Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Ever­note, you are so close to per­fect yet so far away. I am still search­ing for the per­fect all in one note app and I keep falling short. Every time I think I can make this my go to app I find another flaw that moves it out of the realm of my work­flow. I’ve […]

Yes­ter­day I had to stop by Home Depot to pick up a part for my refrig­er­a­tor. I bought one item and received nearly 36 inches of receipt!  A large por­tion was the logo, the phone num­ber and address fol­lowed by a  line of aster­isks, the actual trans­ac­tion and a huge sec­tion ded­i­cated to a sur­vey. Why do I […]

In the embed­ded CNN story we find another per­son mis­us­ing the 911 sys­tem to solve a seem­ingly insignif­i­cant prob­lem. Our first reac­tion is to prob­a­bly laugh or think what is wrong with this per­son but I think it’s the sign of a larger prob­lem. Embed­ded video from CNN Video We need a stan­dard­ized nation­wide non–emergency […]