Did you ever see the opening scene in The Player, by Robert Altman 1992? It’s a famous long take much like Hitchcock's “Rope” and others. In the movie, everyone is pitching their new story ideas to the top producers on the Hollywood back movie set, while the camera keeps moving for 8+ minutes. They pitch how the new movie is just like another known movie but different and is described through analogies and stories. e.g…

I was recently a guest on a new LinkedIn video podcast hosted by my friend Mark Salisbury, PhD. He is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. …

REMEMBER the scene from Young Frankenstein where Gene Wilder is stuck trying to get behind the hidden bookcase? He states slowly to his lovely assistant: “now listen closely: Put. The. Candle. Back.” Let’s talk about that as it’s so sums up 2020. In 2020, and the 21st century, the put-the-cable-back…