It was lime green, all text (some flashing), and included a personal shout out to everyone I knew. Yes, fifteen years ago I launched my first webpage and since then I’ve maintained an online presence.  The third iteration of my site coincided with the start of the Snowflyzone name in 2002, and I’ve stuck with it since. Through the years I’ve kept up a range of blogs. Actually, I started blogging before blogging was a word...

Congealed isn’t the right word, but I wanted to write it. I once worked at a place that was overrun with meetings. Every hour of every day was scheduled by someone for something and more often than not we barely accomplished anything. Now that I run my own show, I’ve been able to be very deliberate about my meetings. I’ve found I like consolidating them into one day. Meeting day becomes a day I look forward to, and the energy...

With the successful launch of Space X today comes the wave of privatization of space travel. Space X is making a simple delivery of meals and clothes and student science experiments to the International Space Station, but what’s coming next? As we’ve cut NASA’s budget to peanuts we’ve (unwittingly?) stopped inspiring students to study sciences. Space used to be such a magnificent quest for our country. A Space Camp alum...

My friend @scaevolae recently suggested introducing the word gress into the language of work. To gress is to chug along, slog through, spin wheels, feel like you’re spending all of your time working but without directionality. Add in the prefixes pro or re and you have a vector that indicates something is happening, but gressing on its own is without movement. Now that I’ve been working for myself for about six months I notice my...