Om Malik recently posted a rant about how unfriendly consumer IoT is to its customers. The goal of almost all suppliers centers on sucking up as much consumer behavior as possible while preventing...

Another conglomerate sees the light. Throughout my business life, I have witnessed corporate hubris build huge incomes and stock prices—for a while. Then the inevitable payment came, and the house of...

There are people (churches, denominations) who claim Wesleyan, yet only acknowledge half of John Wesley’s teaching. Again, there are people (churches, denominations) who claim Calvinism, yet only a…

When I was young, people used a phrase about some other people, “They talk big.” Translation—these people talked about what they would do, but they actually never got around to doing anything. Cert…

Do you ever become frustrated while reading stories about Jesus? I certainly do. For almost my entire life. For example, they tell us that Jesus often went off by himself to pray. Sometimes the wri…

Something I’ve been observing. This administration is the most PR and media oriented administration we’ve had. Everything seems to be a media play. Note the lineup of big companies announcing, ahem,...

We inhabit the early days of figuring out not only which AI (machine learning, large language models, voice, etc.) we need to deploy but also how to deploy it. Both remote servers (the cloud) and...

How are people using HMI/SCADA software? Why, after all these years, do companies still need to pursue “digital transformation”?

Human-centered design. Designing human-machine interface in ways that make it easier to see what’s going on.

During a tour of the sites Louise Penny popularized in her detective novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the tour guide gave us identifying wrist bands saying What Would Gamache Do? Th…

The topic of today’s fitness newsletter was the editor’s observation of the varying goals people have written to him about fitness and nutrition. He asked, Why do you work out? Why an hour a day on…

The first step toward living a fulfilling life is to forgive yourself. Forgiving others, the next essential step, is truly impossible until we face ourselves. We just finished a week of watching se…

How often do we think we are above the law? Perhaps it’s petty rules we think do not apply to us. Perhaps it is driving faster than the speed limit or not stopping at stop signs. Perhaps getting aw…

I picked up this list from a tweet by one of my favorite modern writers, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He wrote Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, among other books. This is one of those lists you can tape…