My Musings

  • Tiger Effect

    Normally, I don’t follow golf but last Sunday something remarkable happened. A lot of writers had hailed Tiger’s astounding victory at the Masters as something that will revive golf and will inspire many more people than when he won the Masters the first time around. This victory will be even more impactful. I tend to…

  • Avant-Garde Emails

    Well, maybe they are not avant-garde… A couple of months ago, I did a post on avant-garde Excels. This one is about avant-garde emails, although they are really not avant-garde per se, but they are unusual company emails in that people don’t usually do these visual types of emails. Why am I doing this? One,…

  • Capitalism’s Bad Behavior

    I think we kind of have some aspects of socialism already: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and possibly our education system for elementary, junior high and high school, our police force, our firemen, our road system. Our taxes pay towards these greater goods for society. Now I have to admit that I do conflate communism and…

  • Disruptive Future

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and according to IBM’s CEO, 100% of jobs will change over the next 10 years. She doesn’t say jobs will be eliminated; she says they will change. So we gotta get cracking on reskilling. The source of the change will be analytics and artificial intelligence – not a surprise…

  • Macro Trick

    At this point, I’ve been doing VBA programming long enough that I can “read” my codes and know a code line is supposed to be doing. More importantly, I’m starting to be able to “read” other snippets of codes, so that’s a nice accomplishment. So maybe I can call myself beginner/intermediate? In addition, I think…