It August! My zucchini are going wild and my peach trees are nearly over loaded. Here are some recipes that will use both of these ingredients and will provide a great meal in the process. It start with a great cold drink and finished with a mouth watering dessert, Enjoy! Peach Thyme Smash. Ingredients 1/2 cup fresh…
This post may give you the suggestion that I am running out of things to write about. Not the case! I am in Alaska this week so I decided to do some easier things. Living in Reno, you get used to certain sights — snow on the mountains, casino lights downtown, and, every summer, a…
How the Rise of Sports Wagers Is Supercharging NFL Superstitions I’ve long accepted that NFL fans (really all sports fans) are a superstitious bunch. There are the lucky hats, the pregame snacks, and the “don’t you dare change the channel” or other behavior rules. My wife, for example, has a “lucky T-shirt” for her team….
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that the movies being delivered by the traditional Hollywood studios are mostly a rehash of well-worn themes — superhero reboots, mega-franchise sequels, and blockbuster special-effects extravaganzas. Whatever happened to originality and innovation in movies? It’s hard to get excited about Fast & Furious 65 or…
Modern Writers Who Prove They Don’t Need a Dead Man’s Name I am off on a week’s vacation next week and then again in September. So, I am searching for books to load up my Kindle for those two weeks (should take about six new books for my collection). But there’s a special kind of…
—and Remembering When We Saw It Before A fan’s reflection on Scottie Scheffler, the legends before him, and what greatness really means There’s a moment in every sports fan’s life when you realize: you’re watching greatness happen in real time. You’ve seen it before—maybe in flashes, maybe stretched over seasons—and now, here it is again….
A few Sundays ago, I was watching a tech segment on one of the national morning shows. The guest was explaining, with great confidence that we are facing the greatest change in how we live, that AI was going to change all our lives—our work, our homes, and perhaps even our sense of purpose. I…
Well, we have reached August which in baseball are the dog days of summer. But for the backyard, it’s time for summer barbecues and parties. So, I thought it’s time to provide some more recipes for the season. Here are my suggestions: Grilled piri-piri chicken wings Smash burgers with bconnaise Beer can chicken Farm stand…
or Just the Lucky Few? “Cool, now what?” That’s the question Packy McCormick poses at the heart of his recent essay, Means and Meaning. It’s a clever turn of phrase that captures a central tension of our time: We have more tools, more time-saving devices, more access to knowledge and automation than ever before. But…
Employees happier, healthier and higher-performing? The four-day workweek is trending again, and this time it comes with charts. A new six-month, six-country study says that shaving off a day (without reducing pay) leads to less burnout, better mental health, and happier employees. Sounds like a win all around. But before we start mandating three-day weekends…
AI and the Real Productivity Problem This Is Something Interesting When it comes to AI, most of the public conversation seems to center around one big question: Will it replace us? But that’s the wrong question. And it implies the wrong approach to using AI today for probable several more years. What we should be…
How Older Adults Are Rewriting the Script on Aging Forget the stereotypes. The golden years aren’t all early bird dinners and endless television reruns. Across the world, older adults are pushing back against isolation not by retreating into passive routines, but by creating, connecting, and contributing. When I was born, the average life expectancy in…
Adventures in Peeing After 70 I never thought I’d write publicly about peeing. But here we are. And if you’re over a certain age—and honest with yourself—you’ve probably thought about it a lot more than you used to. Getting up two or more times each night is something that you have to get used to…
The Musk Model Under Stress In business school and boardrooms alike, we learn that vision is the spark. There have been a lot of sparks over the years that have not resulted in thriving businesses. That’s because it takes systems, structure, and sustained attention to turn that spark into a thriving enterprise. And while few…
This Is Something Interesting We’ve all heard debates about gentrification—who gains, who loses, and what it means for communities. Most of the time, it gets framed as a cultural conflict or an economic inevitability. But this Substack article takes a different tack: it treats gentrification as a housing supply issue more than anything else. Instead…
Baby Back Ribs Made Simple I realize it’s after the Fourth of July, the biggest barbecue event of the summer. But let’s be honest—grilled ribs are a treat any time. They don’t need a holiday, just a little time, a bit of heat, and a good rub. This article isn’t about smoking ribs for 24…
How Jazz (and a Few Others) Shaped My Ears Two things happened in high school that shaped my music taste forever. The first was getting tickets to Jazz at the Philharmonic, where I was introduced to the explosive brilliance of Dizzy Gillespie and the pure vocal magic of Ella Fitzgerald. The second was listening to…
Factory-Scale Automation for Small Businesses For decades, industrial automation has conjured images of massive machines sealed behind safety cages—powerful, fast, and too dangerous to work alongside humans. But a quieter revolution is underway, led by a new kind of robotic coworker: the cobot. Cobots—or collaborative robots—are designed not to replace humans, but to work with…
Why Our National Blind Spot Could Rewrite the Future There are a lot of things I don’t worry about anymore. Getting promoted. Buying the latest phone. Finding the right tie. But one thing I still worry about—probably more than I should—is the national debt. Not because I think it’s going to collapse the country tomorrow….
New Gemini AI Could Change Everything If you’ve ever watched a video of a robot struggle to pick up a banana or fold a towel, you’ve seen the frustrating gap between what AI can think and what robots can do. Google DeepMind may have just taken a major step toward closing that gap. (see my…
(And Why It Wouldn’t Drive Me Crazy) I bought my laptop a little over 15 years ago when I was still doing some consulting and business development. It has many features I’ve never figured out how to use effectively—and some are still total mysteries. So much for being a technology geek. Over time, I’ve tried…
What I’ve Learned from Writing On June 23, 2024, I published my first post on Yogiwan.us—a simple “Hello World” that marked the beginning of a small project I started mostly for myself. I had no real audience in mind, no monetization plan, no urge to build followers or chase likes. I just wanted a space…
In keeping with my thread on robot, I came across this article in Forbes written by someone I used to work with a couple of decades ago. He was a thought leader then and remains so today. If you ever run across things by Jonathan Reichental, it is always worth reading. Dr. Reichental introduces the…
(Or: Why We No Longer Know What’s True) There was a time—not so long ago—when “being informed” meant something. You read the newspaper. You watched the evening news. You listened to voices that, for all their flaws, were anchored in reporting, fact-checking, and editorial standards. You may not have agreed with everything they said—but you…
Building Online Still Takes Work (No Matter What the Ads Say) There was a time — not so long ago — when building an online business took real work. You needed a real product, a serviceable understanding of the tools, and the discipline to learn, test, revise, and persist. It wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t flashy….
And Other Mysteries of Modern Tech Where did the everyday user go? And does Microsoft even care anymore? I recently attempted something wildly ambitious. Not building a rocket. Not editing a podcast. I tried to read a book. On my Surface Pro 7. Specifically, a Kindle book. You know, the kind I can read on…
(Because I’m Not Repeating That Again) The jazz is playing, the lights are mostly on, and the future still looks bright There was a time—maybe not so long ago—when enjoying music meant a little work. I had hundreds of vinyl albums and CDs, sorted (mostly) by genre: jazz, pop, Broadway musicals, blues, even a little…
Remember When Watching Your Favorite Team Was Easy? I Do. There was a time—not that long ago—when you just turned on the TV, flipped to the right channel, and there it was: your game. No passwords, no apps, no subscription math. Just you, your team, and maybe a neighbor or two yelling at the screen….
My Tablet Setup Saga In the early 1980s, we were introduced to a brand-new concept: the personal computer. IBM’s PC arrived in 1981, and the Apple Macintosh followed in 1984. By today’s standards, those machines were laughably clunky—limited in speed, memory, graphics, and the ability to do more than one thing at a time. But…
Everyone has an argument every once in a while – with your boss, your kids, your spouse (how does that happen) or your friends, Some of are better are arguing than others. This article gives us some ideas on not only how to argue better but how to resolve the issues that started the argument…
