My Mission

I have struggled with technology my whole life. On one hand, I am really good at it. In engineering college, before a lot of heavy computer usage, I was completely enarmored with the HP 48 GX when I was actually able to get enough money together to be able to afford it. It came with a users manual the size of a bible, and I read every single page of it at least three times. Why? Becuase I had to know everything about it, how it works, every single in and out in case I needed to use it some day.

Thirty years later, I am not really any different. Whether it is an operating systems, piece of software, or mapping out a new business process I love getting into the details of everything I can and figuring out how it works.

This is where it becomes interesting. I love simple things too. I like to forget that technology exists at all and I would be fine sleeping in the woods under a tarp, with a blanket, and nothing more than a nice billy pot and a good knife. For the longest time I have felt that this is a reason for me to hate technology and to avoid it all costs. And yet, I have been using it to make a living for over 30 years. It has been a real struggle for me thinking that I had to live my life on one end of the extreme or the other, or else I would never be happy with my choice.

Through the difficultites of life in general, and the pressures of the full time jobs that I had I discovered that I needed to make things as streamline, effecient and meaningful as possible, so that I had time for the really important things. That is when I discovered that two of lifelong gifts do have an overlap and what I have learned, am learning and want to continue learning is something that I want to share with the rest of the world.

While I relish the idea of putting down the smartphone (or tablet, or computer) and never acknowledging its existence ever again, I do not do that because I find that it brings too much value to my life, if used in the right way.

My goal here then is to provide observations, solutions and ideas on how to use various technologies to improve your life. Whether those are systems for managing your personal life, systems for managing your professional life so that you can enjoy your personal life more, or systems and processes for your business so that you can be more effective at doing what you do best. Instead of designing business systems.