Archive for November 2022

As I finished packing my things this morning, making sure I had everything with me I would need for the presentation I was getting ready to go give, it suddenly washed over me. The hot, anxious, nervous, sick feeling of anticipation I always get leading up to an event or experience shrouded in uncertainty.  Speaking…

It is that time, all around us we watch as the natural world prepares for winter. We watch as the trees shed their leaves and the bees slowly move underground. We see the squirrels and bears getting fat and ready for hibernation. The bird migrating to warmer climates. We watch as the natural world begins to…

The acronym KISS was first noted as a design principle in 1960 by the US Navy for “Keep it simple, stupid.”  My first experience with the KISS principle emerged for me in college while working in the technical theatre department. Noting that most often when implementing a particularly difficult design challenge the simplest solution worked best.  In…