My Musings

  • Twisted Foot, Twisted Week

    Okay, this week was not a good week. I’ve been working on a plan to move our macro files from Dropbox to SharePoint with an eye towards maintaining simplicity of reporting process. Most of the macro works except at the point of creating a new file and saving it: saving in SharePoint does not quite…

  • We All Have Choices

    Did you read about Sofi’s choice? No, not the book Sophie’s Choice but about the 3-year-old girl with a heart condition being asked by the Border Patrol to make a choice as to which parent will proceed into the US with her. Folks, we are not in fiction anymore – we’ve leapt from fiction to…

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    Power BI and Design

    I’m running into a tension between a one-page design versus a design with white space. White space is supposed to ease the eye flow around visuals and tables but it does create space. I get the idea of one pagers and usually strive for that, but if the lettering is too small, maybe it would…

  • Innovation and Efficiency

    A week or so ago a McKinsey article on innovation popped up in my LinkedIn feed. It’s an old article but probably still relevant today. It’s the usual lament about how difficult it is to innovate. My opinion is that innovation flies in the face of today’s efficiency paradigm. Being innovative or creative is very…