Exploratory

  • Disruptive Future

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and according to IBM’s CEO, 100% of jobs will change over the next 10 years. She doesn’t say jobs will be eliminated; she says they will change. So we gotta get cracking on reskilling. The source of the change will be analytics and artificial intelligence – not a surprise…

  • Rebranding Exercise

    A few months ago, probably last year, I did a post on the fact our company did a rebranding exercise that refreshed their logo but at the time I didn’t think the company was ready to announce to the work its new look. The website wasn’t even set up yet. But in the last few…

  • Random Thoughts

    [This is stream of consciousness writing – no attempt to be eloquent.] I’ve been working late most nights and most weekends on the ACA so this is the first weekend in a while where work is not part of the agenda. This past week I had gotten to the point where I was so tired…

  • Bigotry, Hate and Fear

    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….

  • Updates On My Projects

    A little update on what’s been going on, aside from the ACA reporting. At the moment I’m waiting for the TCC and software codes before I can do the software testing. I’ve prepped all of the files so that as soon as I get those codes, I can do the testing. It should be any…