What’s Your Story?
In a lifetime, how many opportunities have you missed to listen to a potential friend, or at least a possible interesting acquaintance, because you stopped at “how you doing today?” This thought became real to me recently while listening to a marvelous book, Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi. It

Opening Up!
Yesterday evening my wife, Stephanie, and I stopped to get gas. As I fueled up, a man named Danny, on the other side of the

Best of Swarfcast – Ep. 97 – Reducing Machine Setup Time up to 50% with Paul Van Metre
On today’s show we’re talking about how to set up machine tools efficiently. Our guest is Paul Van Metre, co-founder of ProShop ERP. ProShop produces

Making the Most of My Life?
What the heck did I do last month? What did I do last week? What did I do today? Do you ever ask yourself those

Ep. 123 – How to Find Serendipity with Christian Busch
Our guest on today’s podcast is Christian Busch, author of the new book, The Serendipity Mindset: the Art and Science of Finding Good Luck. Have

Worth the Risk?
Last Friday we sold a Swiss machine. It was an OK deal, but in order to complete the sale we had to take some live

Lean to Excess
The Ford F-150 pickup trucks, with an average selling price $40,000, are sitting unfinished in assembly plant parking lots. For lack of computer chips, they

