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I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been trying to first finish up things that I’ve been procrastinating – deal with them first before doing any post. Yesterday, I finished one of those things and have one more left. At work I’ve been trying to develop a video training of the automated work and…

The Paul Krugman at NY Times had an analysis about the debt situation in Puerto Rico which left me thinking it’s a lot similar to what individuals face. Puerto Rico has a debt situation because it can’t get an economy going. He asks a question: what should Puerto Rico be doing? He says Puerto Rico…

This is not my typical post about finance, math, Excel or data but something else. There are two terms that I see a lot of in various articles or websites and I am sick of them for different reasons. The first is “I am passionate about…” or “my passion is to…”. The word passion or…

For some reason, “A rising tide lifts all boats” popped into my head recently. Followed by “you must have a boat to begin with.” Or, rising tide raises the wealthy yachts so high into rarefied air that they are no longer in touch with the regular folks. You are no longer a person of value. (Still trying…

This past week my boss and I have been working together on the budget file, in preparation for the budget season. There’s a lot of talk in the news, especially in the career section, about the need to be able to collaborate, and that’s exactly what we did the past week. She has extensive knowledge…