Month: August 2015

  • Don’t Be That Guy – More Human Than Human

    Don’t Be That Guy – More Human Than Human

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “We’re not computers, Sebastian.  We’re physical.” – Roy Batty, Blade Runner “I’m not in the business…I am the business.” – Rachael, Blade Runner Why is it sooooo hard for some folks to get…

  • The Path

    The Path

    “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao-tsu, Chinese philosopher, about three thousand years ago “The world doesn’t owe you an MTV cribs lifestyle” – me, a little over two years ago Can you imagine what would happen if someone blindfolded you, gave you no tools, no matches, no flashlight, no anything…then…

  • Lots of Fun Guests In-Studio Tonight, Pink Slip Party Coming and More for 8/31/2015

    Lots of Fun Guests In-Studio Tonight, Pink Slip Party Coming and More for 8/31/2015

    We’ve got a packed studio for episode 107 of our weekly live podcast broadcast, (has anyone coined the term “prodcast” yet?) our Pink Slip Party is just a couple weeks away, we’ve got blog entries, updated information for sponsors, we’re probably going to start migrating listeners to the Podcast Detroit app so you might want…

  • 2015 Penguicon Review, Part 2: The Geek Goes Home

    2015 Penguicon Review, Part 2: The Geek Goes Home

    As Bob noted in his point of view in Part One of our recap, he and I spent this past weekend at something called Penguicon.  Bob had his eyes opened to a whole new world that he was completely unaware even existed, but that doesn’t mean that I took everything in stride.  Far from it,…

  • Episode 106: VizBe Vision Boards, TEKSystems

    Episode 106: VizBe Vision Boards, TEKSystems

    For the first time since we moved to the new studio, we weren’t completely overbooked and insanely packed with guests last night, which was a nice change of pace and allowed us to have some great conversations with Natalia from VizBe and Alexas from TEKSystems…

  • How Not To Suck At Networking

    How Not To Suck At Networking

    “See this?  Our website?  I just want it to suck less.  Can you make it suck less?  I have a big bag of money for someone that can make it suck less for me. ” – a CTO who shall remain nameless, during a business meeting circa 1999 We’ve decided to try something a little different.  Our…