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Do You Have a Team or Just a Bunch of Talents?

January 29, 2012
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Do You Have a Team or Just a Bunch of Talents?

As a leader or founding member of any project or startup, it is necessary to surround yourself by people talented in their areas of contribution. However, it is indispensable that everyone of them, and you, operate as a single mind capable of carrying on the CoDePPFP regardless of what life throws at you. Without...

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What Value Do Late Adopters Offer?

January 28, 2012
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What Value Do Late Adopters Offer?

Are you aware of the 700+ decisions you make daily? Are you happier when you get to choose for yourself or when others do so? When faced with choosing to join the masses and adapt a newly released product, do you jump in and just get it or do you wait? Are you an...

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Where Do Special Grown Ups Come From?

January 27, 2012
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Where Do Special Grown Ups Come From?

In physics a Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated… Last year I saw a bad Tim Robbin’s movie whose only redeeming quality was a line said by a woman to a man...

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What Success Really Looks Like…

January 26, 2012
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What Success Really Looks Like…

Are you successful? If you can define what success is, have you ever been so? Is success becoming a millionaire or getting 50,0000 followers? Or is it overcoming your weaknesses enough so you no longer focus on them? Or have you already lived most of your life and have come to define it as...

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To Our Understanding of the New Rules of Engagement!

January 24, 2012
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To Our Understanding of the New Rules of Engagement!

In the morning of a gorgeous Colorado day, a small black cat decided to adopt us and showed up at the edge of the canyon by our mountain home. I named him Leo. In no time, Leo figured out that our dogs had to obey their masters, so no way on earth would they...

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To Reaching the Top and Great Women Mentors!

January 23, 2012
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To Reaching the Top and Great Women Mentors!

If you ever hike to the top of Mount Olympus in Washington state just at the right time in the morning, you might experience the true meaning of being above the clouds. Unlike the experience from within a plane, the sense of personal and private enrichment is almost tangible there. Over the weekend, while...

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To Politicians Who Understand the Internet’s Magnificence!

January 20, 2012
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To Politicians Who Understand the Internet’s Magnificence!

Few things can overshadow the spectacular beauty of the Grand Canyon South Rim. The North Rim is one of those. From the South Rim, you enjoy the surreal beauty of the canyon at a tremendous distance and with a massive abyss separating you from the gorgeous formations. From the North Rim, your experience is...

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To Natural Beauty & Responsive Designers!

January 19, 2012
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To Natural Beauty & Responsive Designers!

There are very few places in the world that demonstrate human’s ability to create something practical out of natural beauty and make it even better than the original. Lake Powell, IMHO, is one of those places. I just finished reading Ethan Marcotte’s extraordinarily easy-to-read and useful book Responsive Web Design for the second time...

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No SOPA 4 U!

January 17, 2012
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No SOPA 4 U!

Unless something extraordinary happens before I black out this site for tomorrow’s protest, I won’t be doing my coffeetoast tomorrow morning. But I’ll do a double one today and this afternoon I’ll raise my cup (of cappuccino) in honor of all the sites that go black tomorrow in protest of SOPA. And here it...

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Angel’s Landing and Introvert Engineers!

January 17, 2012
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Angel’s Landing and Introvert Engineers!

If you have ever hiked to the top of Angel’s Landing, you would probably agree with me that it is a much, much better experience if you are alone or with someone you truly trust versus hiking it with the crowds of (inexperience) strangers that join the hike by mid morning. In the connectivity...

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