{"id":118083,"date":"2025-04-15T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=118083"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:59:12","slug":"tuesday-night-nicks-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/04\/15\/tuesday-night-nicks-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – Nick’s in town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

My friend, mentor\u00a0 and hero , Nick D was in town today to give a talk at UVM about his book “If nothing Changes” . Nick always quotes his Italiean father who said “If nothing changes, nothing changes”>>\u00a0

Nick is a long time friend from IBM. I’ve known him for more than 30 years… He was once the site manager of our facility here in Vermont. He rose to being a Senior VP at IBM, the number 2 guy in IBM and leader of the 100K person technical community. He was essentially the godfather of all the technical leaders in IBM.\u00a0 \u00a0 I work with Nick pretty regularly as part of the National Academy of Engineering .. he acts as the de facto head of the IBM diaspora members of the NAE… .. Her’s also been a good mentor and freind.. I remember one time in 2009 , I was in NYC with Gabe at a snowboarding event. Nick called to encourage me to do the reality show… .. He’s been there for me and for so many other in the IBM community.\u00a0

So.. when I say I was exctied to see him.. it’s a rteal understatement \ud83d\ude42
I’ve seen Nick speak 100’s of times all over the world.. and it always feels\u00a0 fresh new and authentic.. todays talk was just that way. the packed audience of UVM students and faculty got a rare treat to see Nick speak.. he’s a great story teller.. ..\u00a0


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Fterwards, A bunch of us went out to eat at Waterworks in winooski. It’s where Diane and I had our rehearsa;l dinner. Nick’s son Mike was there too. Mike is a former Assistant Attorney General\u00a0 for the State of VT.. We’d never met, but it was amazing how many people we both new.. Classic VT small world story. I really enjoyed gettign to know him\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a fun croud with folks from UVM and Global FGOundaries.. Many freinds havign a good time over good food..\u00a0

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I guess if nothing changes…….\u00a0 \u00a0it can soemtimes be a good thing \ud83d\ude42\u00a0

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend, mentor\u00a0 and hero , Nick D was in town today to give a talk at UVM about his book “If nothing Changes” . Nick always quotes his Italiean father who said “If nothing changes, nothing changes”>>\u00a0 Nick is a long time friend from IBM. I’ve known him for more than 30 years… He … Continue reading Tuesday night – Nick’s in town<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118091,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118083\/revisions\/118091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}