Affinity to Ex-{employer}
corpminion I have seen many people use terms like ‘ex-Amazon’, ‘ex-Google’ in their LinkedIn title. I have also come across people who will say ‘When I was in company X, we…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This is a longer post than my usual one’s. I wrote this piece when I was accountable for SEO for one of the eCommerce retailers in the area. Most of…
Program Management – Paper Pusher or Force Multiplier?
My experience and observation on Program Management is from the Tech industry- however, I believe the same concepts apply in other industries as well, just that the subject matter expertise…
Youth Baseball – Making the most of it
My son plays youth baseball and I watch all his games and we always watch a few MLB games every season (Go Mariners!!). Many people have told me that Baseball…
Crypto Thesis
The hype and the crypto bull market of 2021 is in the rear view mirror. I have aped into many crypto hypes and lost some money. My experience with dabbling…
College App Decisioning
One of my kids is a senior in HS and is going through the college application and decision process. I wanted to provide a high level summary of the criteria…
Longer term thoughts on layoffs and mindset
Layoffs in Tech are grabbing headlines every week. While the ups and downs of an economic cycle is expected, we have not had the current magnitude of layoffs since the…
Career Advise Credibility
Who do people listen to for career advise? While experience plays a role and people tend to learn from mistakes, one of the trends I noticed is experienced people providing…
Is Crypto Money?
To answer this before, we should first examine ‘What is Money and it’s function’. A simple Google search reveals that the function of money is to act as a medium…
Fraud Detection – Methods and Capabilities
I have been in fraud detection and mitigation for the last decade. The term fraud is used in many ways and sometimes used interchangeably with Abuse. To disambiguate the 2,…