Playing Host to Flat Stanley
Flat Stanley is a storybook character popular among second graders. As the story begins, he is a real boy who is later flattened by a falling bulletin board. Stanley learns that life in two dimensions...
View ArticleWhere I Live: Southtown
We arrived in San Antonio on the first Monday in 2011, relocating here from Silicon Valley so my partner Brian could help build the next generation of Cloud technologies at Rackspace. On Thursday,...
View ArticleOut For a Walk
A man is out for a walk in his neighborhood in an affluent niche of Silicon Valley, a lovely historic district home to a vibrant downtown scene, surrounded by loads of charming old homes lovingly...
View ArticleThe World Sounds Different Today
When I was 10 months old, I survived a week-long bout of spinal meningitis that left me with a moderate-to-severe hearing impairment. When I was about three or four years old, I was outfitted with my...
View ArticleIf your child were born deaf, would you get them a cochlear implant?
The question was posed on Quora: If your child were born deaf, would you get them a cochlear implant? This was my reply. Absolutely. I speak to this issue as someone who lost the bulk of his hearing...
View ArticleWord on the Street: Soup
In my new job, I have the opportunity to engage with people from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe as they visit “my downtown.” Today is my first on the job and I am in training all...
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