by David Phillips | Jan 3, 2021 | Feature Articles, Leadership
There are, in most every organization; people who are gifted in one specific area, be it programming, art, sciences, etc. But they are, just for the lack of a better term, jerks. While we won’t get into the specifics of WHY they act this way, as they are different for...
by David Phillips | Jan 23, 2020 | Books, Feature Articles
You don’t build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible – Laura Vanderkam At the end of 2019, my wife and I took a trip to Rome, GA. It was our anniversary...
by David Phillips | Apr 19, 2016 | Business, Feature Articles
Despite being the largest health insurer in the country (pending the merger of Aetna and Cigna), United Healthcare is leaving ObamaCare in 2017 in all but a handful of states. Why? “The smaller overall market size and shorter-term higher risk profile within this...
by David Phillips | Jul 13, 2015 | Culture, Feature Articles, Featured
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Incarcerating the communityDuring the Baltimore riots earlier this year, I ran across an article that spoke to the community impact on Baltimore due to the lack of an older generation with the Black community. The article,...
by David Phillips | Jul 9, 2015 | Business, Feature Articles, Featured
M-PESA (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service, launched in 2007 by Safaricom, the country’s largest mobile network operator. M-PESA was originally designed as a way to allow microfinance-loan...
by David Phillips | Jul 7, 2015 | Culture, Feature Articles, Featured, Technical
The following video is a TED talk delivered in Vancouver, BC in March, 2015 by Chris Urmson, head of Google’s self-driving car program. He talks about where his program is right now, and shares fascinating footage that shows how the car sees the road and makes...
