By Stan Lemon
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ecently, it dawned on me that I’ve been on staff with Higher Things for ten years. That makes me the second longest tenured staff person in the organization. When I say it out loud it sounds like a really long time. A whole decade!
I’m the technology executive for Higher Things, which is a fancy way of saying I make sure the website runs, your magazine subscription gets recorded somewhere and you can register for the summer conferences. In the technology world nothing lasts ten years. Nothing. Normally by the ten-year mark, any
technology actively collecting dust gets called “legacy hardware.” It should be, and likely will be taken to the local Staples or Best Buy to be recycled. Technology changes very fast. In a year’s time, a new cell phone can exceed the capabilities of last year’s top computer. Nothing lasts; everything changes. Yet, here I am.
