Ever since my wife and I got our dog, Walter, 6 years ago, we’ve ordered his dog food off Amazon. It’s slightly cheaper than buying it at the store and delivered right to our door. We had never considered changing it up. There was no reason to. That is until last month when we decided […]
Read MoreI don’t have razor-sharp technical skills. I’m not the guy for writing dynamometer programs, developing analytics logic and dashboards or creating visually engaging communications. I’m kept around to strategize and make decisions. I’ve always liked to solve problems; in fact, I have an often-annoying tendency to seek and point them out. Presently few of us […]
Read MoreBefore the sun rose to spread mid-July warmth over the two-story farmhouse set on an 80-acre plot somewhere in middle Wisconsin, the seven-year-old occupant of a small second-floor bedroom was already awake. The skinny kid, Kenny with tousled dark hair, a farmer’s tan, and eager eyes, had nearly jumped into knee torn jeans, a T-shirt […]
Read MoreThe other day my partner Meg and I took a long walk down 10th street on the south side of Milwaukee with a big package in our hands. It was a 3ft chocolate Tyrannosaurus Rex wrapped in gold wrapping paper for our good friend Johnathon. (He really likes dinosaurs.) When we arrived at his house, […]
Read MoreYou’re essential, and you’re out there, open, doing the work – or – you can work from a computer, which in this day and age means you can probably work anywhere. I’m the latter. I’m remote, my team is remote, and we carry on our roles as best we can (and sometimes better) from a […]
Read MoreNo matter who you are or what role you play in the world it’s different now than it was two weeks ago. By different I mean changed. Change is difficult. The change we face now is a crisis; a pandemic. It’s disruptive, destructive, unpredictable, and scary. What can we do? Change with it as best […]
Read MoreIt’s issue 450 of REMAN U. I was hoping to do something special – a really momentous article, or maybe just one written by Captain Reman himself. But alas, it’s challenging times we’re in. I’m writing this from a table in my home; my son (the Taylor Swift fan) is eating oatmeal beside me in […]
Read MoreI’ve never liked Taylor Swift. (Bear with me.) When she first arrived on the music scene, she was a little bit country, and I was a lot-a-bit rock ‘n roll. As she got bigger and poppier, my musical tastes became more esoteric and indie (yes, I’m kind of a snob). I heard “Shake It Off” […]
Read MoreI have spent almost my entire adult life submitting applications to grants and art foundations in the hopes of one day making a decent film. It is a goal that I have yet to achieve in this life: a film, with a budget to get actors with strong chops and sets, and locations and the […]
Read MoreI’m going to keep this short. I’m overwhelmed. It’s Thursday, and I like REMAN U articles to go out around 2pm. My team and I have been in a groove getting articles to me BEFORE THURSDAY sometimes allowing me to schedule them and watch ’em roll out to the world at the pre-arranged time. Not […]
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