About Joe Hage

Joe Hage runs the largest Medical Devices Group on LinkedIn, a spam-free forum for intelligent conversations with medical device thought leaders.

Joe, why do you keep a blog?

I get this question surprisingly often. “I don’t get it,” they start. “Why do you keep a blog? I thought you liked your job.” “I do. Very much. I’m not looking.” “Then why do you keep a blog?” Read on for the answers.

Dear employer: I’m not perfect

I once had an interviewer ask me a question so direct that I had two choices: lie, or tell her an unfiltered, embarrassing truth.

I told the truth.

And I got the job — not in spite of my embarrassing admission but because of it. Read on.

The Art of Living

Every once in a while, someone enters your life and alters your path. Are you aware enough to know when it’s happening? (It might be happening right now, with this blog posting.) Shyam Nair altered my path. We met at StockPot, Campbell’s fastest growing division at the time, when I was Director of Marketing there. […]

OMG! It was so easy to set up a blog site!

The ‘blogging for kids’ concept for my children is a hit with my family. So it was time for me to figure out how to create a simple blog-based website from scratch. I started this article as I was learning how to set up a blog, to share it with you here. It seemed like […]

The Poor … by Zachary Hage, Age 6

What about the Poor? They have nothing to do. I give them toys. You know you have to do it sometimes. I give them toys because they don’t have any. Why don’t they have any toys? Because they don’t have enough money. I don’t know why they don’t have enough money. Or, maybe they just […]

Introducing Zachary and Lucas

Zach’s dad had an idea: What would it look like if a six-year-old had his own blog? What if his four-year-old brother helped? Would children want to read it? Would it be a destination site for parents to share with their children? We don’t know. But Zach’s excited about the idea. And once Luke catches […]