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A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how “passion” was overused. Doing work that you are passionate about does not always lead to sustainable living. I’m of the belief that not only you have to love what you are doing but you have to talent for it and that there is a…
In LinkedIn last week, BP had a posting of a puzzle: “What is unique about the following number? 8,549,176,320.” The responses I saw were giving answers to the puzzle. I looked at it and wondered: “I wonder if this puzzle is out on Google?” I googled the number and sure enough, it is out there….
Amazon has been hit lately with some bad press surrounding its work culture. The spate of articles was kicked off by the New York Times article describing the “brutal” work culture in Amazon followed up by other publishers’ smaller articles commenting on an aspect of the main article. The NY Times article was pretty damning…
Yesterday I worked on pulling data for an invoice and as usual, I double checked prior months’ numbers. Why do that? They are not supposed to change. Well, in a public company, prior months’ numbers are supposed to remain the same. If you change them, then that’s called restating the financials and that’s frowned upon….
A couple of months ago, a CEO of his own company decided to cut his pay in order to pay his people a minimum of $70K salary. He actually decided to do something about the inequality and $70K was the point at which people were the happiest because they didn’t have to worry as much…
I need to stop watching videos – they are such a time sink. Because of the Donald Trump comedy show, I’ve been watching comedy videos, most especially Bill Maher’s, and boy, are they biting and funny. The problem is, I’m not doing anything but watching videos. There were a few videos from Bill Maher concerning…
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