PI Day

3.14.15 PI Day

Okay, I can’t let the day go by without referencing to the fact that today is PI day. There are some constants that appears in numerous situations and formulas and PI is one of them. I wish I had saved an article I read today where it mentioned an equation that held all of the…

Something Different

Something New

Well, there’s a new in thing going around, or is at least more successful than I would have thought. On Thursday, we had a team building event where we got together to paint at Pinot’s Palette. Yep, painting. It appears that folks are enamored of painting, so Pinot’s Palette has “classes” where an artist guides…

So Called Skills Gap

The So Called Skills Gap

This is not a topic about anything related to numbers such as finance, math or excel but more about the current social environment we have right now. Companies have been complaining that there is a skills gap and that is why open positions remain open for a long time. But that doesn’t make sense because…

Patience

We no longer have patience

In this age of instant gratification, we no longer have patience. We talk about efficiency and speed and at the same time talk about 10,000 hours and discipline. But I think the efficiency has won out because the number 2 item businesses focus on (number 1 being shareholder value) is efficiency. But sometimes you have…

This is NOT Free
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This is NOT Free

It’s amazing how big companies want to use people’s work for free. Today I read an article about a science fiction writer who was asked by Warner if they could use his interview for free.  (A Scathing, Brutally Honest Rant About Not Working for Free BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY | FRI, NOV 14 http://pulse.me/s/36dx9F ) Earlier I…

Data Breaches

Data Breaches – There’s an Awful Lot of ‘Em

There’s a lot of bad actors in this world. They range from the infantile teenagers to the truly malicious. The latest set of news are about the massive breach at JPMorgan, which, being a financial firm, would have one of the strongest set of security plans in place and yet, they’ve been hacked. This means just about everybody is…