ACA – Finished Part 1 – the paper forms

The gorilla joke is either a great meme or “a sign of the imminent collapse of critical thought and public discourse”. New York Times, “Let’s Talk About the Gorilla Channel For One More Day”, Vivian Wang, 1/6/2018. There’s been a couple of articles on topics of social media, critical thinking and how to communicate with people…

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how “passion” was overused. Doing work that you are passionate about does not always lead to sustainable living. I’m of the belief that not only you have to love what you are doing but you have to talent for it and that there is a…

I wanted to add this news topic in my last post but then thought I needed to learn more to understand the new findings better. Here’s the link to the article with the provocative title that caught my eye: “Humans nearly went extinct 800,000 years ago”. Here’s another article that provides a little more scientific…

A couple of weeks ago I read this really interesting article about Facebook in the New York Times. The link does not go to New York Times since you may not have access to that article (it’s probably behind the paywall) but US News apparently can reprint – just be aware that the original source…

This post will be something different – it won’t be about Excel, math, data, programming or finance/accounting. It’s off the beaten path. Earlier in the week I saw a SlideShare about the hiring process. The author spoke about his experience with hiring and it was very uplifting. He has a different approach to hiring: for…

This week I did something new – something I have never been able to do before: I went to a convention. This convention was virtual and free and the free part was what allowed me to attend a convention. This was the Adobe Max convention so the topics covered art, design, social media, story telling,…