My Musings

  • New Hiring Criteria

    One of the tech titans at Davos says tech companies need to change their hiring strategy if they want to have continued success. Ginni Rometty of IBM, noting the anger of people around the world, says that tech companies need to hire on skills, not just degrees. “The CEO said that technology’s fast-moving pace here…

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    Redesign Project

    Short post today but I forgot to mention yesterday that I am working on redesigning the visual format of some things for work. They are just superficial visual effects but I want to tie in with the new branding effort the company has undertaken. (I’d discuss more about the rebranding effort but I don’t think…

  • Started My Personal Project

    Well, I’m going to have to temper my expectation of certain things happening. Already, some things haven’t happened as I had hoped so I may have to change my plans. For now, I’m going to progress on my personal project so I have begun reading the HTML, CSS and Javascript for Dummies. Out of that,…

  • 2019 Plans

    For 2019 I’m hoping to learn a couple of new things as well as continue posting here and continue practicing drawing and painting and trying to be creative. My plans may be a lot to chew on since everything takes so much time and things never come out as I hoped. I have 3, maybe…

  • Purpose-Driven

    For some reason, I find corporate discussions about “purpose” nauseating. I read the book “Start with Why” by Simon Sinek and it made a lot of sense that truly successful companies have to have a purpose beyond just making money. I could see why “purpose” became popular with the millennials after the Great Recession, but…