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[My Page Builder from Site Origin no longer works since the last WordPress update. I’m not happy! It makes it much harder to format and save these pages!] Are you trying to convince someone to your viewpoint and they just won’t buy it? You try providing facts and logic but it seems to be going…
I read an article in the New York Times, about a week or so ago, about how the rural areas saw a devastating collapse of job growth since the Great Recession (but I would almost think it began around 2000 when wages started flattening out). The author, Thomas Edsall, usually writes about psychological insights into people…
BP put this puzzle out in LinkedIn. I am not sure why and quite a few people did not give the same answer as in the Answer tab. Hmmm, either I’m wrong and I don’t think so or that 36% percent figure is about right.Click on the tabs to get at the puzzle and then…
I’m working on some interesting problems posed by my boss. She wanted something done that would entail more automation so I’m working on helping her.One thing she is doing is completely redoing her budget file and one of the problem she is encountering is the exploding size of the file. Last year’s budget file was…
Continuing with trying to see how we can improve our thinking process, the next series of chapters in Mindware by Richard Nisbett centers around economic thinking. You should get the book because the author has a lot of insightful knowledge about human behavior and I won’t be touching those. There are some really interesting tidbits.But first,…
There’s a lot of books and articles out there about the dangers of the Internet and the digital life. There may be a few about how exciting the future will be but those are overshadowed by the dire warnings. Let’s add one more: the dangers of getting out of touch with reality.We may be only in…
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