Artificial Cheese

Travelling through airports and subways over the past year or so has given me exposure to a new state of people’s time and behavior. I like to call that state “isolated public idleness”. Its that state that people are in while waiting for a plane or standing around for a train. Its […]

Following up on the wild success of my other blog series ‘Sunday Night Showdown’ and ‘So I Was Wrong’, which I haven’t written in months, I decided to start a new one. Mining Minds will analyze people’s seemingly unpredictable behaviors and reactions. Examples include why people get mad at seemingly irrelevant things, or […]

Portable digital media has got the business men and money makers trippin’. They see a huge demand for MP3s and videos, and in trying to satisfy that demand they realize that the product is uncontrollable. Well known and proven methods of manufacturing and distribution are inapplicable to products that are not manifested physically. […]

For the first two years of my professional career, I worked at the State of New Jersey as a software developer.  When I was hired, I wasn’t much of a professional.  I lacked skills, experience, and above all, confidence.  The hire came after a demoralizing eight month job hunt.  The only thing that I had going […]

When I started working in a team environment I realized that every decision a person makes has a cascading or rippling effect on the people around them, especially when the decision has to do with scheduling.  Since then I have been very mindful of people’s schedules and have made sure that they have been mindful […]