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Our vendor did it again: the data format changed – basically, the columns shifted – so that my formulas did not pull in the right numbers or any numbers at all. None of the 60+ files worked. Fortunately I quickly spotted the issue (and some of the managers are getting comfortable with numbers and excel…
Doesn’t it feel good when you come up with an ingenious solution to a problem? A couple of posts ago I mentioned that our data source changed which led to my macro breaking. I’ve been working on some fixes and thought I was very close to finishing when I found out some major changes were…
Dan Price was the man who gave up his one million salary so his employees could have a living wage of at least $70K Now it’s 3 years later. How is Dan’s company doing?
I finally finished The Smartest Places on Earth by Antoine van Agtmal. My overall impression is that in areas that used to have a large manufacturing base, they are starting to revive by moving up the skills ladder: medical, biotechnology, materials science, technology, etc; hence the name smart cities. The revival is also heavily predicated…
According to Mark Cuban, the one skill you will need in ten years after the artificial intelligence invasion has begun is creativity. Just one. Not a list of skills but just one. And he has pooh-poohed the coding skills because software will be able to code itself. Think about that: he’s discounting all other skills…
Last week Facebook’s stock nosedived by more than $100 billion and now shareholders want Mark Zuckerberg out due to his mishandling of crises that have been popping up over the last year. Do shareholders now have a social conscience? Um, no. Did the shareholders care about the election meddling when we all learned that the…