by Mike | Feb 22, 2022 | Bible, Jesus, John Wooden, New Beginnings, Surfing in Heaven Original Blogs
“God doesn’t ask us to be successful, only faithful.”-Amish Proverb As much as I had been anticipating it, I was seriously wounded when the words finally came. After 25 years of continuous employment in Silicon Valley, the layoff bullet I had been dodging for so many...
by Mike | Jan 23, 2022 | balance, biking, exercise, John Wooden, running, Surfing in Heaven Original Blogs, swimming, triathlon
“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.”– Coach John Wooden Anyone who has known me throughout my professional career would back my claim that balance in life has been modus operandi. It is in my DNA. As I came into Silicon Valley aspiring to achieve...
by Mike | Mar 19, 2017 | New Beginnings
Email sent to my co-workers at Oracle: Date: January 19th at 3:51pm Subject: new beginnings I will be leaving Sun/Oracle effective today — time for new beginnings! It has been my very great pleasure to work with you all. THANK YOU — especially to Vijay Tatkar, who has...
by Mike | Jun 6, 2016 | Silicon Valley
“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.” – Coach John Wooden (click image for “Circle of Life” quiz) Prologue (4.2) To me that it’s the simple things in life that can make the biggest difference. This story starts with a bit of an epiphany I had one night...
