I’m in a room at the Kansas City Public Library branch on the Plaza packed with over 200 people listening to Jerry Moran’s opening address at the Gigabit Challenge. What is the Gigabit Challenge?  An entrepreneurial competition hosted by Think Big in Kansas City that generated over 113 submissions from 9 counties.  What’s the Challenge?  [...]

Winning.  It’s what every college football fan wants for their team this bowl season.  And I’m no different.  In less than a week, the Kansas State Wildcats will play in the AT&T Cotton Bowl against Arkansas. Winning.  This was something I was doing when I had my wife talked into a Cotton Bowl trip to [...]

Recently, I’ve found myself waking up to birds chirping.  And not from those outside.  Instead, those chirps and squawks come from my daughter hard at play on the next level of Angry Birds.  For a three year old, she is amazingly proficient. Here’s her trick. She starts by focusing on one specific level.  She pulls [...]

I was just in the middle of daydreaming about the leadership stereotype.  You know the type.  Fancy suit, mahogany rich office, leather chair, oversized windows, cocktail bar, fancy art adorning the walls.  More importantly, I was imagining a conversation with that leader as he or she analogized their life to an overpriced piece of artwork [...]

#Gigabitcity.  Search for it on twitter.  You’ll read some amazing things Kansas Citians are planning for Google Fiber.  Google Fiber offers broadband service 100x faster than today’s broadband services. What in the world can you do with Google Fiber? Google Fiber isn’t about faster HD reruns of Sex and the City on Netflix or free [...]

I was just in the middle of watching the New York Jets play the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football.  I’ve been a Jets fan ever since 5th grade.  I always think they are going to win.  Except when the Jets are down 24 to 10 with 14:50 left in the fourth quarter.  Only twice [...]