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I’m in the process of taking notes on the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee before reading their latest book that provides prescriptions on what kind of skills you need for the machine age. The Second Machine Age book has a lot of great materials and a chapter on what we…
We’re on our third year with our automated operational reporting, which has been rolled out to both sides of the house. It kind of gives me a secret thrill to think that once a week, everyone comes in to work in the morning, opens up the file and lets the program do its magic. And if they…
I did something I have never seen done before: I created a self-correcting spreadsheet. In the last few weeks I’ve been working on generating a solution to pull together and print out state government regulations, covering certain topics such as minimum wage, meal and rest breaks, overtime, etc. My company probably pays to receive this data from…
About two or three years ago, I read a shocking article that about 1/4 of the American populace believed the sun revolves around the Earth. I wondered who were answering the question: uneducated immigrants…or young kids…or…? How was the question posed? The who stood out in my mind. Now, about a week ago, I read…
The last post talked about the distressing situation in the rural areas where little jobs are to be found and where a lot of the poor whites can be found. The residents subsist on disability checks and are often addicted to pills. And they all can’t find jobs. So how does one stay out of this…
This is so distressing. Here are two articles about the rural poor trying to “survive” on whatever money they can get. One family relies on disability checks and the other on begging (and possibly selling drugs). This article is about 4 generations on disability checks. The first generation, the father, got injured. The second generation, the…