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There are two things top of mind lately: the hurricane season and the election cycle. It’s hard to think of much of anything else. Hurricane Helene is making a beeline for the panhandle or Big Bend of Florida, looking like to hit Tallahassee squarely. This morning it was predicted to make landfall as a Cat…

“They are eating dogs!” From He-who-must-not-be-named, debate in Pennsylvania on September 10, 2024 And so, an insane season kicks off. I think it will be insane. Maybe it will quiet down. There were many notable moments in the debate but the one that most news reporters started off with was the one about immigrants eating…

My productivity took a hit this week. Or maybe I transformed one kind of productivity into another kind: so instead of doing stuff related to finance/data/Excel/AI, I did stuff more related to civics engagement. The impetus for that was the curiosity of how President Joe Biden was doing after removing himself from the race. The…

We’re in August so there are a couple of storms brewing over the horizon. Last week Debbie stormed over Florida out of the Atlantic and then stalled somewhere around Georgia/South Carolina/North Carolina, dumping buckets of rain and then traversed up along the East coast, bringing in floods. So, a hurricane formed out in the Atlantic…

A new year has begun. But I’m not looking forward to it because this year is projected to be a tense and crazy year, possibly even a consequential year. First, we have the Ukraine-Russian war still going on. It is amazing that the Ukrainians have been able to hold off the larger Russians but now…

I’m trying to relax during the last few days left of this year, but I’m still trying to do some planning for 2024. Yeah, I’m being lazy, and I see all of those people who are industrious. So, then I feel like I should continue to keep producing. One of the things I like to…