My trip to Iceland in May 2021 — The goal of this writing is to open source our itinerary and trip details for all those wishing to visit this beautiful country on earth. I will not go into details of sites, tips & tricks, etc. as there are many blogs and websites covering them. The trip started right…

Vulnerable leadership is crucial for building trust and ensuring team success. — Effective leaders ‘do vulnerability’ AND the best leaders are also the most vulnerable. Vulnerability is an important quality for any leader. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love. …

Something's got to give in this housing market. Affordability has fallen off a cliff and housing prices have not yet fully moved to reflect this. Housing market in a nutshell: If you secured a 30-year fixed mortgage on a $600,000 home at a 2.6% interest rate in 2021, you have…

Scary high home prices, gas prices, soaring inflation, stock markets — Its crazy times here in USA that I haven’t seen before. I’ve been living here since 1995 and have seen 2000 dotcom burst recession, 2008 great recession, 2020 recession and now 2022. This time it's nothing like before. Let’s take a look at 3 major factors: 1. The elephant in the room: Housing — Scary-High Home Prices Two years ago, we…

Yes, very likely. I hate to be pessimistic but all data points to it. Let's hope I’m wrong!! — re·ces·sion — a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters. Let’s look at 3 things and the data points: GDP in Negative: First the most important measure of economy. The GDP calculation accounts…

Most people think “the metaverse” is a virtual place. It’s Not a Place, It’s a Time, a moment in time. In artificial intelligence, there’s an idea of “the singularity”. It’s a moment in time where AI becomes smarter than humans. The moment when artificial intelligence > human intelligence The metaverse…

But the Republican Party deceived the people of America — The Senate on Saturday passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in a party-line vote (50–49), without the need for VP Kamala Harris’ tie breaker, as Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) was absent due to family emergency. 9% of the bill pays for the vaccines and distribution. The rest…

His decision making Leadership skills based on Intuition and gut — The year was 1998. Tim Cook was on the fast track, recently recruited as a top executive at the world’s largest personal computer company. But that company wasn’t Apple. His employer at the time was Compaq, which was much bigger then, and seemed maybe a better bet to be a…

America’s mistakes and the struggles on coronavirus tragedy continues… — …and this time with vaccine distribution — the technology, the system and the data behind it. The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states. Millions of Americans have struggled to get vaccines through various…