Chase Raz
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Chase Raz is a Professor and Consultant who is currently working on ideating, incubating, and scaling his own businesses ventures.
I stopped by Walt Disney World on the way home from work today. The purpose was just to spend some time around the property without being at the parks. Don’t feel bad for me, I’m taking the family to the parks tomorrow, but I just needed some alone time to walk around other destinations. My […]
A view into an office building from afar I’ve been feeling a little bit disregarded and disrespected recently in ways that I won’t address directly. This experience, however has led me to be quite keen on detecting when others are also being disregarded or disrespected. I teach, I consult, and I provide corporate training… I […]
I normally wouldn’t publish anything about the creation of my projects. Mainly because my project ideation is almost always spontaneous and never meticulously planned like I’m doing for this so-called Disney Project. Also, because I’m not really a fan of talking about things I’m going to do like I used to be as a kid […]
For a number of years now, I’ve told myself that I’m going to update my graphics card and move from a two-monitor setup to a three-monitor setup. Up to this point, I’ve been thwarted by unexpected expenses, indecision on desired specs, and a general laziness surrounding any in-depth work on my custom rig PC. Unexpected […]
Have you read anything about the new AMD Threadripper 2990WX? It has 32 processing cores. That’s right, 32 cores in a non-server setting. I… want… one. Will I buy one? Well, not yet. Here’s why: In my production rig, ROI (Return on Investment) is a major factor, and I can’t yet justify the cost. This […]
So, I’m way behind the curve alright?! Today marks my first adventure with PC water cooling, and I’m equal parts frustrated, embarrassed, and overjoyed. I’ll tackle each of these parts one-by-one within this brief piece on why you shouldn’t be overlooking liquid cooling. Frustrated To fan or not to fan? Well, we all know the […]
I took the “Disney” menu item off of this site. I don’t quite know what this means, if anything, other than I don’t want the menu item thrown in with some of my other topics for which I’m more professionally known. Yes, my Disney project will be a professional creative work. Yes, I’m proud to […]
Over the past week or so, I’ve been setting up a HDHomeRun device to stream live over-the-air (OTA) television across my home network. Okay, really, I spent five minutes setting up the HDHomeRun, about a day playing with recording settings in Plex for DVR capability, and almost every other annoying minute fighting with antennas. As […]
You’ve been fed a bunch of lies about economics. My question to you is, “What do the ketogenic diet and economics have to do with one another?” It’s meant as a rhetorical question, of course, because I’m already aware of the answer and I’m eager to share it with you. What they have in common […]
Thanksgiving isn’t just about giving thanks. It’s also about reflecting upon the very act of giving thanks. In order to go to such a meta level, one must inquire about a given situation and deep-dive into its specific components and their constitution. For instance: what was involved in bringing an event to pass, who was […]