Bill Kracke

Bill Kracke

I am a husband to one, father to two, friend to a few, and geek to most.

GHDR26: 03.03 CheckIn

GHDR 2026

Do you know that haunting feeling when you know you have correctly implemented part of some advice, but that you may be forgetting another important bit? Welcome to my first GHDR update! That bit of advice/instruction that I gleefully ignored/glossed over/forgot? James…

GHDR 2026: The Kickoff

GHDR 2026

As I sat down to write this post, my first sentence started with “for more than a decade…” And I thought to myself, “No, that can’t be right.” Turns out … For more than a decade, I have watched my…

So You’re Working From Home?

Three weeks ago, hardly any of us were aware of COVID-19. Toilet paper was easy to find. We didn’t sing songs while washing our hands. And then someone told you that you’d be working from home for the foreseeable future.…

The Unrelenting Pressure That I Place On Myself

That familiar feeling was back: my chest tightened a little bit; my focus fragmented into a million directions; my anxiety began to climb. And the voice in my head sternly reprimanded me – “You’re doing it AGAIN! You’ve wasted your…

Life Lessons from a Notebook

Black moleskine

One of the things that I am planning to nerd out about more on my professional website (when I finally get that sucker done) is productivity and such, but I had some personal revelations recently that felt more at home…

Waiting is Hard

Bat child
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I’ve had a paralyzed vocal chord for 69 days. I had surgery to remove a potato sized mass in my chest that was compressing my windpipe and threatening to close off my airway eventually. It was an involved surgery —…