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More bad behavior but this time from the government and not from the usual bad guys. The situation in Flint, Michigan is really sad and portends grave long-term consequences. The kids will probably grow up disadvantaged for the rest their lives. I did read other headlines that suggest that other cities face the same poor quality…
I read a post by Seth Godin about 2 weeks ago (his post is dated January 19, 2016) and it reminded me of back when I used to work at SAIC. He wrote about working on the urgent things that satisfies the short-term but does nothing for the important long-term. While he was really talking about…
They say that you should always keep learning and while I agree with it in principle, it can be difficult to do along with all of the other shoulds (network! do social media! exercise! cook fresh food! do LinkedIn everyday!). But I’m still trying. This past week I went back to the project that has…
I’m revisiting a project that had lots of data – so much that I could not work with it in Excel very well. I was forced to build up the formulas, file by file. I would build a column of formulas to do one thing and if it worked, save that file with the formula. Let’s…
I haven’t heard anything more about the outcome of Gravity Payment’s experiment of raising salaries to the minimum of $70,000 but Seth Godin did weigh in on what he thought is going on with the two best employees quitting because people were getting raises even if they didn’t earn it, or at least produce as…
“Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind, not only immoral, but evil” – Gore Vidal. “Thus did a handful…
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