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Through The Looking Glass
“Who am I? Why am I here?” – Admiral Stockdale, October 13, 1992. “Will you step into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly – children’s fable Have you ever felt so completely out of place somewhere that you swore you had to have walked through the looking glass and somehow wound up on…
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2015 Penguicon Review, Part 1: The Sales Guy Learns Something
This past weekend, Dave and I spent every waking minute at Penguicon. And not to turn this into a clickbait story headline, but something happened that I never expected – I learned a lot about myself this weekend. I realized that my world is much bigger than I ever anticipated….
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Evolution
Now that I’m taking some time to gather my thoughts beyond “Thank you” after last night’s event at the BlackFinn, one of the conversations that I had is really resonating with me this morning. It’s about the evolution of our group. Where we’ve been, where we are now, and the changes that we’ve seen not…
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My Name Is Earl
Okay, so it’s not Earl, you know that…but still, karma can be a funny thing. People often ask “so what do you get out of ITintheD, anyway?” Which I can understand. We don’t take kickbacks from bars, we don’t get referral fees from recruiters when someone gets hired, we don’t charge people anything to show…
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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…
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The Silver Lining
“Every cloud has a silver lining” – various Chalk this one up to “another time when Dave forgot to practice what he preaches.” It happens more often than I care to admit. Advice that I give to people that makes perfect sense when I tell it to someone else is exactly what I forget to…
