This past week I spent a lot of time participating in and conducting training, and then it seemed like the rest of the time was making up for what I missed or didn’t do when I was in said training. Though the idea of calling in sick to get work done came to mind, my ethics gene kicked that idea away.

The Write Time – Who knew I lived so close to the Museum of Writing Instruments? Now that places are opening up, I’ll have to pencil in a visit there.

Just Don’t Write Your Passwords – Where it’s a great recommendation to have unique passwords for Web sites and services, should you change them often or be forced to do so? This article talks to the pros and cons of changing passwords regularly and a tech giant that is changing its stance on this.

Don’t Shoot, Shoot, Shoot That Thing At Me, Anywhere – Clearly not everything is obvious in life, like not having naked Nerf wars.

So You Don’t Get Into a Pickle at Work – New to me is the Gherkin syntax for defining business rules that are easily translated to code. I learned about it in a class I took this week. Curious – have you used it before?

Are You Fast Enough for Big Tech? Just when you thought it was enough to worry about your Web site’s content accuracy, SEO, SSL, hacking, yada-yada, add Web page speed to the list. Well Google wants you to at least. Page loading can make a difference if someone will wait to view your content and perhaps buy from you. The areas for improvement for this very blog are ones I will be working on. But at the end of the day, if it takes a few seconds longer to load, will you still read this blog?

Easier than Untangling? – I’ve mentioned JLab audio equipment before as the brand has worked well for me. I just learned they offer a recycling program where you can get a 30% discount on new products when you turn in old ones. This might be the solution for those headphones and items that I can’t part with because they just might be used again maybe possible someday.

Back on the Virtual Stage – I was invited again by my friend Eric to talk about “underperforming friendships” on the audio social media channel Clubhouse this coming week. The last time I was a last-minute addition to the discussion, so this time I have had some time to put some thoughts into this, and let me know after this Wednesday what you think.

Too Much Marketing – Where it’s easy to find alcohol-infused (also known as “hard”) seltzer at convenient stores, it’s still hard to find plain old seltzer that is not sweetened or infused with something other than CO2. At one stop last week I took a triple take at Liquid Death. After getting beyond what I was actually reading, some of which is pictured above, I found it being simply a can of carbonated Austrian mountain spring water. And as it is European, the carbonation is less than you would find in a US brand. It went well with my salad, but no thirsts were actually murdered in the process of drinking it.

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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