Full disclosure that this is not a promotional article for MorningBrew. It’s an honest opinion blog post about feeling overwhelmed by the news cycle and why I like the service. For the last six or so years I have actively avoided watching the news cycle. When I was watching (or…

A couple of nights ago I came across a YouTube channel called Game Developers Conference which hosts game development and design talks given at GDC events. Now, I have been a gamer since I was nine years old, and as someone who loves to delve into how things work, I…

Recently I began paying more attention to my reactions in an older mil-sim game that I play. The game has six different infantry “classes” to play as (which are basically six different unique tools and gear that is specific to that type of soldier) and over 15 vehicles to pilot…

These two things have nothing in common, except maybe that napkins are sometimes given when you get sushi takeout to mop up any spilled soy sauce. When thinking about it, the art of sushi is like the complete opposite of the purpose of doodles. To make sushi is a refined…

I’ve begun a new research project (that I’ll likely talk about in another blog article). As anyone who knows me would expect, I immediately began planning how to research researching. I’m a planner-kind of guy; I like to know what I am getting into before I get into it. …

Reading my Ukrainian friends’ words on the night of the 24th of February, as their country began to be invaded by Russian military forces, broke me. I could not sleep that night and my manager the next morning was worried for my health as he saw the deep shade of…

I recently stumbled across a really interesting TEDx talk about thought leadership. While that is an in-depth topic that I will dive into on my personal blog, there was a really interesting concept from the talk that stuck out to me and I thought would be a great topic to…

I have to share something hilarious that I’ve been doing at work. My company uses Slack to communicate which I am sure most people are familiar with. On Slack you can set custom statuses in addition to marking yourself active or away, and it’s this feature that I’ve been taking…

Back in October I attempted to start a blog about customer experience. Throughout September and October I was watching videos, listening to podcasts, and reading articles about CX because I was very interested in the subject. At Drexel University I never really learned much about CX since all my classes…