This site under reconstruction.
(Re-posting because I had trouble accessing the post. Original entry was around May 9th.) Two weeks ago, I created a cool, nifty spreadsheet to do most of the heavy lifting. Previously, I used to download 2 sets of data, one from the prior week and one for the current week, and try to look at…
I’ve been fortunate enough that I can add some play into my work and still be accomplishing things. For instance, the early part of the week was discouraging as we got pressure to go manual in our reporting process. It was said that somebody in the field actually said, “Well, it worked the last week…
Last week I found out that somebody was backfilling for two other people and therefore, was running three reports. If I hadn’t automated the report, she wouldn’t have been able to do that. It’s pretty exciting to be able to cut down the time drastically, but it is also scary. Fewer people will be required…
I’m back on that project where we are asset manager of a bunch of failing properties that were under bankruptcy. I think we were brought in as part of the deal between one of the investors and the owner of the properties. The first go round, which was back in November, was to review some…
About two weeks ago I was working on a project where we had to analyze the budgets for 30 properties to make sure they were realistic and contained nothing unusual. This was very sudden and we had about a week to go through all of the files and make sense of the historical data as…
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about people solving hard problems such as saving the world, eliminating poverty, solving climate change. These are BIG, HAIRY problems that won’t be easily eradicated. Most of us don’t deal with stuff like this. But we all do work on hard problems, just on a smaller scale. Right now…
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