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Systems

Automating Customer Support

Sep 25, 2026

This morning, AI took our order at a drive-through. At the window, it was a human. A small example of where automation may be...

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Aunt AI

Dec 1, 2025

Over the past few weeks I served as the middle person to AI-generated responses. Today, I bridged that gap on my mom and aunt's...

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Lifestyle medicine

Leveraging Nature

Nov 27, 2025

Over the past three years I've transitioned from prescriptive medicine to lifestyle medicine, one in which health is the foundation of living. This has...

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What Makes a Cover Letter

Dec 10, 2023

A cover letter for a job tells a story to the interviewing committee why they should proceed to the resume. This is what I’ve...

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Reporting Quadrant

Dec 4, 2023

This afternoon I observed a conversation between a business owner and an employee. The conversation centered on updates, taskers, and what is expected

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CEO Management Assessment

Dec 3, 2023

During the Stanford GSB LBAN Program Latino entrepreneurs benefit from several, incuding learning, network, mentor, and assessment with key data points to help you...

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Bloom, Learn to Invest App

Dec 2, 2023

When one of my twins, Citlali, mentioned this afternoon she wanted to learn how to invest, alongside Crunchbase, Morningstar and Robinhood, I thought about...

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Strategy AI

Dec 1, 2023

Alongside human resource officer I was being encouraged to go into a very specific functional area called 59, or an Army Strategists

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Value of Time and Time Decay

Nov 30, 2023

Picture this. You drive almost an hour to a function only to arrive and quickly decide about the opportunity cost and time decay. I...

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How to Change Date Time in Jekyll

May 3, 2023

A few days ago I posted about my grandfather’s passing and shared it. Unfortunately the link, https://davidcmolina. com/2023/05/01/eusebio-lopez-chevio-flores-dies-at-90/ broke as soon as May 2nd...

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God Speed Adam Mayer

Mar 31, 2018

This morning Oregon lost an American patriot— unexpectedly. We had just broke bread this past Wednesday at my Campaign Kick-Off. A fellow Republican PCP,...

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Tech Inclusion Seattle

Jun 14, 2017

This morning I traveled to Seattle, Wa. to be on a panel at Tech Inclusion Seattle. The focus of the event: creating solutions to...

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Counting My Lucky Stars

Jun 13, 2017

Today, I had the privilege to accompany my oldest daughter on her last field trip of her 3rd grade to Fernhill Wetlands. Earlier this...

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Speaking At Tech Jobs Tour Seattle

May 23, 2017

This Wednesday afternoon, I’ll be speaking at Tech Jobs Tour Seattle during the evening and probably before the 3rd Chief Technology Officer of the...

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What I'm Doing Now

Apr 30, 2017

Every so often I’m asked what I’m doing now. These questions come from friends and/or family and they arrive through Facebook messenger or email...

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Scaling an Idea

Apr 26, 2017

So whatever the case, whatever the pain– solve the pain for a customer. Figure out what type of structure you’d like to solve the...

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David Molina at 38

Apr 8, 2017

I don’t pretend to know all the answers, and will fail many times before finding them, but I won’t settle for status quo or...

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Blog Migration Complete

Jan 2, 2017

Anyone who’s ever tried blogging knows what a pain it is to write and publish their work, and own their work. A few years...

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Happy New Year Everyone

Jan 1, 2017

Happy New Year Everyone. We arrived late this evening from a weekend in Mount Vernon, Washington (Skagit Valley) visiting mom, sisters, nephews and nieces....

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Happy Christmas Eve

Dec 24, 2016

Honestly, it’s my favorite part of the day. So far we’ve not cut any wood today (we have plenty), but tons of time playing...

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Ruby on Rails PDX

Sep 21, 2016

Not certain if it was recorded. Will update this post with link if it becomes avail

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Leveraging 1Password

Jun 26, 2016

In a world where teams work remotely, in a decentralized operating environment, where you have to trust in your team to get things done...

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Post-ThinkMujer Summit Portland

Jun 17, 2016

Like anyone that attended this year’s ThinkMujer Summit at the University of Portland, I was impressed and in awe that 200 Latina professionals, bilingual...

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Paint the Picture

Apr 13, 2016

Writing is hard. I’ll admit it’s not easy and it’s painful trying to get the words just right. Years ago, at a migrant student...

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Overcoming Care

Apr 12, 2016

Over the weekend, I took our daughters to Henry Hagg Lake to hike and get away from our computers. During our visit we saw...

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Balancing Family and Work

Apr 8, 2016

Today, my better half, Edith, departed to Eastern Oregon on a small chartered plane as part of her consulting work. The client had been...

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Full Descriptive Biographies

Apr 7, 2016

I had a huge and pivotal morning meeting in downtown, Portland. Literally. The meeting was about something that doesn’t exist, that will exist, and...

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Hurry Up and Wait

Apr 6, 2016

Portland is warming up fast. 72 here today. This morning on the way to work we saw a drone flying over the Forest Grove...

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Adios to 2012

Dec 31, 2012

This past year will go down personally as one of the most nurturing, rewarding and educational years. Our little family continued to grow

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Hack Because You Can

Jun 26, 2012

I just returned from 3 nights, 4 days in New York City for my first Hackathon. While I didn’t join any of the teams...

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The Eleventh Hour

Apr 9, 2011

This week the stress for almost every American reached new heights, be it in Oregon serving in the National Guard or Reserves to serving...

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The Best Oregon Co-Pilot Ever

Feb 20, 2011

This evening, I bid farewell to Edith’s dad, my father-in-law, former-Pastor Juan Quiroz at BWI. After trekking nearly 3,000 miles cross-country from Oregon to...

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A Legislative Agenda.

Feb 5, 2011

Over the past few months, I’ve received a ton of correspondence, messages and phone calls for legislative agenda this or that. Sure, the legislative...

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Hiring at BilingualHire.

Feb 1, 2011

Who knew the need for bilingual (Spanish/English) temporary staff was high in demand. In late November either everyone was on Thanksgiving-Christmas-Holiday mode or were...

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Blessings large and small.

Dec 25, 2010

Yesterday, Edith and I participated in Christmas Eve service at Iglesia Christiana Universal Apostolica de Jesus Pentecostes of the Dalles. This church was founded...

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Roberto Maestas, RIP carnal.

Sep 22, 2010

Today, the clients, staff, board, and friends of El Centro de La Raza, a Seattle community-based organization mourned the lost of its co-founder and...

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Ribs. Now. Happy 4th.

Jul 4, 2010

Today, our familia celebrates the 4th. Family from The Dalles to friends from Stockton, and Portland, we enjoy some cold ones, carne asada, salsa...

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The America that could be

May 2, 2010

HispanicPundit calls it a “great post. ” My latest post over “where La Raza dishes about political leadership & contemporary issues” titled, “The America...

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Maya defies the weather

May 1, 2010

Over the past week our daughter, Maya, has been feeling under the weather. It’s been difficult as parents trying to get some shuteye, but...

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Educate Conference Aftermath

Feb 19, 2010

On February 10, 2010 over 350+ Latino students converged onto Portland State University (PSU) for MEChA’s Edúcate Conference. In lieu of accepting the keynote...

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The Value of Service

Nov 3, 2009

Over at Latino Politics blog, I explain the importance of public service and why it is important to serve. As many of you know,...

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Visit to Medford, Oregon

Oct 25, 2009

Friday, October 16th, I attended my quarterly meeting with fellow Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs-OCHA commissioners quarterly meeting in Medford, Oregon. The one-day visit...

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Gabriel Garcia Obituary

Oct 9, 2009

Gabriel Garcia (3/21/1979 - 10/1/2009), the most recent victim of Thymic cancer left us, all too soon, on Thursday, October 1st at 8:04 p....

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Open Content Education

Sep 30, 2009

I was glad to read in this month’s edition of Fast Company Magazine in “Who Needs Harvard “ an explanation as to the movement...

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Website Made Simple?

Sep 24, 2009

I’m setting up a Posterous account after reading Jason Calacanis’s Posterous page. And after browsing the different people (Sacca, Chris Brogan, etc) who have...

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