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 […]
Category: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]