“The United States has too much freedom.” This comment was made by a friend who is currently living in Shanghai when discussing the exponential climb in number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. Some additional context, in Shanghai the government currently mandates specific apps to track your activity to enforce social distancing. However, they’ve also…

There are hundreds of thousands of patients who are waiting. With their thoughts, maybe a TV to entertain them, and the occasional neighbor, who’s six feet away. Their normal visitors, friends, and family, can’t visit because of necessary precautions. They’d love to hear from you. I encourage you to write them a note. (In the…

Firstly, bad things happen Secondly, bad things happen often. Thirdly, they are *always involved Fourthly, someone or something else is always to blame. *que superlatives Photo by Zane Lee on Unsplash.

If you don’t know, Pluralsight is giving away a free month of their service because of the pandemic. Seeing an opportunity, I signed up and completed the “Project Management Basics for Non-project Managers” course. I believe that learning is best realized when you can articulate your learning to others, so here is a summary of…

If you had to guess, would you choose a monetary reward or social recognition as more impactful incentives for users to provide good answers to questions? Let’s take a real life example to see how this played out. Mahalo.com was a Q&A site that utilized a special incentive process to get users to ask and…