Category: Article

  • Lessons From A Child’s Toy 2: Learn Harder

    Lessons From A Child’s Toy 2: Learn Harder

    I’ve already done “electric boogaloo”, so yes, it had to be that title. Almost three years ago now, as we were coming up on our first Pink Slip Party, I wrote “Lessons From a Child’s Toy” about some lessons I learned one bleary-eyed morning during a hazardous encounter between my feet and some colorful wooden blocks. At…

  • Live Broadcast Tonight with Quantum and Motor City Geek, Event Thursday Night and More for 4/13/2015

    Live Broadcast Tonight with Quantum and Motor City Geek, Event Thursday Night and More for 4/13/2015

    Episode 87 of our weekly live broadcast happens tonight and we’ve got our casual networking social happening on Thursday, so it’s going to be a pretty packed week.  And we just got wrapped up with an insanely packed weekend at a conference downtown, so there’s plenty to talk about tonight. And of course we’ve got…

  • Don’t be “That Guy”

    Don’t be “That Guy”

    So this being the first blog entry, I had to share my favorite story. Amazingly enough, when I share this story in public, at an event, or at a lunch, everyone knows exactly who I am talking about. Pretty scary the rounds he must have made. A few years back, I am at a smaller…

  • Slow Rolls and 5Ks and Protests, Oh My!

    Slow Rolls and 5Ks and Protests, Oh My!

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. Let me start by saying I love being in and around Detroit.  I do.  I love hanging around downtown.  I love it when we do our events downtown and people show up, especially…

  • Live Broadcast Tonight, Event Next Week and More for 4/6/2015

    Live Broadcast Tonight, Event Next Week and More for 4/6/2015

    Yeah, yeah, yeah…”Opening Day”! While you’re semi-conscious on the couch tonight, we’ll be live from 9pm to 11pm with episode 86 of our weekly broadcast with some fun guests, good conversations, and it ought to be entertaining after the day’s events. We’ve also got some blog entries for you, we’ve got an event coming up next…

  • Don’t Be That Guy: The Free Beer Isn’t Cold Enough

    Don’t Be That Guy: The Free Beer Isn’t Cold Enough

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “Gee, we’re really sorry the free beer isn’t cold enough” – Us, unfortunately far too regularly Let’s lay some groundwork here. The three of us that run this group have jobs, lives, families,…