Hi, I’m Brennon. I spent the first half of my life checking off countries on both personal and business travel. Now I’m going deeper, and I really want to tell you about it. Hopefully I get good enough at the telling that you’ll want to read what I have to say. That’s the plan anyway.
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Facing a Sordid Past in Germany
“It’s important to acknowledge the evil that was done and pay respects to those who suffered there.” This is what a German-American said to me prior to my departure from the US to Berlin when I expressed to him that I was torn about whether to visit the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum at the site…
Paris, You Nailed It!
Pulling off an Olympics is hard. There are about a million things to plan for, both things you can anticipate and those you cannot. I’m guessing, of course, because I’ve never been part of a project anywhere near that big. I have led my share of software projects, though, and that “planning for the unexpected”…
Confessions on an Olympic Junkie
My name is Brennon, and I’m addicted to going to the Olympics. I think it started when I got my first taste of glory in sporting activties. I was born a talented kid. I was fast. Really fast. No one could catch me in a short-distance race when I was young. I first demonstrated my…
Berlin Things
I was originally going to call this post “German Things,” but I’ve now been in Berlin long enough to realize it is a unique place within Germany. I suspect that many (most?) of the observations below are common across Germany, but I think it’s best not to generalize based on what I’ve seen here. My…
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