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December 28, 2022December 29, 2022

LastPass and What To Do Next

Breaking the News

For those of you who don’t follow this type of stuff….LastPass was breached. http://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
First, why does that matter to anyone? It’s a good question if you don’t follow any security news, or maybe don’t know what LastPass is exactly. The short version is it’s largest company that allows you to store passwords for all your things online. If you’re like me you already see the problem here, but to make it clearer I’ll just say that 30 Million people use this service to keep their passwords safe and secure. That kind of treasure trove is like the internet version of Smaug the Dragon’s horde of gold in the Hobbit. You’re just inviting attacks, and that’s exactly what happened.

Wait But Why?

Why would you store your passwords online? Well, there are other alternatives for how to store your passwords.

December 5, 2022December 5, 2022

Calling Out The Gold Organizationally

When dealing in the non-profit space, there is a tendency for things to move slower than they should and for inner-organizational accountability not to exist. The way I’ve seen this play out is: Continue reading “Calling Out The Gold Organizationally”

March 17, 2022December 2, 2022

Office 365 and Business Automation

If Only I could clone myself

Every week at 3pm on Thursday afternoon I send an email to my staff….the only thing is that I don’t actually send it. My clone sends it.

March 29, 2021August 31, 2021

Starting Up

Bullet Journal List
Coffee
Calendar

How do you plan what fills your time?

December 2, 2019November 30, 2019

Health and Boundaries – 2

Last time I posted I wrote about how I’ve finally been in a recovery state from depression. It took me about 10 months to gain all of my energy back and I’m still learning lessons from the time I was experience a depressed state.

September 30, 2019November 30, 2019

Health and Boundaries

Recovery is tough.

I’m just now recovering from a year’s worth of depression. No, I haven’t been in depression recently. I finally came up for breath almost 10 months ago, but I’m just now at a place I’d describe as recovered. I’ll go into more detail in the next several weeks. about it. Describing the why and the what of my experience and the how of recovery.

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019

Being Present and Scheduling

Resets are a good thing

Years ago, I was going through a reset on my life. I needed it. Too little sleep, not enough exercise, and too much work were leading to a bad health situation where my body was about to hand me some divorce papers. Continue reading “Being Present and Scheduling”

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019

Technology keeps growing and it gives me hope

A while back I was looking into AI a little more heavily after finding some interesting use cases. Mainly two with Crisis Text Line and Bark. At some point I ran across Hannah Fry and her book “Hello World”. One of her arguments in this book speaks to algorithms and is a good understanding of ethics surrounding the creation of technologies.

March 19, 2018

Inventiveness and Leading

You can’t know everything.

No one should expect you to. As I’ve told different teams I’ve lead “We make the best decisions with what we know now.” Even in rocket science, you have to have some version of a “margin of error”. I mean, come on…. Continue reading “Inventiveness and Leading”

March 12, 2018

Trading Scalable for Happier Users?

I’m Agnostic

Full disclosure before I start. I’ve always been a bit of a Windows fan. That said I’ve also been an Mac fan. I sit typing this on my Surface Book while my Mac Book Pro that I use regularly is in the other room, my iPhone is beside me, my son is watching a show on our iPad, and my android tablet is in the bedroom. I’ve said it before, I’m a technology agnostic. Whatever you use to get the job done doesn’t matter as long as Continue reading “Trading Scalable for Happier Users?”