The media tends to present every story as having two sides. It makes for good TV—or radio, press, blogs, etc.—to present arguments from “both sides” of the issue. It creates ready-made conflict and absolves the host journalists from actually following…
Author: F. Andy Seidl
F. Andy Seidl is a serial entrepreneur, software innovator, and technology business advisor with over thirty years of experience. Most recently, Andy is a founding partner at Advantary LLC, a full-service management accelerator that provides interim CxO services to early/mid-stage companies. He also teaches a course on Digital Product Design at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, Center for Entrepreneurship. Andy is passionate about building software to last, playing guitar, mountaineering, backpacking, hiking, running, and critical thinking. He is Dad to a son and twin daughters with his incredibly accomplished best friend, business partner, and wife of 36 years.
Welcome to the World Wide Web
It was twenty years ago today Tim Berners-Lee taught the world to play (online)… Technically, it was April 30, 1993 when CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain. And to commemorate the anniversary, they have resurrected the…
Thirty-one
Clearly, the smartest move I’ve ever made: It’s been a great thirty-one years. My best friend and I have managed to do quite a few things together since then. For example, we… Graduated from UM (three times); moved to Chicago (two times);…
.05% Breath Alcohol Limit? “Ludicrous”
The National Transportation Safety Board has a proposal: Reduce the legal blood alcohol limit from the current value of .08% to a newly proposed limit of .05%—and save half the roughly 10,000 people killed annually by drunk driving on U.S.…
Too big, too small, and just right (maybe)
For some reason—who knows why; does free will even exist?—I made three exercise related new year resolutions this year: Run 800 miles Walk 200 miles Do a single run of at least 8 miles Too big: As of today I’ve…
Separation of church and state?
No; not here in Jesusland. On Wednesday, lawmakers in Washington turned the capitol into a house of prayer. Speakers included Newt Gingrich, Christian author Eric Metaxas, and one of our favorite crazy ladies, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota). Here’s some of…
Moderately Newsworthy: 19 Wounded in New Orleans Shooting
I just stumbled across a story in the New York Times about a shooting yesterday at a Mother’s Day parade in a New Orleans neighborhood. There was a time when such a story would be been BIG news. But not…
John Oliver on Gun Control
The Daily Show’s John Oliver did a brilliant three-part series on gun control in Australia and what we, here in the U. S., can do to ignore their results. John Oliver Investigates Gun Control in Australia—Part 1 John Oliver…
Coming Soon?
I’m in in the process of moving my FAS Talk blog from http://faseidl.com to this new http://talk.faseidl.com sub-domain. I’m also experimenting with using Facebook commenting for this new blogsite, so please feel free to leave comments! 😉 Also visit me…