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Self-Help Industry in a Sentence

From Shane Parrish of Brain Food. The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful. Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace? Everything that fails both tests is noise. Health begins with...

Ignition Community Conference 2025

Openings remain for this year’s Ignition Community Conference. This event usually sells out quickly, so I was amazed to learn spots remain open to attend. Of course, Inductive Automation changed venues from the Harris Center in Folsom to the Sacramento Conference...

Thinking Past and Future

Some of us cannot move our thoughts beyond what happened, could have happened, or should have happened in the past. Some of us dream only of the future, relationships to come, jobs and wealth we could acquire, places to visit. Seth Godin has pointed out, “The best...

Fitness Isn’t Punishment

Arnold Schwarzenegger observing fitness behavior. The people who find joy in the gym are the most likely to keep showing up to the gym. Fitness is supposed to make us feel better, but many people decide to stress about it. I see the same thing on the nutrition/weight...

Podcast–Complexity is the Enemy

CEOs in a recent survey complained they were not seeing results from digital transformation. Too much complexity, dashboards too complex, information not clear, silos of data. Maybe we're looking at the wrong part of the problem. Maybe it's not technology; it's...

What You Become

Ancient wisdom—You become what you think about. Shane Parrish writing in Brain Food, updated the thought. You become what you scroll. Don’t be like the loser in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade about whom the Last Crusader remarked, “He chose poorly.”

Intelligence at Scale

This is part two of my reports from the Hexagon Live Global Event. I had been to one previous event for only a day. Hexagon is such a large company comprised of many parts that I had a bit of struggle understanding it all. The core Hexagon involves measurement,...

Freedom of Speech—With Responsibility

I was on a Board of Education in the 1980s. Another member and I pushed for restriction of smoking on school grounds. Another member was a purveyor of tobacco products at the wholesale level. That member brought a stack of documentation at least a foot high purporting...

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