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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 3K354: Freedom To Repair

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“Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored, just like the other one!”

If you are a DIY-er, you already know that not everything can be fixed by you, or any of us, unless we are an “authorized repair person/service”.  Manufacturers are able to keep us out of their devices and machinery through copyright law protections.  In this past year, Apple finally opened up and now (if we are technical enough) can make some of our own repairs to the Apple product suite.  Other companies will invalidate the warranty if we try to do it ourselves.  This might change soon if Congress passes the Right to Repair Act at the Federal level. Some states have already made the change.  There is still money to be made as manufacturers now can sell the parts, the tools and the manuals.  And why wouldn’t that be the better approach? I have learned that when I fix something I own there is a certain amount of gratification and pride that comes from the resolution through my own hands.  This can endear us to the product versus just thinking about it as just another pain and expense to be dealt with.

Thank you God for giving us the ultimate right to repair ourselves through You! We break each and every day and without what You provide with Your mercy, grace and forgiveness, along with Your Word that can act as manual for our life, we would be lost and beyond fixing.  Let us today humble ourselves to You to once again be restored and repaired.

Reference: Matthew 12:13 (New Living Translation)