Early Summer 2024 Reading/Viewing List
I start writing this at a York Road Starbucks after dropping our youngest child off at his first job at a grocery store, the same chain…
Matt Franz
2024: Our Second “Summer of AI” Begins
I remember when I finally got the “AI bug.”
My week with a Corporate Gaming ChromeBook: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year, I took a trip up I-83 to the Best Buy in York PA and bought an Acer 516 GE “Gaming…
Rejection Letter Collection
In my early 20’s, I wanted to be a writer. This is what you did if you were an English major and you were not bound to be a teacher.
European Cathederals Tour (Fall 2023)
In July 2023, when my wife encouraged me to take my European History vacation, the initial premise was to tour World War I and World War II…
Leap Day 2024 Reading List
Leaving Penn Station after spending the day in DC on Tuesday
Listen to the quiet ones
The nearly six years I spent at Cisco in the early to mid 2000s were critical to my early career progression and I’m not sure what I’ve…
Leadership Safe Words: Know when to say when!
127 days ago seems like a lifetime!
AI-Free 2023 Year in Review
I timed it just right!
Final 2023 Reading Targets
Since I’ve been blogging a ton here and on LinkedIn, I don’t feel I need any personal introduction this time, but the clock is ticking…
Building that $79 Black Friday FreeBSD Server (MicroCenter Edition)
No, this is not really a server
Remote Survival Rules for Managers still Undefeated by RTO
Remote or GTFO Except for the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, I’ve led remote teams for most of the last decade. At least half of that time has been on globally distributed teams, spanning multiple continents and way too many time zones to keep up with.