October 18, 2017October 19, 2017business, education, entrepreneurship, technology, U-M Urban Entrepreneurs at Work Students in my U-M Urban Entrepreneurship class hard at work developing solutions. Our guest lecturer for this session was Charlie Michaels of […] Share
September 10, 2017business, community, gadgets, misc, technology WOW Cable’s Dark Side The Issue WOW Cable’s TV and internet services are better than decent. Their prices are fair. However, their billing policies are absolutely […] Share
August 14, 2017August 14, 2017entrepreneurship, events, provinggroundbook, technology Engineers with Attitude! Friday, July 21 was a pretty cool day in Detroit. For the first time ever, I and the two co-founders of Telecom […] Share
August 14, 2017entrepreneurship, music, provinggroundbook, technology Voices: Entrepreneur and engineer on what happens when your dream dies I HATE failure with a passion, but I must admit that I have experienced it. In fact, you could say that failure […] Share
February 9, 2017February 14, 2017entrepreneurship, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Will It Explode? (Part 2) In Part 1, I explained that my daughter Nadiyah and I were going to power up my very first personal computer, a […] Share
February 9, 2017February 9, 2017books, education, entrepreneurship, provinggroundbook, technology Black History Month is About MAKING History, Not Just Studying History As a young person coming of age in the 1960s, I learned a smattering of black history in school. We studied, however […] Share
January 16, 2017January 16, 2017entrepreneurship, family, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Will It Explode? (Part 1) In early 1983, thirty-four years ago, I got my first “serious” personal computer, a Heathkit H-89 all-in-one machine. I built it from scratch, […] Share
January 16, 2017January 16, 2017technology, travel Road Trip 2017 It’s time to start planning for the 2017 Road Trip. I look forward to seeing more of this country (and a bit […] Share
January 10, 2017January 16, 2017BBUM, books, community, education, entrepreneurship, events, provinggroundbook, scholarship, technology, U-M David Tarver to Speak at U-M College of Engineering 2016-01-12 Share
January 6, 2017January 16, 2017books, education, entrepreneurship, gadgets, provinggroundbook, technology Unexpected Reunion with a Mentor More than forty-five years ago, I began my college education at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. This was […] Share