This was another week of “no news is good news” at work where I gave presentations and got little feedback from the audiences. The optimist in me is patting myself on the back, but why is the realist in me is looking over my shoulder?

Lethal Weapon? – I had heard a tale from people that if one of your kiddos gets their Black belt in karate, you need to add a rider onto your liability insurance. According to my insurance agent, this is not the case. But my inquiry was due to the fact that one of my kiddos did get her Black belt this week, and I am extremely proud of this hard-earned achievement!

Final Separation – eBay has been peppering me with emails the last few weeks about how it is no longer paying into people’s PayPal accounts when they sell something on the auction site and will instead direct deposit to your bank account. I finally read one of these messages and went into my account, but they didn’t force me to enter specific account info as of now. This appears to be the final separation since eBay spun off PayPal several years ago.

Marketing Gets Into the Fun Too – There’s such a thing as the Agile Marketing Manifesto. It’s a work in process, and here’s its current status.

Step-By-Step Thinking – This week I watched a great Q&A with agile experts Roman Pichler and Mike Cohn where the Ladder of Inference was discussed. I had never heard of this before, and it’s a model for how people make decisions, often times with 2 people making different decisions.

Easter Egg Omelet – When I opened Microsoft Excel today I decided to pause and look at the templates that are available to me. I have never looked at these before for if I am opening Excel without a file, I am creating one new. Among the templates is the Periodic Table of Elements. Who knew? I didn’t.

The Good Old Mobile Days – I watched the 2017 documentary The Rise and Fall of Nokia Mobile whose title says it all. Where I was around and involved with the influencer community of the one-time mobile device giant, this story interviewed many of the people who were integral to its successful rise, all to be let go from the firm as it exited the mobile handset space it virtually invented.

Where I may not know Jack, I agree with the message he has on the back of his truck.

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

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