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This week was another one of those discouraging week – I couldn’t really solve anything useful and everything takes me so long.I keep encountering the need to create a list of the most common phrases – not words, phrases – such as unit names or vendor names, etc. Every time I do a data download,…
This is going to be a short one, covering various subjects. First of all, this is one of those weeks where everything I do takes too long, I don’t seem to learn quickly enough or nothing works. This past week I have been trying to do some analysis but nothing is registering. On Thursday and…
Wow, the bad behavior from Wells Fargo is just astonishing.This is why we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is why we need the Dodd Frank Act. The lure of money is too great for the Wall Street types to resist. And yet, some members of Congress wants to get rid of the Bureau…
This is going to be a short post because I already lost twice what I’ve written and I’m tired of it.I just want to say that the drug crisis has so much tragedy that it may be a factor in fueling the political rage.For the point of this post, the pharma industry has been lobbying…
At work, I’ve been working on sifting through data to see if there is anything we should be aware of or could use. I’ve encountered some new kinds of problems on arranging the data, so I’ve been Googling a lot lately. These Googles have led me to an interesting page at Exceljet that shows some unusual…
Today’s post is going to be different. I’m going to talk about my creative process for doing art and compare it against my problem solving process for work. Art is really not about problem solving, despite what the designers say, but there are some very rough and broad similar approaches in creativity, at least when…