Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace  by Gordon MacKenzieSummary: Useful anecdotes about creativity and the creative process in a corporate setting. Why I liked it: Great stories and vignettes. Enjoyed the pyramids and plum tree organizational structure idea.

First ballgame, July 7, 1974Braves vs. Cubs at Wrigley Field Hank Aaron hits number 725 off a young Rick Reuschel. It would be his last home run at Wrigley. My father’s good friend, Dave Norman, from Atlanta who went with us bought me that Braves cap which I kept on…

Godspeed Eddie Van Halen. Recommend Van Halen Rising by Greg Renoff. A engaging read about the band, how they came together and took over rock and roll. Appreciated the entrepreneurial vision through the ups and downs to stardom. I never did get to see Van Halen in their prime (pre-Hagar)….

This championship did not happen overnight. More than two years and hundreds of thousands of yards in the pool were needed to climb to that level. Lessons learned during this time have helped me to this day, primarily vision and resilience. I have photo of this team tucked away in…

Original post from 2011 below. To date, gCRM has not happened. The Google G Suite Marketplace has a number of CRM players which are all capable. Some observations. Compliance First SAS70 and now SASE 16 and whatever is next have become more important to the enterprise. Not just in the…

Congratulations to Seattle Mariners legend Edgar Martinez. Enshrined in Cooperstown at the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 21, 2019. In many ways this is historic. Fans took to social media for several years to convince the Baseball Writers Association of America that Edgar was one of the…

Truly a privilege to be involved with the Burke Center for Entrepreneurship at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Hit PLAY for a fun half hour discussion.

Part hobby, part side hustle. Converting vintage Schwinn bicycles into single speed and fixed gear bicycles. Rolling history.