"If you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood." ~ Jeff Bezos I've been misunderstood for 10 years. The problem comes when you're trying to raise funding, trying to get buyers to understand the value - even when it's plain as can be. I used to think value, especially immediate value, was e...

This is one fo my favorites in the bible. "For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, he saved us not by works of righteousness that we had done, but...

"In 1 Samuel 17:30, David's older brother mocks him when he steps up to fight Goliath. But what does David do? He turns away and speaks to someone else. That's not just a throwaway moment-it's a masterclass in mindset. David doesn't waste energy arguing with someone stuck in small thinking. He doesn't try to win the argument-he's focus...

No decision you face in business or life will come with perfect clarity or complete certainty. Leadership requires reassessing outcomes and adjusting course as new information emerges. craig ganssle

It's Saturday A dark day. A day of grieving. Mourning. The religious leaders pay another visit to Pilate. They remind him that, before Jesus died, he told them he would rise from the dead after three days. A request is made for Pilate to send guards to protect the tomb. They're afraid Jesus' disciples will steal his body and falsely cl...

About a year ago, Jason Fried wrote this: "Thanks to email, people across cultures, continents, countries, cities, and communities communicate every day. It’s reliable. It’s simple. It makes it easy for two humans to share their love, and for millions of people to earn a living.". Amen, Jason. Communication is so fragmented today. I gr...

This HBR article is one of the best articles I stumbled upon in a long time. I laughed reading some of this because of personal and professional experience. This is not only a leadership decision, but it’s also realizing that no matter the age of your employees, and how seasoned they think they are, many of them lack basic team organiz...

(originally published on my LinkedIn “Coffee’s On” Newsletter on June 7, 2023 but wanted to add it here) A few days ago Apple gave the world the first look at Apple Vision Pro — their version of a mixed AR/VR experience expected to launch sometime in 2024. Truth be told, I think if anyone will make a success out of this from an adoptio...

Often times, people will create a quick task. They’ll write down a few things and put them in the proper columns in a kanban board, or in the proper lists in To-Do’s, but it never includes a date. Sometimes, we need to jot these things down quickly to get them out of our heads, but it’s exceedingly important that we go back and put dat...

I’m guilty of utilizing marketing tactics to gain traction in the marketplace without knowing the details and how true the statements really are. Early on, I was so new to agriculture, I based comments off of what I heard other “experts” saying. Turns out, they’re just in it for the marketing too. For the longest time, many large corpo...

What does it take to run a successful proof-of-concept (POC) in artificial intelligence? While my company is most known for the work we’ve done in agriculture with our Farmwave technology, this principle will apply to any industry you want to integrate machine learning. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what it takes to run...

We’ve all had this experience, whether it be a bag of potato chips, or a bag of Doritos like above. You get the party size because you need the most chips for your get together and because it’s a very popular snack item. Doritos are always a big hit. Whether you decide to put them into a bowl, or just leave the bag for people to help t...

This is an excerpt from Andrew Ng of Landing AI in an article he wrote in Nov of 2021: “Software companies have been successful at getting users to adapt to one-size-fits-all products. Yet machine learning could help software capture and interact with the rich diversity of the physical world. Rather than forcing every city to build str...

Artificial Intelligence has been around since approximately 1956, when, John McCarthy coined the term during a workshop at Dartmouth College. I’m not a big fan of it today. I think it should be called Automated Intelligence… at least for now. Today, compute power and data are more available and more cost effective than in the 1950’s so...