Lift Up Your Hearts!

During the 18 months we lived in the Boston area, we experienced three deaths in our immediate family.  This, as I realized how much vital information was being lost, was half the reason I developed an unexpected and almost obsessive interest in genealogical research.  The other half was inspired by the proximity of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) library on Newbury Street.  Although I am now over 1200 miles away from that treasure trove of information, I maintain my membership in the Society, and their eNews letter arrived at my inbox this morning.

Normally I can skim the newsletter quickly, maybe click on a link or two and read associated articles, bookmark an occasional new resource, then liberate my inbox.  This time, however, the missive included a link to a new (to me) blog that is only tangentially connected with genealogy.  Over an hour has since elapsed and I am still on the course begun when I opened that e-mail, now making my own post about The Occasional CEO.

Eric Schultz is the Chairman of the Council of the NEHGS, and The Occasional CEO is his blog.  The link that took me there was to Genealogy, the Idaho Russet, and Innovation, his speech at their recent annual meeting.  Here are a few other interesting posts I found:

I'm Going Crazy...But So Are You — the way we use the Internet is rewiring our brains.

Hey, That's Mine!: When the Other Side Adopts Your Innovation First — what do the telephone, Facebook, King Philip's War, Swiss watches, and IBM have in common?

A Plague of Dead Squirrels, (a.k.a. The Unintended Consequences of Innovation) — what we really have to fear from electric cars.

It's a Messy, Messy World (or, "How the Web Was Won") — the importance of knowing history, and how AT&T (among others) got to be where it is instead of where it could have been.

There's more, but you'll have to find it for yourself.  I need to get on with Real Life (and those e-mails).