Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 7th, 2010
- Wahoo! just given 2 tix for this Friday night's bobcats vs lakers game! Suite seats!Having a contest for the most creative reason 2 join me! #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 28th, 2010
- Parent alert-I just learned that our ps3 auto connects to hulu.com R rated shows! Thankfully our home network block it! #
- Fun to stimulate the Kingdom of God and the Greenville economy all at the same time! #
- Open up facebook access to 5000 people to whom you have a connection and watch out for all the emails! #
- 15 computer science students + five guys & fries = 1 programmig contest trip! #
- Let the brain kicking begin! Programming contest judges huddle together before the games begin. http://yfrog.com/1evhnrj #
- @joefeser I decided to help avoid this crisis! We brokeground this week on the first of 5 duplex homes.
in reply to joefeser # - @joefeser u need a break! Go write some code. I am here at mercer with 15 of my cs students to kick brain! in reply to joefeser #
- @srgothard programming contest w/15 of my students @ mercer today. God is good! Learning lots.Challenging them 2 trust God & do their best. in reply to srgothard #
- @JakeWHayes programming contest w/15 of my students @ mercer today. God is good! Learning lots.Challenging them 2 trust God & do their best. in reply to JakeWHayes #
- @BiltmoreEstate I was most impressed to learn how many books gwv read each month! I must read more. Great inspiration at your place. Thx! in reply to BiltmoreEstate #
- @maconrescue very impressed with your campus display and your mission stmt. Visiting from Greenville sc. Keep up the good work! #
- BJU computer science students came in 2nd place at mercer programmig contest! 2nd to Georgia tech but ahead of 4 other GT teams! #
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Taking care of Parents-who’s in charge?
While my 15 computer science students compete in a gruling head-to-head programming contest here at Mercer University, I came across an interesting book – The Contemporary American Family. What makes it interesting is the publish date – 1934 with an update in 1947. Here is the definition they give for family from the 1930 census – a group of persons related either by blood or by marriage or by adoption, who live together as one household usually sharing the same table.
Here is a statement from the book that caught my attention as I consider my God given responsiblity to my mother. “During the last decade there has been a marked drift from the former American ideal of self-responsibility and a greater dependence upon the state, especially in the attitude of children toward their aged parents. The disposition to look toward the state for security has also lessened emphasis on thrift, formerly in America a necessary and much emphasized domestic virtue.”
Wow, that reveals 2 dangerous results of big government – ignoring our God given responsibility to take care of our parents in their later years and the need to spend wisely and to save money. The two are tightly related. If we don’t spend wisely and save but rather look to big government to take care of us then we will not have the means necessary to take care of our parents and will of course look to big government to do so. This is wrong! We must teach our children to save and be industrious. Our future depends on it!
I trust we will return our hearts to the Bible regarding our family. Here is the very clear charge from 1 Timothy 5 to children to take responsibility of caring for parents.
Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 21st, 2010
- Now this beats watching NBA in HD man! Bobcats courtside bball! http://yfrog.com/37cnvcj #
- I just blue screened windows 7 – man I am good at breaking bit things! #
- Nothing sweeter than surprising my wife w/terrace seats @ bobcats vs cavs game w/her very own twin sis from Ohio! http://yfrog.com/3loprsj #
- Just another day for the twins at Biltmore house – their favorite American hangout. http://yfrog.com/2ecq3wj #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 14th, 2010
- Unbelievable! My kids don't know The Who! They are in for a huge cultural exposure at the half! #
- @joefeser how did u get 10k tweets? in reply to joefeser #
- Wow another snow storm hits Harrisburg PA. 30"+ I wonder if they will rent me and @drundle a snowmobile this weekend! #
- Winter Olympics in HD – wow! #
- Gross! Who let the rag muffin doll sing at the Olympics? #
- Ok now for plan B #
- What % of USA Olympians are home schooled? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 7th, 2010
- Obama said he ran "to get the hard things done". Guess we just have different views of what those things should be! #
- @joefeser good info. Thanks Joe! Using tier seems confusing but you have educated me. in reply to joefeser #
- Just watched a crock take down a wildabeast in slow mo! Makes me anxious to take on the competition! #
- Education-the only product we buy & are happy when we don't get all that we paid for. Just ask a student whose class just got cancelled! #
- One of the biggest weekends in the history of @worthwhile! Launching the next generation of our company software – it runs our world! #
- Capitalist says "u scratch my back & I'll scratch yours". Socialist says "u scratch my back or I'll break yours". #
- Playing the board game of catan with the Arthurs is like family feud on steroids! #
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The Business of Computational Thinking
We (my computer science education world) are creating a new course for all of our liberal arts students to take that is intended to teach them what computation thinking is, why they should know it, and how they will use it. For more details on this, I refer you to
- Computational Thinking – The Liberal Arts Education Challenge of the 21st Century?
- Computational Thinking – What is it? How will we teach it?
- KCEA ‘09 Computational Thinking Workshop
I just came across a current example of how I applied CT skills to solve an immediate problem. I think it will help demonstrate what CT skills are and how they apply to our everyday life. Here’s the background on the problem I faced.
I enjoy competition. As a kid I loved playing Monopoly, Risk, Life, Stratgo. I can remember Risk games with guys in my neighborhood which would go on for days. It was a blast. The thrill of victory. Leaning how to deal with defeat. Working harder next time to avoid it! 
The other day I was watching one of these “Amazing Planet” shows where the focus was on animals of prey. They showed a huge crock laying a river as a heard of wildebeests ran threw. Then suddenly the crock lunges up and locks his massive jaws down on the leg of an ususpecting wildebeests. The commentator said “And the crock never lets go”. I got thinking about that as it relates to my bit business ventures. I like to lock onto a problem and never let go until the problem is no more. We’ll part of my education world allows me to track a select group of computer science students to intercollegiate programming contests. Part of this process involves creating a new problem set for each competition. The challenge of the problem set, a job for the judges, is to come up with just the right mix of problems that will
- all be solved by at least one team
- not all be solved by all teams
- allow every team to solve at least one
- keep the contestants problem solving for the entire length of the contest, usually 5 hours
Here are the pieces needed for each problem, usually 7-10 problems per contest
- a concise written description of the problem w/o ambiguities (perhaps the toughest part)
- sample test data with expected results to show an example, yet not give away all the potential “tricks”
- a solution that solves the problem correctly for all possible valid input data
- test data for the judges to use to test the student solutions – here’s where you try and catch the unexpected
- expected results for the test data
So here I am working on my problem, the details of which must remain fairly vague for this blog since the contest is still a few weekends away, and I need to come up with some test data. The problem I created involves roads, Starbucks and distances. I wanted to have several thousand data points in the test. Here are the steps I followed to create the test data
- using google maps I determined the actual distance between the 2 locations (part of the problem)
- using google search engine I obtained actual street names, about 2800
- using Excel I loaded the street names
- the rest of the steps (3) involved using Excel to combine the street names with some other numeric data, the details of which I must keep secret for now
- finally I exported the data out of Excel into the test file needed for the contest
In all I spent about 10 minutes creating a test file of 2800 records that will be used in the competition. None of this required any “computer programming”. But all of it required using existing software to solve my problem. This is an example of what computational thinking is and how it will impact everyone’s life as they live and work in an increasingly computer technologically filled world in which problem solving advances to a higher level as people learn how to combine their creative minds with the power of computational processes. This is computation thinking!
I would also argue that I was “programming”. Of course not in the traditional sense of writing lines of code in some cryptic, non human, language. What is programming? It is communicating to the computer using language it understands in an effort to solve a problem. I was program. I was telling my computer how to use google search, google maps, and excel to solve a problem. This is programming. Using abstractions to solve higher level problems. Man this bit building is fun!!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 31st, 2010
- Christ followers are stewards of God's amazing grace! #
- Christ followers are stewards of God's amazing grace! #
- I have learned, by mistake, how to torture students-place assignment due dates in 2 places with differing info.Ouch!Gotta love the Internet! #
- CS2-STL strings vs c-strings in c++. Where oh where does my little string end? #
- Listening to a pipe organ performance of Marcel Dupre's Symphonie-Passion, Opus 23 played on a 2900 pipe organ. Yep. Friends! #
- Friends don't let friends attend pipe organ concerts! #
- Do wah diddy man! #
- CS2-string streaming is the sweetest way to parse! Gotta love bit building! Who doesn't need more intelligent software?Hug yer local geek! #
- Software has the power to make our lives sweeeet or miserable! Found setting in QuickBooks to list reports by employee lastname! Sweeeeeet! #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 24th, 2010
- I know not why God’s wondrous grace to me He hath made known. Nor how believing in His Word Wrought peace within my heart. #
- 1 person gives u feedback. What do 2 or more people give u? Feedbacks? #
- OS class-most complex of all manmade systems;generality has its price in specificity;time&space multiplexing;resource sharing & isolation #
- CS2-discussed benefits of unit testing in Bit Building-expect the worst and prepare for it. Think about testing before you write any code. #
- OS-time mutiplexing CPU & space multiplexing RAM means every process owns its own abstract machine. Sweeeeet design! #
- Pistons over Celtics in the Palace! Sorry I wasn't there to savor the moment! Bingo bango! #
- 1 thing 4 sure that's come out of banking mess-loan process is now an interrogation, regardless of credit score!Watch out 4 water boarding! #
- Want bug free software? Insist on lots and lots of unit tests. #
- Just signed the paper work 2 begin a refinance on my primary residence.17 signatures!Can't wait 2c how many times it will b @ the closing! #
- Bobcats just tied magic for overtime after coming from 16 behind! And I wanted to go to this game!!!! Go cats! #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 17th, 2010
- Ludwig gets off w/o jail time. Money buys injustice (temporarily) again. Another sign of a broken world. #
- Life is an amazing demonstration of God's amazing grace. Psalm 90 #
- Wahoo!It's official.BJU sending out our 1st science & technology team next fall to recruit more bit builder wanna be's! I am super pumped! #
- It is true-my youngest child is driving himself, by himself,2 school in the morning 4 the very 1st time! looking 4 a great guardian angel! #
- Just heard a 10 harp ensemble for first time in my life – wow the amazing creativity our Creator has built into his creation! (Bju opening) #
- @bgodwin technological magic! in reply to bgodwin #
- @joefeser but certainly not tweeting/texting at the same time! in reply to joefeser #
- Day 1 in OS class: role of OS to provide efficient abstractions 4 bit builders.Dealing with multicore-what r the issues.Stay tuned 4 more. #
- Why can't health care places give me a form with all my information already on it and let me change as needed? #
- Great 1st class with my freshman bit builders. Discussed what makes software worthwhile! Http://wurl.ws/qjuu #
- Wahoo! Bobcats beat spurs in charlotte for first time in franchise history. Held them to 74 points. Spurs average is over 100. Wahoo!!! #
- Job 42-God blessed Job when he prayed 4 his friends.Friends can b a great gift from God.Pray 4 em daily. Thankful 4 friends God has given me #
- @foxandfriends-nice to hear sanity from huckabee-Haiti happened because we live in a broken world! Spot on mike! #
- Due to high volume it may take up to 48 hours before your donation is posted to your mobile account.-why do humans desire 2 help? Evolution? #
- Did I loan my GPS to u? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 10th, 2010
- There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. – a most encouraging promise from God! #
- @foxandfriends the underwear bomber should be treated as a war criminal. This is war. Anyone not sure of this needs to watch 24! #
- Bobcats vs Bulls. Equal records. Should be a great match up! #
- Bobcats 113 Bulls 108 #
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2009 Worthwhile Year in Review
Posted by admin in Worthwhile on January 5th, 2010
For the most part I prefer looking forward as I like the view better. However a new year gives a brief opportunity to look back and reflect on the events of the past year. For a Christian, it gives an opportunity to count blessings and see how God led throughout the year. I have made it part of my family tradition to do this for each my children. I do it at this time for my company, Worthwhile.
New employees
- Mike McCurdy
- Kirsten Dietz
- Alex Woehr
Employee Role change
- Brandon became a full time member of the web strategist team
Engagements announced
- David Ruse
- Brandon
- Jessica & Jordan
Worthwhile Babies
- Rackley Baby (Kami)
- Rundle Baby (Claire)
Increasing Worth Awards
- Christopher
- Matt
- Louisa
- Alex
- Chris
House purchases
- Louisa
Memorable Company Events
- Charlotte Bobcats game
- Lake Day
- App Day
- More office space
- Ping pong
- WII Fit
- SEO conference for Leslie
- Ministry summit
- Getting WMUU back
- Major progress on WANG
- Record income and expense, proving the old business phrase it takes money to make money!
- Disk storage upgrade
- AT&T U-verse for office
- Monday morning project meetings
- More virtualization
- Moved all servers onto our own rack
- Cheesecake Day
- IRA matching
- Chicken minis a big hit
- Accumen deal
- RBC visit
- Sponsored GSATC
- Sponsored NextStart, an investment group designed to help grow new high tech companies in the Greenville area
- First Georgia Tech intern
Worthwhile Stats (for those who like numbers)
- 499 paychecks
- 2223 invoices produced
- 1118 credit card purchases
- 259 financial transactions with GoDaddy – top vendor defined by number of financial transactions
- 56 put Google in a distant 2nd place for the most number of financial transactions
- 745 checks written
- 22,890 hours clocked in WebClock (33,164 hours paid – includes non hourly work)
- 27 employees clocked time in WebClock
- $22,385 of employee money deposited into retirement accounts
- $18,508 contributed by company into employee retirement accounts
- $166,240 of employee earned money withheld for federal and state taxes – God bless America!!! please!!!!!!
- 53 dependents claimed
- 192 hours of company sick time (to keep from sharing the illness)
- 581 vacation hours (to keep sanity in the workplace)
- 312 holiday hours (the American way)
- 145,315,900,000 bits of customer information served from our Greenville facility
- 6.4 TB of customer information stored on our Greenville network
- 3,468,960 non-spam emails successfully delivered
- 41,627,520 spam emails successfully blocked
Amazing all that can be accomplished when a small group of people choose to ban together for a common purpose! Now we look forward with the confidence of past success to a 2010 of unlimited opportunities!! Happy New Year Worthwhile Team.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 3rd, 2010
- @joefeser you are a wonderful son! in reply to joefeser #
- Good bye Mile High. Here we come Motor City. #
- My boys just discovered a new high tech cat torture – chase the laser light! #
- Traveling with children old enough to drive – does it get any better? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 27th, 2009
- Chrysler employees who do not a Chrysler r forbidden from parking in the front lots. I think any Worthwhile employee not using wurl.ws ….. #
- Oops, left out the word DRIVE in that last tweet! #
- Up up and away. Good bye motor city hello mile high in the sky town! #
- @rundle good idea! I will pass it on to mr fiat! in reply to rundle #
- Apple has 1 of the most arrogant technical support lines of all!Cannot get mac 2 connect w/my MobileMe.Chat guy tells me I have a bad disk! #
- Back on the slopes of the amazing Rockies! I love the combo of snow & gravity! http://yfrog.com/33pyxkj #
- @daveruse can u fix the problem they cannot?My mac will not login to MobileMe.Works fine from browser. Need to sync.Ready 2 switch 2 google! #
- U can tell ones who have drunk the apple coolaid!They see&hear&speak no evil of apple.Google is the only company left that dono evil. #
- Dreams for a white Christmas ALWAYS come true in Colorado Rockies! Merry Christmas from 25 below! http://yfrog.com/4fwttuj #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 20th, 2009
- Teaching college students is the greatest job in the world. I love my job! I get paid to do this? Plz don't wake me up!! #
- Great time last night with 500 Answers in Genesis staff & family at The Farm down by the Ohio River. Big interview today 4 1 of my students #
- Got thru NC/TN mountains last nite b4 the snow! On to Creation Museum's Bethlehem’s Blessings & Christmas Star presentations with my family. #
- Beginning 2 c how they try 2 make death look better-they start removing all the things u like from the menu!No fries on the low carb menu! #
- Dispelling false religious traditions in light of biblical truth-the clear&distinct msg of answers in genesis. http://yfrog.com/4fuebj #
- Solution to global warming-shutdown airports out of Copenhagen! #
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Happy 17th Birthday Joseph
Thinking back over the past 17 years brings great joy to your Mother and me. Having a birthday the week of Christmas has meant you never really know where we will be celebrating your birthday! Well here we are on our journey to another family ski trip to the Colorado Rockies. Here are a few memories to help you remember the days of your youth as King Solomon urges in Ecclesiastes 12 – Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth.
Happy Birthday Joseph Daniels Wooster!
famous BJES field day with good friend Ben
loves his big sis Sara
friends for life!
he has always had a gun – ask him what he got for Christmas this year!
grand Tetons 2002
diamond head Hawaii
king of the rock – first day of school 200?
first day of school traditional photo
ski trip in the Rockies
Clearwater Beach Florida – do these boys need a tan or what!
blessed with great teachers at BJES like Miss Pegram!
ask Joseph to tell you about this memorable day in the Wooster family history book!
loves those guns
lovin my son up in Nova Scotia – forest glen bible camp
cedar point with nathaniel
creation musuem – our favorite stop on the way to anywhere!
Worthwhile Investment for Year End Giving
Investing is something you put something in on one end expecting or hoping to take more out on the other end. We invest time, energy, and money. We look for things of value that we think will be worthwhile investments – ones that will give us the greatest amount of return.
For those who are Christian, followers of Christ, believers in the Bible as their sole book of authority for living, who believe the present world is divided into light and dark, righteousness as unrighteousness, I would like to make a strong recommendation of a place for you to consider making a worthwhile year end investment.
Answers in Genesis is a ministry whose primary focus is best summarized with a quotation from the Apostle Paul in second Corinthians 10 and verse five. “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ”. I know of no ministry which more strongly demonstrates this verse in all that they do. The resources they produce, the strong message on biblical authority their founder clearly proclaims, the high tech Creation Museum they run, even the Christmas program that is teaching folks to put aside all the religious and cultural traditions which have clouded the message of the Gospel and read true message of Christmas as accurately recorded in the Bible. My family and I were blessed last night to experience Bethlehem Blessings at the Creation Museum. There we saw a planetarium show about the Christmas star, which clearly seeks to turn our thoughts to study astronomy in the light of Scripture to insure our interpretations, don’t contradicted the truth found in the Bible. Next was a monologue from an archeologist who articulately persuaded us to set aside some common myths and religious traditions about the historic account of Christ’s birth in order to let the Bible speak! Finally we listened to one of the wise men share the biblical account of the role he played in Christmas.
Every single event was presented professionally with two clear and consistent messages – listen to the Bible and believe the Gospel! In my opinion it was the best Christmas message I have ever heard. It all demonstrates the charge from the apostle Paul to destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ!
If you are looking for a place to investment for eternity before 2009 is history, I would like to encourage you to join me in supporting the Museum Ad Rack Campaign, which is using America’s interstate system to get the message out about the Creation Museum. My personal goal is to see brochures about the museum placed strategically along I-75 from upper Michigan to lower Florida. Thanks to the help of many of my Christian business friends, we were able to get this campaign well under way in 2009. Below are some photos I took this week showing the brochures in a hotel near the Cincinnati international airport. The first shows the brochures prominently displayed at the top and center of the rack. The next one shows them almost gone! It is the job of the ad-rack company to keep them filled, hence the reason for the find raising. The other 2 photos were taken at the outdoor live nativity at the museum. It is free and open to the public to help proclaim the biblical message of Christmas and the Gospel.
- go to AIG’s online donation page
- make your donation with credit card
- in the comment field, specify Museum Ad-Rack
For details of this project go to my blog post.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 13th, 2009
- Have faith in what God said, not in something unfounded. My faith is in God's Words based upon His character as shown thru history. #
- The everyday choices we make regarding money and possessions are of eternal consequences. – Randy Alcorn #
- Internet threatens dictorships! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran #
- Most stimulating freshman computer science discussion today-can computers think & learn as well as or better than humans? Wow!!! #
- Just watched an amazing demo of sixth sense personal computing. We've only just begun! http://wurl.ws/kFI5 #
- Time 2 make London more Worthwhile-highest office rent'n da world! $184.85/sqft. Business must b booming over there!I want in on da action. #
- Legal docs are created by lawyers, for lawyers, in order to prosecute the innocent! #
- Tis the season!Cut off by 3 drivers.Then this guy parks his car illegally right in front of Messiah.Guess I need 2 listen carfully 2 the MSG
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 6th, 2009
- For just as thru the disobedience of 1 man (Adam),many were made sinners,so also thru the obedience of 1 man(Jesus) many will b made right. #
- @JaysonByrd wow, u have family up this way? We r with Sara & Caleb. Joseph went out on his first small game hunt yesterday! in reply to JaysonByrd #
- @rundle and u r one year closer to that age today! in reply to rundle #
- Met an amazing family tonite @ church. They r Filipino church planters seeking funds to help plant more baptist churches in their homeland. #
- Civil war: 620K lives taken; 4M lives freed; freedom is NOT free! Pic taken @ Gettysburg. A worthwhile reading. http://moby.to/aemzwq #
- @theemmyawards yes, check out worthwhile.com in reply to TheEmmyAwards #
- If u were a short guy during the civil war chances were greater u got killed in battle! They put the short guys upfront. Ouch! #
- Fat flight attendants don't fit on small airplanes! #
- One of the busiest flying days in America ends with 15 planes ahead of ours on runway in Charlotte – think we'll drive the car next time! #
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Too many social spaces?
Posted by admin in CpS 111, Worthwhile on December 4th, 2009
We’ve seen an explosion of social spaces during the past couple of years – facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Many organizations have built their own social space to provide the communication needs of their people. Many of us have lives in multiple of these spaces, which I like to call virtual worlds or at least virtual neighborhoods. I live in several, some public; some private and I just got bit by an ugly downside of this!
I teach one MBA class in which we use an online world that includes many of the social network tools, email included. I teach their one semester every other year. Recently, unknown to me, a whole bunch of new people moved into this world. They represent a group that I’m very, very interested, prospective students! They are the life blood of a teacher. No students. No one to teach. No reason for existence! One of the new kids on the block decided to send me a communication via this space. Since I’m not teaching the MBA course this semester, I don’t frequent that space and completely missed the communication. Until today, when I was notified that a major change had been made to the space, so I decided I should make sure I still exist in that space. Upon entering the space I was greeted with a 2 month old message from a perspective student! Horror of horrors! Not a good way to impress such a person to invest tens of thousands of dollars to come to my institution for a 21st century liberal arts education! Communication is a key aspect of this type of education. We sell it. We brag on it. We promote it. We teach it. But in this case, it seems obvious that WE MISSED IT. Or at least I missed it. It never dawned on me that a prospective student even had access to that space.
What’s the solution?
- remove myself from all these extra spaces? not going to happen
- spend time in each space every day? not enough time in a day!
- notify everyone everywhere that I prefer to receive my communications in a specific space? while I would like this, I don’t think everyone else would like to have to keep track of which space I prefer!
In my opinion, as a seasoned bit builder, and keeping in line with Alan Cooper’s exhortations about software interfaces in his outstanding books The Inmates are Running the Asylum, the only reasonable solution is to improve the software! The space should, recognizing the importance of communication, give me the option of having my emails automatically forwarded to another space. There are other variations I can think of on this option, but I’ll leave those for the interaction designers of this world to decide. May their very small tribe increase so we can free the inmates from running the asylum! [for more details on this topic, see my blog]
A word to businesses – be careful to instruct your people to know which spaces they are in and make sure they don’t miss any important business related interactions in those spaces! Poor communication is not good for business.