There are phrases I hear all the time when chatting about amusement parks and rollercoasters. Maybe all of that is (or was) true, but there’s a hard reality that gets overlooked far too often… nostalgia is not enough! In a previous blog (The Lines Tell the Entire Story), I talked about how the lines (or […]
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Incomplete on Purpose: Nothing Said, Everything Implied!
I think we are all experiencing a quirk of modern advertising and communications that is spreading like an epidemic. This existence is not random as advertisers and influencers are smart, primed, and devious. This pattern I am writing about in this blog shows up in traditional media, political ads, leadership messaging, online marketing, social media, […]
SoCal’s Vanished Experiences from 2020–2023
The other day, I was driving down Fletcher Parkway in La Mesa, California and passed by the old Souplantation location, just off of the 125. That sport was one of my favorite buffet locations, along the one in Misson Valley on Mission Gorge Road. In that moment, I was caught off guard with nostalgia, and […]
The Lines (or Queues) Tell the Entire Story
There’s a moment every coaster enthusiast recognizes and that is whether we’re consciously thinking about the subject or not. We walk into a theme or amusement park, then glance up at the skyline, and start scanning our peepers across the view. This is not to find the tallest structure or the newest paint job, but […]
Stakeholders Want to Be Heard, Include Them in Discovery
There’s a critical phase in every project that often determines whether things will move forward with clarity or slowly unravel into rework and frustration. It happens before timelines are committed, before designs take shape, and well before development begins. That phase is discovery. And in my experience, one of the most overlooked truths during this […]