Category Archives: Social issues

WFH Diary – Changing times

Posted on April 29, 2020 by T.Rob

For a moment, consider the coronavirus as a type of singularity. Leading up to it, conditions on the far side of the event horizon are so different as to be unimaginable. Once we emerge on the other side of this … Continue reading →

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WFH Diary – Video conferencing

Posted on April 3, 2020 by T.Rob

The first thing I do when I get a new laptop is to block the video camera, and the latest work computer was no exception. Now that everyone in the office is working remotely, we were directed to use video … Continue reading →

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Big thanks for March For Our Lives

Posted on March 25, 2018 by T.Rob

This is to thank the students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and from around the world who protested today. It turns out you were marching for my life today, too. As a school kid I had epilepsy which was diagnosed, and … Continue reading →

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Leading by example vs. herding from behind

Posted on March 24, 2016 by T.Rob

To me leadership isn’t forcing people to behave the way you want, but making a good enough case to persuade, and leading by example. Our legislature in NC doesn’t feel the same way. To them leadership means forcing people to … Continue reading →

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Qualifications for the office of President

Posted on February 7, 2016 by T.Rob

There’s an old maxim that journalists are supposed to report the news not become the news.  This was easier when the reporter was just a byline on their stories.  With radio and then television came the need to like certain … Continue reading →

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Soul food with a side of “huh”?

Posted on February 7, 2016 by T.Rob

It has been a tradition in my family that everyone gets a birthday dinner at the restaurant of their choice.  For me it’s a chance to drag the family to some new restaurant they would probably not otherwise have tried.  … Continue reading →

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Weapons of mass intoxication

Posted on October 10, 2015 by T.Rob

Back before Facebook, cartoon memes were photocopied and faxed from office to office.  During the Cold War some of those memes involved military strategy for defeating “the Ruskies”.  Among the popular memes for a while was the ICBMW: Intercontinental Ballistic … Continue reading →

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Taking a break from man-splaining

Posted on September 7, 2015 by T.Rob

A Facebook friend linked a post tonight about two guys who used an outdated law to sue and shut down a women’s tech group.  First, I gotta say I hate the actions described in the story.  The guys involved are … Continue reading →

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We never called it sex

Posted on September 6, 2015 by T.Rob

In his post We Never Called it Content, Dick Taylor gives us an insider’s view of the implosion of terrestrial radio.  He points out, quite correctly in my opinion, that “radio is an art form. When you remove the artists, … Continue reading →

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Publishing, recognition, and social media

Posted on August 27, 2015 by T.Rob

The publishing industry, indeed pretty much all our industries, evolved in a world governed by the laws of Newtonian physics.  Value flows through the supply chain, physically attached to the atoms of the product.  Value is created through scarcity.  The … Continue reading →

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