We have an informal saying around here: Do Right and Risk the Consequences. One of our E-gineers had that as a bumper sticker awhile back, and it just seems to apply pretty universally. We all have countless opportunities to do a little something for someone else – something completely selfless and sacrificial. It seems so often we let those opportunities slip by – for a myriad of reasons, for sure. Add to that: with our abundance of technological connectedness, we’ve… [continue]
Remembering Ian Murdock
From Numb to Stumbled Mumbling I’ve been trying to figure out how to express what’s been going through my mind and heart the past several days, after the news on my old friend Ian Murdock. I just haven’t been able to put coherent thoughts or words together. But every moment that goes by, the more pressure there is to just write something. Ian didn’t live a perfect life, but he deserves more honor from me than mere silence. And I… [continue]
Yield Not to the BLOT Monster
If we’re not careful in business, we’ll submit to the “Bottom Line-Only Thinking” (BLOT) monster. Maybe this is how Scrooge got that way (maybe not – I don’t remember his backstory or Dickens’ implication for his beginnings). The BLOT monster is dark and dangerous, and its victims become contagious converts! BLOT Monster? BLOT monsters often reveal themselves this time of year – fiscal year-end to many businesses, coincidentally placed so delicately near Christmas. Have you seen one? Here’s how it happens: we… [continue]
Hour of Code 2015!
Great Ideas, (Finally) Backed By Action Take a moment and try to remember a time when you said, “That is a great idea!” but it took you a long while to finally get on board with it. Come on, take a moment now… Maybe it was parking your car in the garage. Or finally getting a house with a garage. Or finally getting the junk out of your garage so you could park your car in it. At least for… [continue]
On Launching a Website
You know, many boat launchings come with ceremony. Such as this account Two fryers and an attendant went into the vessel, and kneeling down prayed halfe an houre, and layd their hands on every mast, and other places of the vessel, and sprinkled her all over with holy water. Then they came out and hoysted a pendent to signify she was a man of war; then at once thrust her into the water. Or maybe accompanied by weighty words They… [continue]
Toy-gineering – Christmas 2013
We want to say, “We are thankful for you.” Our genuine hope is that in any given week this year, or since you’ve joined Eg, that you’ve known our gratitude for you. But, in order to truly get an idea of how this goes for us, you’re going to have to go through an exercise with me here for a moment. But there are going to be challenges (doesn’t every good exercise have its challenges?). Old-timer E-gineers, you’re going to… [continue]