interacting with exceptionally cool, expensive, secure, unique materials, technologies, and personnel…

If you never heard me say this before, I’m not a huge fan of any assumption that a decision is necessarily binary by definition. In fact, there are many false dichotomies out there to create polarizing outcomes. Instead, I would suggest that most situations have a good enough alternative, and…