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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…
I’m currently reading a book about some tools for smarter thinking: Mindware by Richard Nisbett. In my last post (or two), I wrote about the second chapter where the main takeaway for me was you should consider the situation when evaluating why people act the way they do. Just relying on the “dispositional” characters of…
Yesterday, I read a bunch of articles about universities offering classes on computers, specifically coding classes. These classes are extremely popular and can sometimes carry a waiting list. The coding mania has even extended down to the elementary school level. So a lot of people are getting on the STEM train ride. In a few years,…
Today’s short post will be about one of the two books that I’m reading: Mindware. The book is supposed to give you tools for thinking intelligently and discusses ways people err. Thinking intelligently is going to be very important in this day and age of fake news. A lot of people are believing in conspiracy…