49 Days. 7 weeks. Today marks that many days (and/or weeks) since I had my Total Knee Arthroplasty (replacement) surgery. I updated my status after two weeks here, and described why I needed the surgery in the first place, here. It’s been a ride, to say the least. When I was a kid, Disneyland had different kinds of tickets for…
As I noted in an early post of this blog, I've been struggling physically for a few years, and have tried a bunch of therapies to try and avoid a knee replacement. Ultimately, nothing worked, and I had my knee replaced on May 17. Today marks 16 days since surgery. It feels like forever, but as my PT reminded me…
Part 5. The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. - Steven Spielberg In the prior 4 posts of this series on My Unlikely Career. A Retrospective, in 4 decades, I really dove down into my background. How I got to where I am today,…
Part 4. "That was some of the best flying I've seen to date — right up to the part where you got killed." - Top Gun, 1986 The 80s were when I came of age in this industry. Top Gun was the highest-grossing movie of that decade, and my oldest son was born in 1986 after his mom's water…
Part 3. “…And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?...” – Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads, 1981 Interestingly, this classic debuted in 1981. As did I, at least from a professional perspective. That was a long time ago, and I never really examined the idea of “how did I get here” until I started…
Part 2. “Marketing? What the hell is marketing? Software? What the hell is software?” Catchy title? Not really. Actually, these were quite literally the thoughts that went through my mind when I got my first real job, in 1981. And I really never expected that this new job of such extreme unknowns would end up as the beginning of…