January 6, 2024 Happy New Year 2024! It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year holiday. An opportunity to be with family, friends, and recharge the batteries. My family and I went back to Seattle, for the first time in just over 10 years. TEN YEARS, away…
August 23, 2020 Make no mistake; the COVID-19 pandemic is expensive. In a macroeconomic sense: world economies sputter along in low speed, needing fewer of this and that means fewer people employed, making fewer dollars, and national and world GDP not nearly as robust as before. No doubt the world we go back to will…
May 23, 2019 Here in Tulsa, we’re facing flooding on the Arkansas River. Many towns in Eastern and Central Oklahoma are dealing with too much water. My daughter’s school canceled the last 2 days of classes since Keystone Dam is forced to release over 250 cubic feet per second (cps) of water — a controlled…
Over the last year, as we “digital bricklayers” of IT have set a good solid foundation here at the Tulsa Area United Way, it’s been fun to get back into the higher functions of technology planning and being the unofficial R&D of the organization. Part of that planning happened last week when a bunch of us…
September 26, 2017 In his talks, Tom Peters used to ask his audiences “What is the oldest continually operating organization you can think of?” The answers were (a) the Catholic Church, and (b) Medieval Universities, like the University of Oxford. Which begs the Question: Why do no businesses have that kind of longevity? One could…
September 21, 2017 It’s nothing new to report that the state of Oklahoma is 48th in education outcomes. As our legislature continues to dither and waffle about whether they want to out-Brownback Kansas by being the new example of a failed state economy, Oklahoma educators vote with their feet — teachers move just across the…
April 7, 2017 Tonight at Midnight, the City of Tulsa will close an online web design competition for a new pedestrian bridge at basically 34th & Riverside. The old Midland railroad bridge is structurally unsound, and is needs to be replaced with something that will match the new look of the area, courtesy of A Gathering…
February 21, 2017 Trust me: it’s pretty hard being me. The weight of the world is upon me, and there’s not enough of me and my wisdom to go around. Lost opportunities for civilization abound, when I’m indisposed elsewhere… Now that everyone has lost their lunches, I just HAVE to tell you about a missed…
Permit me a momentary rant, which may anger some folks… If you’re healthy, and not an invalid…don’t have a Doctor’s note or in other ways not able to walk briskly for a half hour at a time…then you should mow your own lawn. You’ve heard of the “broken windows” theory? Which states essentially that a…
One of my interests is architecture and urban design, so allow me to introduce you to two little books by Witold Rybczynski… Between Home: A Short History of an Idea and City Life, you can’t go wrong. If you’re like me and love older homes and former streetcar neighborhoods, Home will explain much about why we…