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I haven’t heard anything more about the outcome of Gravity Payment’s experiment of raising salaries to the minimum of $70,000 but Seth Godin did weigh in on what he thought is going on with the two best employees quitting because people were getting raises even if they didn’t earn it, or at least produce as…
I read an article yesterday that discusses the unemployment rate and what it really means. Right now, it stands at about 5% and the net number of hiring in November was around 211K. On the surface, those numbers sound really great but a number of writers have pointed out that if you include those who…
After spending 4 or 5 weeks on developing ideas for a dashboard for an upcoming huge project, I finally have a rudimentary dashboard. With that experience behind me, here are some ideas of what to do when you are given a project to pull together something. 1. If you can, find out what the goal is. In my…
I’m still reading the book Future Smart and I’m reading chapter “Chapter 13: Reinventing Education – the Future of Learning”. He does the usual lamenting of the dire state of education and how it is not preparing children for the new technological future. He forecasts a future of nations falling behind and its people mired…
The girl is really a live human who just happens to have a 1000 mile stare. She is not a robot, although I have been reading articles where in the future, robots will come close to being indistinguishable from humans. The day that happens is the beginning of the end of humans. Apparently, there is…
Well, they are here. Last night I was reading an article about a marketing guy saying he had an uncomfortable conversation with his financial planner: he was going to give his business to a robo planner. Some statistics were quoted in the article that the robo planners were costing between .20& to .80% of the…
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