Embrace the Chaos

My 4 year old daughter has a life threatening egg and nut allergy.  We discovered it when she was about 10 months old when we gave her a piece of egg to eat.  She broke out in a horrible rash, vomited, turned blue and passed out. I didn’t know if she was alive in the [...]

One Hundred Billion Dollars just rolls off the tongue. With the pending IPO of Facebook, people throw out millions and billions like its no big deal. We read and hear about it in entrepreneurial magazines, in the elevator, in the movies and of course when we hear politicians refer to the public debt of our [...]

My 6-year-old daughter came into my basement office today and started goofing around while I was really focused on finishing something important. I just needed a few more minutes so to keep her occupied, I asked her to keep herself busy by writing whatever she wanted on the board behind my desk. After a few [...]

I went to bed about 11pm the other night and couldn’t sleep.  11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30!…I kept looking at the clock and given that my alarm clock was set for the usual 5:45am, I was getting more anxious as time went on.  “Come on Bob – get to sleep.  Come on you can do it”, [...]