Looking For My Tickle
Tickling your opponent to win a UFC fight. What comes to mind? Sheer unmanliness? Bush league? Genius? Something very close to that actually happened last year. In an amateur MMA match in Maine, fighter Mason Lewis got trapped in a nasty choke. No angle, no leverage, he was doomed. So

Thoughts going into the New Year
It’s my birthday today as I write this, and I’m looking forward to a New Year. If you read the papers (I still read the

Ep. 22 – Federico Veneziano on Machining Business Around the World
Scroll down to listen to the podcast with Federico Veneziano. On today’s podcast we interviewed Federico Veneziano, COO and CFO of American Micro, a 100
Barber School
Sometimes you can learn a lot from getting a haircut. I’ve been going to the same barbershop for 20 years. My needs are simple. Same

Ep. 21 – John Saunders, Entrepreneur and Self-taught Machinist
Scroll down to listen to the podcast with John Saunders. In today’s podcast we interviewed John Saunders, founder of Saunders Machine Works and the creator
Football Breather
I needed a football weekend badly. It had been a week of business travel, end-of-the-month tension, end-of-the-year push, and what I really wanted was to

Ep. 20 – Scott Roy on Machines that will Think Like Humans
In today’s podcast we interviewed Scott Roy, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google who specializes in artificial intelligence. He also happens to be my brother-in-law

