Over the last three weekends, my wife and I celebrated our birthdays and our anniversary. We are also in the third season of the year, autumn, with September, October, and November marking the transition from summer to winter, and we have now put three business quarters of 2026 behind us. Adding to the theme, I…

A client recently came back to me with a question about something that had come up during an earlier meeting. My first thought was that I needed to go back and look at the meeting where this started. Not because I was trying to figure out how to justify additional work, but because I wanted…

One of the things I have been thinking about lately is what happens when experience, new technology, and the next generation of technology professionals come together. That thought has come up several times over the past few days. Interestingly, artificial intelligence has been part of both conversations. I wrote recently about my growing use of…

Sometimes it takes a change in perspective to see something that was there all along. Today, August 25, 2026, marks one year since I filed the paperwork with the North Dakota Secretary of State to form Vogel Consulting LLC. The filing was approved on August 28, 2025, and I officially launched the business on October…

It has been a little over two months since my last post here. Two months does not sound like much on a calendar. But this stretch held more living, more loss, and more clarity than some years do. I want to walk through it because I think the thread running through these experiences matters more…