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Month: June 2026

Feeling Every Pitch: My Journey with OneCourt — and the Day the Game Comes HomeA person’s hand interacts with a compact tactile device featuring a raised outline of a basketball court, with clearly defined lines and markings designed for touch, while a smartphone beside it displays a digital basketball court graphic; the brand name OneCourt appears in the top right corner against a clean, minimal background, demonstrating assistive sports technology for visually impaired users.

Feeling Every Pitch: My Journey with OneCourt — and the Day the Game Comes Home

Published June 15, 2026 by Dr. Kirk Adams

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams, blind since age five and a lifelong sports fan, shares the first time he felt a live game unfold beneath his hands, and why a new milestone from OneCourt is about to change the game for blind and low-vision fans everywhere. He traces his own path, from a childhood spent in gyms to a career advancing disability inclusion, and recounts the moment a tactile broadcast let him feel a pitch cross the plate in real time, at the very instant it happened.

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Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with James Dykstra, Founder, CodeStack SystemsPodcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams. A dark background features a blue circular icon on the left that contains a silhouette of a microphone. To the right, the word 'PODCASTS' is written in bold white uppercase letters inside a blue rounded rectangle. Below the rectangle, the text 'BY DR. KIRK ADAMS' is displayed in white uppercase letters. Two small blue sparkle icons add decorative elements to the design, one near the circle and one near the rectangle.

Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with James Dykstra, Founder, CodeStack Systems

Published June 9, 2026 by Dr. Kirk Adams

In this forward-looking episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, host Dr. Kirk Adams sits down with James Dykstra, founder of CodeStack Systems, to unpack why so many businesses are watching their AI initiatives stall, and what it actually takes to fix that. Dykstra traces his path from a childhood spent tinkering with DOS to finance and strategy roles at Amazon and Microsoft, then to co-founding a services firm built on the conviction that technology should improve lives. The central insight: companies rush to buy powerful AI tools, but those tools only magnify the gaps in fragmented, poorly tracked data. Using the analogy of a high-performance engine that is useless until it is connected to the rest of the vehicle, and of data as crude oil that must be extracted, refined, and piped before it can power anything, Dykstra explains CodeStack’s “work backwards” methodology: start with a client’s three-year vision, identify the tools and data required to reach it, and consolidate that data into a single platform rather than ripping out and replacing existing systems.

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