Trying to stay positive and reach out to people. Episode 2 from quarantine. Covers wide range of topics I am passionate about including: music, technology, television, Rock & Roll, puppy dogs, the United States of America, the city of Boston. This might be my favorite episode I've recorded. The episode image is me with my Telecaster Custom in my home office taken in March 2020.

Week 3 for me living in quarantine. I share two helpful thoughts that worked for me. One is rather personal and something I don't talk about often. The other relates to employers supporting remote employees. What I've taken for granted for decades is something strange and new to most others. In follow up episodes I'll share some of my concerns for intermingling home and work networked device. It's the beginning, not the end, and we just need some fresh thinking.

The image photo is one of the dozens of photos I take each day on my walk with little doggie Bella around the beautiful forest and lake we live in. There are worst places to be quarantined than this lovely town of Sturbridge, MA.

Looking for a path to a fun and exciting career? Rich shares more ideas on how to find your own action-packed career. He explains some of the concepts of "High Risk/High Reward" as we begin the year 2020. Always entertaining, he shares certain philosophical beliefs and daring practices for turning your career, and your life, into an adventure. The picture is taken during fall in New England at the house we lived in before buying one less than 1/4 mile away. Also in this picture is Sue, Rich's high school AND current sweetheart mentioned in this episode and Bella, the little doggy that keeps him walking several miles in this beautiful town in rural Massachusetts. Forty-something years after meeting Sue in High School, they live in this lovely place just 30 miles from where they went to high school together. Moving easily through tangents that somehow all tie together, Sadowsky tries to distill down a recipe for a challenging and rewarding career (and life). He shares how his latest employer convinced him to come in for an interview.

A new year and a new episode. Rich calls the so-called security camera products to the carpet for unethical policies around security and privacy. He then explains how the very platform that launched so many self-published stars is now working to remove their incentive to create content. Both are important issues. These are topics that you are going to want to understand for one simple reason. That reason? You are the only hope for demanding and modeling change. In order to change things you must first grok them. Achieve grokkage and the path will emerge from the mist. Some light swearing in episode. It may be a new year but it's the old me talking and I swear.

Prior to our series A and the Indiegogo crowd funding campaign, Jibo had to operate extremely lean. Thanks to our co-founder Jerilyn Asher and her connections, we found a secret locations for us to work from. To the best of my knowledge this is the first time this story has ever been told.

The image is from a photo shoot with Jibo co-founder Cynthia Breazeal with an early Jibo prototype from this secret location. I believe this photoshoot was for either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics but may have been a different publications. I took this picture as I was supporting Cynthia on this interview and photo shoot. Obviously there is no way to determine the location from this photo.

Raising guide dog puppies was one of the most meaningful experiences in my life. This episode discusses the heart warming (and heart breaking) story of how my late wife Cyndi fulfilled her lifelong dream of raising guide dog puppies. I talk about many topics related to our 4+ years raising very special puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind (www.guidedogs.com). This episode wraps up talking about the beautiful guide dog graduation ceremony and takes us up to when Cyndi passed away. I know it meant the world to her to have fulfilled that dream and raise proud puppies who went on to be guides for visually impaired people.

The picture for this episodes is Ruffles, our first guide dog puppy, graduating at Guide Dog for the Blind's (GDB) Oregon campus. Look at how attentively Ruffles listens to me while I tell stories about her. I'm on the right with the microphone, my daughter Jackie, Ruffles in the middle, Ted (the blind man who received Ruffles as his guide) and the GDB master of ceremonies. Cyndi was in the audience and took this picture. She was too ill to take the stage with us.

Everybody will be interested in this no matter what you do for a living. There's a great life lesson in here. It also features the kind of amazing things that happen in my life. This provides insight into why they happen. This is worth the 36 minutes. The truth will set you free!

The picture for this episode is a photo of Bob Wilson, the man I speak of in the article, from an article from Eric Rhoads' blog called Radio Ink Tank. It is indeed a small world after all. Eric, is a mentor, friend and former boss. Eric is the creator and publisher of the other radio industry trade publication. I met Bob Wilson in 1984. In 1999 I met Eric Rhoads when he was CEO/founder of RadioCentral and he hired me as CTO.

This is the tale of how I finally found my people hiding behind a secure door at an Apple Computer building in Cupertino, CA. (leased by Symantec). At 11 and a half minutes it's my shortest episode to date. Rather than attempt to summarize this funny story, I suggest you give it a listen. I bet you don't see the ending coming!

The image for this episode is a screenshot of code I wrote in response to a CompuServe Turbo Pascal forum question. I'd often respond with some code and then later use the code in an article, or write a unit (Turbo Pascal's way of packaging a library) and upload it to the public domain (the old school original "open source"). I have found samples of code from the early 80s still available online and some of the code went into operating systems and entire generations of products. You'll note my contact info is my CompuServe ID since this back in '88. Like much of my 1980s published code this showed how to interact with systems level stuff from your Turbo Pascal program.

As a young man I was a participant in the jury of a death penalty murder case in the city of Los Angeles. This episode explores that unique experience and how challenging determining the truth can be. I share my unique take on jury duty.

CORRECTIONS: This trial was a couple years later than I recalled in the audio. The trial ended in 1988 when I was about 26 years old. I first moved to Los Angeles in 1984 just prior to the Summer Olympics.

You can't please everyone. This is a humbling story of how we received feedback on LiveUpdate from someone who signed the message "DeadUpdate Dick". He did not share the glowing reviews we were receiving elsewhere.

The image is from publicly available images of LiveUpdate in modern Symantec products.