As a business consultant I am often charged with making my client’s company more “innovative”. Every CEO wants to be the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Jeff Bezos, for obvious reasons. You’ll get no argument out of me that…
Insightful and Well Written
Robert Coppedge
Month: September 2013
Information on Ethics
A recent article in the Pacific Standard magazine makes the case that software engineers need a dose of ethics when it comes to designing their applications. Its easy to insist that everyone perform ethically in their endeavors but the reality…
Capital-less Capitalism
Capital – noun – wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing. As a business and IT consultant…
Posted in Business
Modern Dad S1:E4
Another great episode, they keep getting better at this. The primary plot lines were poker night and Rick needing to catch up on his housework because the in-laws were coming in to town before he could go to the poker…
Posted in Media
Happy Exceptional Birthday
Our youngest of three children was born four year ago today. She was an exceptional child starting at birth for two reasons. For one thing, she was exceptionally long for an infant which has translated into being exceptionally tall when…
Trolling Trending SAHDs
trend – noun – a general direction in which something is developing or changing. A recent article in The Atlantic trolls the recent trend pieces about the rise of SAHDs. The author first points out that SAHDs are still a…
Posted in Society
Modern Dad S1:E3
This episode was the best yet so either the show is steadily improving or the dads are simply growing on me. They seem to be sticking with the major/minor plot line structure common to most TV shows. I wonder if…
Posted in Media
Back to School – WOO HOO!!
Recently my wife showed me this picture someone sent her of a joyous SAHM on the first day of school. After spending the end of the summer trapped in the house with all three children by the Texas heat I…
Posted in Life
My Father’s Hippie Son
I read an article a couple of weeks ago that talked about men with long hair and that while it’s more acceptable to have long hair for men it must still appear effortless in order to comply with masculine expectations.…
