Sometimes a bit of chaos is the creative spark you need. If you're reading this during the first week of November when this blog drops, I'm somewhere in the Mexican Caribbean on the fourth PromoCruise. At this point, you'd think that organizing and running a networking event would be some variation of "wash, rinse, repeat." However, for a variety of reasons, this PromoCruise feels very much like the first time – and I'm not talking about the 1977 hit song from Foreigner.   As

How opening your mind can lead you to the right solution. Everyone I know loves being right – including me. It feels good, it's validating, and it makes us feel as if we know what we are doing. However, when one feels they are right all the time, it comes with a nasty side effect: it stops them from learning.   I've always been drawn to the way scientists think, even though I have the polar opposite of a scientific brain. They begin with the premise that they might be wrong –

And the space we leave behind. I never spoke to him. I never crossed paths with him. He certainly had zero idea that I even existed. But when the news flashed across the screen, "Ace Frehley, guitarist and founding member of KISS, dead at 74," it hit me like a ton of bricks. Not surprisingly, I spent that pleasant autumn evening outside listening to song after song from the KISS catalog. Outside of my family, work, the Texas Aggies, and smoking food on the weekends, my passio