Two topics: hurricane weather and the need to double check your Excel results.
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Two topics: hurricane weather and the need to double check your Excel results.

This post is going to be very short because I have a headache, probably from lack of sleep over worry about this storm. We’re supposed to have tremendous amount of flooding over the weekend – between 15 -20 inches.  The weather is coming in via hurricane and it is supposed to stall in our area for…

Rural Areas See No Job Growth Since 2007
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Metropolitan Areas versus Rural: Job Growth is Concentrated in Metropolitan Areas

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…

Letting Your Intuition or Unconscious Do the Work for You
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Letting Your Intuition or Unconscious Do the Work for You

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…