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In the TED talk The four-letter code to selling anything Derek Thompson explains …

I once heard that the way you can tell if something is actually funny is that it causes you to laugh out loud even when you are by yourself. It is much easier to laugh at something when surrounded by …

Today is my daughter’s last official day at school - they have a party for about an hour tomorrow so that doesn’t count.

Part of my current role is prototyping new features and algorithms to determine if and how they will work. It’s nice to do some hands on coding still.

Some times expectations are met, or exceeded, and sometimes they fail to be met.

I am a lark.

In the book Time Wise by Amantha Imber she discusses the three main types of people and their alertness through various times …

Adding an alert or alarm for a situation you need to monitor should be a good thing but sometimes, depending on how it is done, it can actually make things worse or at a minimum not work as expected.

Should all learning require an action?

I love to learn - I guess you might have worked that out from this blog. I spend a lot of my spare time reading books, listening to podcasts or watching videos.

I have a fear of failure … to an extent. I guess I am a little risk averse.

Life is made up of stories.

Emmy Sobieski mentions this in her interview for Stanford’s eCorner podcast: