2015
Get a cheap shareable 2nd number for your mobile phone
There are many situations where I don't want to give away my personal cell phone number (work, selling something, dating, etc). There are about a dozen apps that provide "burner" number but what if you need something semi-permanent? Something you can destroy but that you can also keep and use for 30/60/90 days or longer. This is where Too comes in. You install the app, pay the fee to reserve the number and voila. You can choose numbers from a list of regions in Canada, USA & UK.
Best compression bag/sack for travel or camping
Over the past 20 years, I have spent thousands of hours in the air. Travelling is definitely as thrill and allows you to live new experiences. Travelling is incredibly enriching, but do it long enough and you start to look for cheats or tricks. After buying dozens of different types and brands of luggage, I finally found the one I fell in love with and I recommend, the RedOxx AirBoss. I wrote a review about it here (link). After travelling around the world several times, it still looks sharp and brand new.
Quote about Hope
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness #DesmondTutu#quote#life#success#coach
Quote about positive thinking
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar
Quote about leadership
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Quote about the simplicity of life
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
Quote about living
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard
Quote about giving up
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A Edison
Special Olympics ambassador responds to media use of the R-word
When I was younger, kids use to sing a little song that went something like this "Stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". The reality is that words do hurt people and insulting thousands of people with one tweet is what Ann Coulter did during the last presidential candidate debate. <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/260581147493412865" target="_blank"><img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/4557d6a373.jpg" alt=""></a> Special olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens decided to respond and respond beautifully he did (link).
Quote about Chaos
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra
Quote about peace
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. - Buddha
Microsoft Office kills productivity (part 1)
The future of productivity In addition to my day job (as the CISO of a large multinational manufacturer), I do a tone of pro-bono work with startups. My goal is to share my knowledge and expertise and hopefully help these crazy entrepreneurs start something that becomes massively successful. Even though many of these startups are on the cutting edge of technology, most still rely on old productivity paradigms that have plagued us for the last 30 years. Microsoft Office kills productivity Reflect on your current productivity workflow.
Quote about positivity
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
Quote about coffee and awakening your spirit
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. Fran Drescher
Quote about solitude
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton
Quote about Choices
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling
Quote about Truth
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Quote about the importance of creativity
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people. - Roger Wilkins
Quote about mountain
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon