There is an old adage that says “The clothes make the man.” It is somewhere up there with the thought that tall men make better leaders. I’m sure there are similar phrases for girls and women, but I missed those along the way. The rule today covers a number of things all buried in the… Continue reading Big D, little d: 8 – Cues and Clues

Both of my kids are doing online school right now. It’s really exciting as can be seen in the cat’s reaction below as it watches the little one. The next rule in our sequence is to pick a first job with a steep learning curve and lots of training (over a similar position with prestige).… Continue reading Big D, little d: 7 – Learn when you are Young

Rule 6 from Stephen A. Scharzman’s book What it Takes covers a broad range of ideas that boil down to data and its use. With school going online during this pandemic response, our world is in the midst of a fundamental shift in a whole host of areas like work space, transportation, education, food service,… Continue reading Big D, little d: 6 – Data, data, data and the Information Age

As many of you know, we had a party for my wife’s birthday and it turned out pretty well. One person said “The Best Party Ever!”, but she may have been biased. As I sat here trying to knock things off the to do list, I saw my birthday this year falls in this first… Continue reading Random 2: No party on my birthday this year

Job was busy praying for his kids when his world turned upside down. I was busy praying for my kids when I fell asleep this morning. I didn’t intend to fall asleep and be late to a meeting, but sometimes things happen to us, and other things we do to ourselves. I’ve been trying to… Continue reading Random 1: Busy Waiting

Culture, Globalism, and Entropy are big terms that bring to mind issues that are too big for simplicity. In my recent expert witness deposition, I was asked if one kind of analysis was more complex than the one central to the case. I replied that they were probably equally complex and it reminded me why… Continue reading Big D, little d: 5 – It is a System 2020 Feb 20

We had a big party Saturday and for some strange reason, the Astros were a major topic. I had this big plan to divert my conversations away to something else (I was asking people their biggest current prayer request.), but discuss the Astros we did. In one sense, it was great because it meant people… Continue reading Big D and little d: 4 – Pardon the Masses, Cultivate the Individual 2020 Feb 19

A phrase from my growing up is hindsight is 20/20. Now that it is 2020, the thing to learn is that people understand things better after they happen. It is true for the two of you and it is true for all of the rest of us. Back in 2017, the Yankees and Red Sox… Continue reading Big D, little d: 3 – Ask for Advice from those you Admire 2020 Jan 23

I know the phrase is suppose to be “… what begins with D?”, but I couldn’t find a good word that begins with D for the topic. The premise of the book’s second lesson is that you don’t get to where you want to be by just showing up. Progress takes effort and being the… Continue reading Big D, little d: 2 – What begins with…L? Learning 2019 Nov 2

Big D and Little d, I have been wondering how to proceed and came upon a possible plan, a possible format, and a passage to tie it all together. The plan was to pretend I was writing to you two only, the format was to present 25 life lessons from What It Takes by Stephen… Continue reading To Big D and little d: 1 – 25 ACTS 2019 Nov 5