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May 6, 2025May 5, 2025Book Review

Just Keep Growing: 25 Servant Leadership Lessons Book

Just Keep Growing

One of my good friends, Martha Boehm, just published her first book, Just Keep Growing: 25 Servant Leadership Lessons. I got to be one of her beta readers and if you’re a leader or aspiring leader, I highly encourage you to check it out.

April 30, 2025April 29, 2025Teaming

How NOT To Handle Team Conflicts

This time I year, I usually get at least one email out of the blue complaining from a student complaining about a teammate. Let me lay out how NOT to handle team conflicts so you don’t end up like some of my student teams at the end of the semester.

April 22, 2025April 21, 2025Early Retirement, Financial Independence

Why Now is a Great Time to Pursue Financial Independence

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Despite our retirement accounts falling nearly 20% since Trump took office, now is an excellent time to be pursuing financial independence or to be financially independent. Here’s why.

April 15, 2025April 14, 2025Democracy

Has The World Gone Mad?

The World Burns

Instead of writing my regular blog post today, please enjoy this poem I wrote, Has the World Gone Mad?, to help me cope with current events.

April 8, 2025April 7, 2025Democracy

Weekend Protests and, No, DC Is Not Burning To The Ground…Yet

Protestors in Madison, WI

This weekend, I flew to Washington, DC to check out how Trump’s policies are affecting the area and I attended a protest in Madison, WI on Saturday, April 5th. I have to say, going to the Madison protest was one of the very best things I’ve ever done.

April 1, 2025March 31, 2025Travel

Spring Break in San Diego

Torrey Pines

I have three friends now living in San Diego, so I decided to finally go for a visit. Here’s what we did on our whirlwind tour of San Diego, California.

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025University Classes

GE Healthcare Capstone Article

GE Healthcare

I developed, run, and teach UW-Madison’s Computer Science Capstone program. Last semester, GE Healthcare had three teams of students working on two different projects and they wrote a nice article about the experience.

March 18, 2025March 16, 2025Book Review, Women's Rights

Fair Play: Could It Save Your Marriage?

Fair Play Book Cover

In a time where women’s rights and gender equality are seemingly moving backwards, I just read a book that could help women make space in their schedules for our brilliant and important contributions to society. A book that might have been able to save my first marriage. That book is called Fair Play by Eve Rodsky.

March 11, 2025March 10, 2025Book Review

The Anxious Generation: A Book Review

The Anxious Generation book cover

The Anxious Generation confirms what we might already suspect is going on with our kids and our society: too much time spent online is simply not good for us. It offers evidence for why a phone-based childhood is not good for kids as well as four, simple things we can do to address the situation.

March 4, 2025March 2, 2025Culture

Diversity & Inclusion (DEI) Are Important Now and Always Will Be

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States have fallen out of favor (to put it mildly). But, diversity and inclusion programs are not only harmless, they are absolutely necessary. Here’s why they’re important now and always will be.

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