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Author Archives: Tom Trimbath
A Perfectly Imperfect Equinox
Oh, well. That’s close enough. My house has a Stonehenge moment every equinox, almost. On the equinox, the sun hits the horizon due west, putting it over a point of land across Cultus Bay called Scatchet Head. As it sets … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Facebook, frugal, frugality, personal finance, Scotland, Simple Living
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Upscaling Whidbey
Those photos are mine. Well, they’re now the property of the WiFire Coffee Bar, the place where I’ll be part of an Economic Development Think Tank tonight. The setting is sweet (and artistically decorated, in my opinion.) The title is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, consulting, Curbed, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, high speed Internet, housing, investing, jobs, Langley, personal finance, photos, real estate, Simple Living, Vancouver, virtual reality, wealth, Whidbey, Zestimate, zillow
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Asterias May Have One Success
One of my smaller investments had good news. It appears they’ve been able to regrow severed nerves. One of their trial patients has regained use of his arms. Amidst the cautions layered around investments and health care news it was … Continue reading
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Tagged AST, Asterias, clinical trials, FDA, health care, innovation, investing, LTBH, optimism, personal finance, Stem cells, stocks
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Five Years From September 2016
The following post will be the straight line of a joke where we get to hear the punch line five years later. I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a conversation and series of meetings about the economic sustainability … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printing, artists, coworks, culture, digital singularity, economics, environment, Great Recession, housing, infrastructure, jobs, organic farming, pension, quantitative easing, Retirement, Second Great Depression, small town, society, virtual reality
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Almost A Day Off
Pardon me as I type a few words and then step aside to mix a drink. – OK. I almost took today off. Grand plans. Gods laughing. You probably know how it is. I recently resolved to take at least … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, frugal, frugality, hiking, personal finance, PNTP, Shakespeare, Simple Living, Steve Smolinsky, Washington Cascades, Whidbey, writing
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Selecting a Catalog Management System
Originally posted on HCLE Virtual Museum – the blog:
Selecting a Catalog Management System: A Make-Versus-Buy Case Study We recently completed a comparison of about two dozen software packages in an attempt to meet our museum’s needs for an asset, collection,…
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Whidbey Writers Workshop 2016
Well, someone’s got to do it and it might as well be me. I suspect that’s the line that’s gone through the minds of so many entrepreneurs and artists. Sometimes the best way to get an idea started is to … Continue reading
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Tagged books, coworks, Deborah Nedelman, Earth_Fit, ebooks, entrepreneur, Jo Meador, Just Keep Pedaling, Langley, modern self-publishing, Molly Cook, NILA, Pattie Beaven, print on demand, Sean Keeley, self publishing, Whidbey, Whidbey Writers Workshop, WIWA, WIWC, writing, Wynn Allen
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A Typically Atypical Trimbath Workday
One of the hardest questions for me, and I suspect other members of the Gig Economy to answer is, “So, what do you really do?” Even the simple version of the correct answer takes too long. The polite answer is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1099 Economy, Art, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, Facebook, Gig Economy, jobs, personal finance, PNTP, Pretending Not To Panic, self publishing, social media, Twitter, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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