Hugh Molotsi

Tonight we celebrated Fresh Lifelines for Youth's 10th Anniversary at the Stanford Faculty Club. It was a fun-filled family reunion where we got to look back on ten years of changing the lives of at-risk youth so they can become productive members of society. The 49ers foundation was our main event sponsor and we honored Dr. John York and his family with the Judge Jones Spirit Award for their many years of support and investment in FLY. In the photos: Above left is Keena Turner with my Intuit colleague Jim Trovato and me; above right is Dr. York with my wife Michelle and me; and in the bottom is my very happy photo with Christa Gannon, FLY's amazing founder and executive director. Congratulations FLY! I look forward to our 20th celebration!

We attended the 34th Annual Awards Dinner for Science and Decision Making tonight at the San Francisco Exploratorium where Intuit's founder Scott Cook received the Director's Award. We're very proud of our founder who has been a teacher and mentor to so many of us and has instilled in us Customer Driven Innovation: find an important customer problem and solve it well. Congratulations and very well deserved!

Learn about Intuit's Rotational Development Program , a great way for recent college graduates to start their careers in one of America's most admired software companies .  Here's a short video from last year where I talk about the program.

The Fresh Lifelines for Youth board wished a very fond farewell to esteemed member Sharon Grennan who officially resigned at our February 16th 2011 board meeting. Sharon has been an amazing volunteer and dedicated supporter for FLY with her deep empathy for FLY kids and her decades of experience in the juvenile justice system. Thanks Sharon for your service and best wishes to you! Sharon with board member Bill Ihrie With Executive Director Christa Gannon

Congratulations to Stefan Zier, Carol Dresser, and Mark Lazar for their outstanding service as board members of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY). The picture above shows Stefan, Carol, and Mark at their last board meeting on July 7th, 2010 with beautiful artwork created for them by a former FLY client.

I carry around a folder and a paper notebook at work as I shuttle between meetings.  I find that embarrassing since this is the 21st century, I'm a technologist and I work at a technology company yet still rely on a very old school way of taking notes.  I would love a device that let's me write notes naturally (I don't need handwriting recognition) and have them easily accessible with the rest of my electronic information. I've thought of carrying a laptop computer around but typing notes during a meeting can be very distracting and come across like you're not paying attention and doing other work.  Yes there are tablet PCs but these are too bulky, take too long to start up and generally overserve the job.  I've considered a digital pen like Livescribe but that would still require me to carry a laptop with me to see old notes. Even though I know the iPad wouldn't solve the note taking job, I still felt compelled to purchase one last weekend to see how c...

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