Growth, Discomfort and the Marine Corps

Making small talk has been pretty easy for me lately. When someone says to me, “What’s new with you?” I say, “Well, the main news around our house is that we just sent our oldest son off to Marine Corps boot camp.” Pretty easy to have a...

Is this Mic on?

Wow, life is an exciting ride. But, time certainly flies when you are having fun and trying to do stuff that matters. The last post I wrote on this blog was nearly two and a half years ago. Yikes. That’s a lifetime on the interwebs. Over the past two years, a...

Setting Fire to the Backup Plan

A few weeks back, I wrote about my process of finding focus and commitment for my path forward. It’s been a quite a journey to learn this lesson and take my next step. The reason for this post is to share some detail about what I will be doing in 2013 and...

Creating a Workforce of Hackers

Joe and I started doing a session a year or so ago at Talent Anarchy called HackLab.  The idea behind the session was simple: to teach people how to use the basic principles of computer hacking to create innovation within their work–any kind of work....
Jason Lauritsen