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I’m on a reading binge (sort of) and right now I just finished reading Making It In America by John Bassett and Ellis Henican. It’s about a furniture manufacturing firm based in Virginia and North Carolina and what the firm did to stay in America rather than outsourcing production to China. Based upon my readings…
I read a book – The Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance – which is very distressing. It’s a story about how some people sink into poverty and worse, but others rise out of the poverty. It’s distressing because sometimes it’s a matter of luck which family you are born into. It’s distressing because if you…
What will we do when about 50% or more of the population are without jobs?Reference pic: Pixabay/Leroy Skalstad I finally finished the book Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford. He offers a possible solution to the coming massive unemployment. But first, let’s list some of the common suggested solutions: Make education affordable, especially college…
I finished the book The Rise of Robots by Martin Ford. I want to talk about something that is self-evident but needs repeating. I already talked about the chapter on “White Collar Jobs at Risk” and I’m going to skip the chapters on “Transforming Higher Education” (basically about MOOCs), “The Health Care Challenge” and “Technologies…
[These last two weeks have been convention time so I have not been very productive. I’m still in the midst of revamping my “About Me” page and I’m stuck on one of the sections. In addition, I’m still trying to do my drawings but this time with a story plot. So with the “About Me”…
This is a very short post. I just wanted to say what I’m reading now. I’m reading a book right now, Good Charts by Scott Berinato. It’s a beautiful book that discusses the theory of what makes a good chart and how to go about making good charts. I’m in the section talking about the…