A quite relaxing inn with a splendid view.

A beautiful and rather interesting place.

More on the Saab 95 V4 Wagon, here.

The indefatigable DUKW.

Tap for a larger view (above), taken on the Bainbridge Island – Seattle Ferry.

The astute observer might notice Beecher’s cheese.

A pleasant, if not challenging at times hike.

I’ve not seen this in awhile. A young professional on travel with the mandated Blackberry in one hand and the personal iPhone in another.

Still. Summer 2016.

The employer is quite large. “Thanks for pointing this out”.

Andrea Coravos:

We expect our executives to have a strong understanding of the financial performance of their companies. Shareholders would find it strange – or more likely, unacceptable – if a CEO said, “I’m not financially-inclined” and passed along financial performance inquires to his or her CFO. Similarly, CEOs in an increasingly digital world will struggle to say, “I’m not technical” and hand over mission-critical business questions for the engineers to answer.
 
 Would you, as an employer, hire an MBA who graduated from a program that taught strategy, marketing, leadership, and operations — but did not teach finance or accounting? An MBA program that lacks a computer science curriculum is like a program that lacks finance or accounting.

Emily Bell:

The relationship between news organizations and platform companies has become far closer far more quickly than anyone predicted. The increasing influence of a handful of West Coast companies is shaping every aspect of news production, distribution, and monetization.
 
 In the past 18 months, companies including Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Snapchat, and Google have moved from having an arm’s length relationship with journalism to being dominant forces in the news ecosystem. By encouraging news publishers to post directly onto new channels, such as Facebook Instant Articles and Snapchat Discover, tech companies are now actively involved in every aspect of journalism.

The VW Type 2.