This site under reconstruction.
I’m currently reading a book about some tools for smarter thinking: Mindware by Richard Nisbett. In my last post (or two), I wrote about the second chapter where the main takeaway for me was you should consider the situation when evaluating why people act the way they do. Just relying on the “dispositional” characters of…
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk lately about fake news and conspiracy theories. People are believing some weird stuff such as the child porn ring at a Washington pizzeria that supposedly included Clinton folks. Then there are folks who don’t believe in the government data such as the unemployment rate. I get that they…
Today we found somebody fudging the numbers.Normally it’s hard to catch on to tricks but today my boss wanted to look at some trends for 2016 and she saw some stuff that looked weird. She asked me to investigate. She was wondering why a certain metric kept coming up as the same number for a…
Aaarrrggghhh!!! She overwrote the formulas with hard coded numbers and now the math is not working. She has left for a position that has better growth potential and I am happy for her. So I took back the automated reporting that she was handling. She was actually doing it very well, but I must remember…
This post is more of a thought post or “what if” post. It comes out of the whole Brexit thing which is very similar to the Trump thing but it also comes out of the future robotization of jobs. I was kind of wondering if those who voted for leaving the EU were on the…
During the next few weeks, there will probably be a slow down in posting and artwork because of 2 “must do” work projects. One is, of course, the ACA electronic submission and the other is a new project to develop a kind of analytical dashboard/reporting system.In regards to the ACA, I received feedback that there…