Jer979's Blog

Every year for the past, goodness, 25 years or so, I’ve played in some sort of “Turkey Bowl” on Thanksgiving. I’m pretty competitive (no s...

Continuing my fascination with the global food supply chain , I watched a documentary called "King Corn." I just love this kind ...

Food, Inc. (Image via RottenTomatoes.com) We’re coming out of Thanksgiving. Appreciating all of the bountiful harvest, right? Howe...

About 15 years ago, I dropped in on a presentation at the business school of the International University of Japan . I was a graduate stud...

Sometimes people come over and ask "what can I bring?" Now, I just send them a list....it's kind of like a Briday Registry fo...

Image via CrunchBase My friend Jacob suggested that I watch the show "Sports Night" on Netflix. Now, thanks to him, I am hopelessl...

I don't get it. Saw an article in the WSJ the other day talking about "re-inventing" picture day. I have about 10,000 pics ...

The book I successfully borrowed from the library on my Kindle was Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World ...

I borrowed a library book the other day. No big deal, you might say. Thing is, I borrowed it on my Kindle. And that IS a big deal. H...

Had a pretty special moment at BWI the other night, courtesy of Southwest Airlines. As I was going through security, I saw about 45 peop...

The NFO was away for weekend a few days ago so I was a bit more present in parenting than usual. I like to think I am generally pretty goo...

Yesterday I shared an example of rock-climbing as a way to stretch the “comfort zone” muscle. Earlier that day, I was on a call with one o...

My friend Joe (that’s him in the picture) invited me to go rock climbing with him at the Earth Treks Climbing Center , which was something...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Ok, if you are a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm , you’ll get this. If not, feel free to come back...

Image via Wikipedia My mother-in-law gave the NFO a copy of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , but the NFO never got to read it. I ...

Someone asked me about this the other day…so may as well share why I fly the flag of a small German town in front of my house. My family h...

I saw this mobile app a few months ago and rediscovered it recently. It’s called Waze (they have iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia v...

I’ve been blogging/fascinated/focused on the jobs of the future and American innovation. My marketing guru is Seth Godin. I thought this p...

A while back, I shared that I was feeling a bit conflicted when I get the “Can I pick your brain?” request. I didn’t want to be a jerk by ...