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Who Do You Want to Be

Who Do You Want to Be

There are many questions that you can ask yourself to help frame the person you want to grow into. These questions can be standard ones like “Where do you see yourself in 5 year...

Presentation Tips

Presentation Tips

I recently had the privilege of having Montana Von Fliss give me some pointers on a talk I delivered to a client. She was there in another capacity, but never one to let an oppo...

Asking for Help

Asking for Help

When asking for help I always try to think about whether the person who I am asking can answer my question off the top of their head or if it’s something that will require them ...

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China Hijacking the Internet

(image source Demchak)

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

By default iMovie doesn’t recognize AirPods as a recording device. This probably has to do with Bluetooth latency or quality, etc. but if you want to force iMovie into using the...

Active Decisions

Active Decisions

Decisions will be made — by you, or for you.

Create/Publish Scripts

Create/Publish Scripts

In order to make creating and publishing quicker and easier I created a couple of little shell scripts to help me along my way. I have a hard time remembering all the little swi...

Specialize or Do Not Specialize

Specialize or Do Not Specialize

In my industry I’ve found that you can be successful by committing to being a specialist or by committing not to specialize. People stumble, struggle, fail, or get burned out wh...

Exactis Breach

Exactis Breach

I recently learned about a new Exactis data breach. No passwords were compromised, but much of the information that would be used in a social engineering or phishing campaign wa...

Optimizing Images

Optimizing Images

I started down a little bit of a rabbit hole when I wanted to optimize and scale the images on my site. As you can see there are a lot rather large images on my site, which I li...