by Greg Scott | Apr 10, 2019 | Slice of Life, Technology
All my life, I’ve been the guy who comes up with ideas people ridicule, ignore, and marginalize. In my life, RIMing is so common, it should be a verb. Back in 2005, I pitched telecommuting to the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce after listening to a presenter talk...
by Greg Scott | Mar 30, 2019 | Slice of Life, Technology
I keep trying to figure out why so many find it so difficult to communicate with tech people. My artistic friends tell me it’s because we have our own private language. If we would stop trying to impress people with our technology words and just dumb it down for...
by Greg Scott | Feb 17, 2019 | Slice of Life
I don’t need to search very hard to find corruption in the great state of Illinois. Four recent governors went to prison, Illinois is the third most corrupt state in the United States, and Chicago is the most corrupt big city. I live in Minnesota...
by Greg Scott | Feb 9, 2019 | Technology
Temporary setup for livestream testing on top of Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN. the day before Holes 4 Heroes 2019, the coolest event in North America. That’s a portable microwave tower to the internet next to the tent, courtesy Nextera Telecom. By early 2021,...
by Greg Scott | Jan 29, 2019 | Memoir
I was eleven years old when I got my first newspaper route. That experience taught me lessons I’ll carry to my grave. The minimum age for paperboys was twelve, but I figured I could say I was twelve because the Arizona Republic wanted paperboys, I wanted to...
by Greg Scott | Dec 30, 2018 | Slice of Life, Technology
This is a story about real life cyberheroes, and it’s every bit as good as great fiction. But before going any further, this is my blog on my own website, which means anything I say here is from me and might not reflect the opinions of the people who pay my...
by Greg Scott | Dec 21, 2018 | Memoir
As my mom, my fiancé, Tina, and I approached the Mai Tai restaurant in Excelsior, Minnesota, Mom said, “Let me do the talking.” It was spring, 1978 and Mom’s 51st birthday was a couple months away. She looked like an aging Hollywood diva. A maître d behind a podium...
by Greg Scott | Dec 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity
It doesn’t take serious writers long to learn we need to be fanatical about quality with every element of our stories. So why, when we demand quality everywhere else, do we embrace Hollywood hacker stereotypes? Hollywood hacker characters are usually young, misfit,...
by Greg Scott | Nov 16, 2018 | Slice of Life
I want to thank author, Jerry Jenkins for his Writers’ Guild and Your Novel Blueprint course. I took myself as far as I could on my own and I’m glad I found these in 2017. I’ve made new lifelong friends and, hopefully, improved my writing. And...
by Greg Scott | Nov 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
Here is an identity theft story from my friend, S. In her own words. The lesson – never never never give anyone your debit card. Even if you’re recovering from surgery in a hospital. ******************* Last place one would expect identity fraud My...
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