This site under reconstruction.
Part 1 of the ACA is finished – the paper forms are being printed to be mailed out. This year it was more painful than usual because we changed our payroll provider in the middle of the year. Oh boy that was painful. Now I’m on to the next step.
I will still be working long days because there is another hurdle.
This post will be different than normal but it is something I’ve been interested in since high school when I first learned about WWII. When I learned about the Nazis and their effort to exterminate the Jews, I was horrified. How can an entire nation descend into such atrocity? What propelled them to do this?…
According to Mark Cuban, the one skill you will need in ten years after the artificial intelligence invasion has begun is creativity. Just one. Not a list of skills but just one. And he has pooh-poohed the coding skills because software will be able to code itself. Think about that: he’s discounting all other skills…
There’s been a lot of news about freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her possibly overheated comments. I don’t know whether she is anti-Semite or not or whether she is moving the Democratic Party toward Corbynism. I’m actually kind of clueless about anti-Semitism, despite reading a lot of books about World War II and the Nazis….
Right at the beginning of the year, when everyone were making resolutions, Daniel Pink, who apparently got the quote from Neil Gaiman, came with everyone should be making mistakes: “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things,…
I read an article in the New York Times, about a week or so ago, about how the rural areas saw a devastating collapse of job growth since the Great Recession (but I would almost think it began around 2000 when wages started flattening out). The author, Thomas Edsall, usually writes about psychological insights into people…
I know Milton Friedman mainly for his idea that the purpose of business is to maximize profits over anything else and ignore the “good for the community” stuff. Companies should stay away from considering the welfare of all stakeholders other than the shareholder. Profit maximization at all costs – rah rah rah. I’ve yet to…
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