by Rod | Dec 6, 2018 | Technology and Business / Food
Do you want to be the world’s best? I had my shot. When I was 19, I swam against Matt Biondi and Tom Jaeger—the best sprinters of my era. Swimmers up. Take your mark. Beep! Image by Mauricio Genta, licensed under Creative Commons license 4.0. That race was awesome....
by Rod | Nov 26, 2018 | Technology and Business / Food
Instead of making a fresh breakfast, I sometimes get lazy and buy my kids a breakfast sandwich, in all its processed glory. And I feel guilty when I do. We think of such fast food as unhealthful because of all the technology applied to create it. But take a step back....
by Rod | Nov 20, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
My introduction to my future mother-in-law: “Mom, this is my boyfriend.” “Honey, don’t joke like that.” My future mother-in-law assumed I, a white, Jewish, California native, couldn’t possibly qualify as a boyfriend to an ethnically Chinese woman raised on the island...
by Rod | Nov 16, 2018 | Technology and Business / Food
My family buys the fancy, half-dollar eggs with the complex label: GMO-free, soy-free, free-range, grass-fed, brown eggs at $6/carton. We spend four times what cheap eggs would cost to eat healthier. However, even our fancy eggs aren’t truly healthful. And most of the...
by Rod | Nov 8, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
Would my son grow up without a father? This was the decision I had to consider a few years ago. I chose to be a father—a committed, present, full-time father—and I moved to Delaware to be with my son. This meant I had to leave my career in the Netherlands and reinvent...
