Remembering Deanna Bennett
A tribute to Deanna Bennett (1945-2023), Palm Harbor author of the Anna Immigration Trilogy and founder of the East Lake Writers' Workshop, from Richard Lowe.
Category: People (Page 3)
Behind the BookA Dancer With a Bone Through Her Nose Taught Me How to Ghostwrite
A bold and wildly creative dancer with a bone through her nose and tattoos that once made my conservative side shudder. We became friends.
PeopleJohn Shields
A tribute to John Shields, CEO of Trader Joe's from 1988 to 2001. He gave his people real freedom, backed their judgment, and was one of the greats.
PeopleMercy Tribute
Remembering Mercy, a belly dancer with the Ujam troupe who lit up every faire and stage with energy and a constant smile. Always dancing, always happy. RIP.
PeopleRufus Caldwell Tribute
Remembering Rufus Caldwell, the first employee I hired at Trader Joe's. A thorough, well-liked IT pro with a laugh that filled the room. Rest in peace, friend.
PeopleRon Sukenick Tribute Page
A tribute to Ron Sukenick, founder of The Relationship Strategies Institute, author of Networking Your Way to Success, and master of the giver's philosophy of networking.
Behind the BookIt Took a Camera to Make Me Comfortable Around Women
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
Artificial IntelligenceWhat I Learned in Pascal in 1980 That Every AI Executive Should Know
In 1980 I wrote Pascal for a water district that lost contact with half its infrastructure for weeks each winter, and we built a control system that ran without humans, knew its own limits, and failed safely when it hit…
Behind the BookThe Hypervigilance That Ruined My Childhood Made My Career
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
Behind the BookI Hid in the Bedroom at My Own Party. It Was Going Fine.
Out of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
Behind the BookI Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
PeopleFrank Hoeffer II
A tribute to my grandfather, Frank Hoeffer, Navy cook and WWII prisoner of war for three years and four months. He came home and never let anyone leave hungry again.