Category: journal

  • Do you know who is the ultimate prompt engineer?

    Do you know who is the ultimate prompt engineer?

    We are fast entering this age of artificial intelligence, with big data feeding into machine learning, and the aggregated data becoming useful for collective computing to anticipate the human tendencies and pattern recognition of common answers to frequently asked questions. It dawned upon me during a recent conversation, that we are moving from flat 2-dimensional…

  • my first time doing standup comedy

    my first time doing standup comedy

    I had a quiet little dream since my teenage years as a comedian wannabe. 40 years later, on October 26, 2022, I found that 20 seconds of courage and stepped up to an open mic in San Juan Capistrano, California, and did my first stsandup comedy gig. Here’s the raw video of how it went…

  • My moment to rethink leadership

    My moment to rethink leadership

    With my personal websites crashing this past weekend, because my shared hosting service lost all my data, I’ve started to rethink why I do what I do online, with much of it being given away freely for going on 20 years. And, it so happens I am going to a church conference called Rethink Leadership…

  • all my websites’ data was lost by InMotion Hosting

    all my websites’ data was lost by InMotion Hosting

    Do you know what you’re getting with your web hosting service? You probably can’t rely on others. Here’s why.

  • Choosing the Important Things in Your Life

    Choosing the Important Things in Your Life

    When life affords you the privilege to think about more than survival, it’s human to explore questions of meaning, purpose, and what’s important

  • Wisdom for Life Stages, Seasons, and Decades that Many People Go Through

    Wisdom for Life Stages, Seasons, and Decades that Many People Go Through

    Want to make a difference in the world? How can people find their unique and best contribution? There’s wisdom in undertsanding and knowing the seasons of life that are marked by the decades of our chronological age. I first heard these words of wisdom from Stan Endicott (co-author of Improv Leadership and co-founder of Slingshot…

  • How to Stop Feeling Guilty All the Time

    How to Stop Feeling Guilty All the Time

    Can I make a confession? I’ve felt guilty very often for much of my life. It’s a terrible burden to carry around. Some of it comes from my personality, maybe because I have a sensitive, or over-sensitive, conscience. There’s guilt from both sides of the coin: the guilt of doing something wrong, and even doing…

  • How to transfer phone number away from Straight Talk

    How to transfer phone number away from Straight Talk

    This article explains plain and simple what is required to authenticate the transfer when on the BYOP—bring your own phone—plan on Straight Talk. I have an unlocked iPhone SE, original version. Bottom line: the new provider needs to make a port transfer request with the Straight Talk account number and a security PIN that is…

  • Hot Sauce Shops in LA, OC, SD

    Hot Sauce Shops in LA, OC, SD

    Find where you can stroll the aisles of hot sauce shops in Southern California, so you can taste wonderful flavors of heat and buy instant gratification. No more waiting for delivery.

  • Where to Get Nashville Hot Chicken in the OC

    Where to Get Nashville Hot Chicken in the OC

    I love spicy food. Even though I’ve traveled to Nashville for business many times, I usually eat barbecue there. Then, last year, I discovered that Nashville hot chicken was a thing, not in Nashville, but in Louisville, by accident, when I was just looking for a dinner spot and would up at a place called…

  • Can we talk about suicide and mental illness now?

    Can we talk about suicide and mental illness now?

    How many more celebrities have to die tragically, before we can talk about these hard topics of life and death? Death is one of those topics that most people don’t want to talk about; there are many reasons for that. But death is a certainty; we are all human and mortal. Closely related to that,…

  • How much sleep do you need?

    How much sleep do you need?

    If there’s a difference between how many hours you sleep versus how many hours you need to sleep, that’s called sleep deprivation. Many of us have learned how to live with less than optimal sleep because of the demands of life. The sure way to know how much sleep you need is to sleep until…