A local biotech company has an opening for an Executive Director of IT Quality and Compliance and after a quick inquiry with a friend who works at the company, I learned it reports up into the CFO. This is a good thing. Not the best thing. …

Life sciences companies, especially biotech and small pharma, have lagged behind other industries in their adoption of technology to optimize business performance and get to market more quickly. …

I’ve received a few inquiries lately from SaaS vendors interested in selling into life sciences. They see the big dollars in the sector and want a piece of it. I don’t blame them. The calls I received were for validation services. They wanted me to come in and ‘validate’ their…

Welcome Back My Influential Passengers: I’ve been experimenting with various tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT (am now a monthly paid subscriber to get access to GPT-4), Bing AI, OpenAI’s DALL-E, and now Google’s Bard. I have access to Notion AI but haven’t given that one a try. I had a topic…

Welcome Back My Adventurous Passengers: Last summer I took my then 17 year old (Finn) on a 20 day trip to Europe. I took pictures, journaled, made notes in my planner, and finally got around to writing 20 separate blog posts, in 24 hour increments. It took me 17 days…

Last summer, I took my then 17 year old (Finn) on a three week European adventure right before Finn flew off to Burlington, VT for their first year of college at UVM. It was fantastic. Even when things went wrong, which they did, we ended up in a great, if…

It’s never fun to sit in an airport, on your way home after a big trip and watch your flight get delayed, especially when you have a connection to make at the next airport. After a jam-packed, fun filled day in Lyon the previous day (See Day 18: Lyon), we…

Even in the rain, Lyon is beautiful and easy to explore. We woke up to a thunderstorm and watched the lightening as we got ourselves together for the day. This was in stark contrast to the previous day when the weather was unbelievably beautiful with clear, blue skies. …

It was hard to say goodbye to Les Arcs 1800 after a lovely rest day, paragliding (see Day 15: Les Arcs 1800), and our dinner adventure in Italy (See Day 16: Les Arcs 1800 — La Thuile, Italy).