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The immense greed of this: constricting the ability of employees to find another job through non-compete clauses. And we are not talking about IT folks or scientists with high end technical skills or working on crucial, innovative products for the company. We’re talking about hair stylists, the folks making sandwiches, camp counselors. If you have…
There’s a lot of books and articles out there about the dangers of the Internet and the digital life. There may be a few about how exciting the future will be but those are overshadowed by the dire warnings. Let’s add one more: the dangers of getting out of touch with reality.We may be only in…
I’m currently reading a book about some tools for smarter thinking: Mindware by Richard Nisbett. In my last post (or two), I wrote about the second chapter where the main takeaway for me was you should consider the situation when evaluating why people act the way they do. Just relying on the “dispositional” characters of…
Yesterday, I read a bunch of articles about universities offering classes on computers, specifically coding classes. These classes are extremely popular and can sometimes carry a waiting list. The coding mania has even extended down to the elementary school level. So a lot of people are getting on the STEM train ride. In a few years,…
Today’s short post will be about one of the two books that I’m reading: Mindware. The book is supposed to give you tools for thinking intelligently and discusses ways people err. Thinking intelligently is going to be very important in this day and age of fake news. A lot of people are believing in conspiracy…
I’m pretty sure I’ve done a post about making mistakes, but since it’s been a while and since I’ve had two conversations with my boss about the topic, I think it’s time to revisit the topic of making mistakes because we see so many. There’s mistakes in grammar and spelling. There’s mistakes in keying in or…