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Aqua Road Bike Life Lesson #1: You start things by starting them

Aqua Road Bike Life Lesson #1: You start things by starting them

This is about one of the life lessons a vintage, and very aqua road bike, taught me. You can read more about that in the first post of this series, The Univega and Life Lessons it has taught me. Years ago, while on a ride with a friend, I found this road bike...
Aqua Road Bike Life Lesson #1: You start things by starting them

The Univega and life lessons it has taught me

This story is not about Univega, but about THE Univega, my Univega, and about the life lessons that it taught me about dealing with rejection, seizing opportunities, perseverance and grit, confidence and trusting your own judgement, and even hope. Years ago, I was on...

That’s impossible…

There are things you deem impossible, and then there are those things that you don’t even think as impossible because they are so out there, that you don’t even consider overcoming the obstacles, they are just “impossible”. And those are the...

NO FOOD

Context changes everything. Us, who are in the Telecom business, we know the difference between the Auto Teller Machine (ATM) and the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Removing or changing context is also a favorite tactic in the political game. My wife is a...

Partner Values

Just the way it works for personal relationships, if you are trying to get an idea on who a person is, you could look at their possessions, their car, their house, etc. You could look at their education, or in which family where they born into. You could also look at...

The Search for the Ideal Partner

We have all been there. We spend an awful amount of time trying to profile the ideal partner, and we go through the exercise of evaluating all their capabilities. We try to find out the number of sales people that they employ, their technical capabilities, etc. But I...