What Is This?

Your mouse and keyboard have somehow managed to give you an encounter with this, the home page of yours truly, Dave Becker…

This is where I write stuff. Present stuff. Express myself. Sometimes… Okay… Every once in a great while. Google me, and here’s where you might wind up. Narcissistic, perhaps. Fine. This is the only place I get to be so and nobody whines about it.

I refer people here when they want to read about our adventures in Prague, or see a few photos of the family.

I’m also always up for Adventure. That’s right, with a capital “A.” So this lets people know that. My resume is here, for those who might be trolling for someone with my skills, background, and, especially, someone who’s up to creating what they are wanting to bring into the world.

Other Stuff

I also collect and publish a collection of quotations, poems, and snippets of prose, just for grins.

What Am I Doing?

Well, this year, 2022, I’m looking to create several things: first, I’m seriously considering returning to the working world as a software development manager. I continue to trade stock options in my own margin account, and I’ve been creating a course on volatility, and free tutorial videos on YouTube on using the ThinkOrSwim trading platform. If you know anything about me, then you’ll understand that it must be using computers.

Blog

Remote Control: Mastering the Art of Working from Anywhere

I’ve been working remotely off and on throughout my long career as a software engineer, manager, and tech executive. I was working from home long before the COVID lockdowns introduced the concept to huge numbers of workers who formerly knew work only in the context of offices and cubicles. I’ve worked remotely from home, from …

Our Wolves

An elder Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, lies, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, vindictiveness, resentment, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf stands …

Being Cause-in-the-Matter

“Ultimately, being cause-in-the-matter is a context from which one chooses to live. Being cause-in-the-matter is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt—there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what’s so, and your stand. Being cause-in-the-matter starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the …

Contact

You can contact me at editor @ mrbecker.com. If it weren’t for bots and web page scrapers I’d provide my address and phone number, but, alas, … Anyway, you can contact me through social media, too. Either way, go ahead! I look forward to connecting!