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Lately I’ve been reading a lot about people solving hard problems such as saving the world, eliminating poverty, solving climate change. These are BIG, HAIRY problems that won’t be easily eradicated. Most of us don’t deal with stuff like this. But we all do work on hard problems, just on a smaller scale. Right now…
Now I think I know what people mean about being authentic. A couple of days ago I received an email from a guy who posted his comment in the Project Control group of LinkedIn. On the surface of it, he was directing us to a “mystery” blogger who was writing about his ‘day in the…
Now, I’m guilty of making extremely large files that can run pretty slowly because I will work with large datasets. I will download everything in the universe, if I can. I also work on how to present information in a useful, clear and pretty fashion. Making things pretty can create large files. Here are a…
Carl Icahn is back in the news again; he’s agitating Apple to buy back shares as a way of increasing shareholder values. But why should Apple give money to people like him who are providing nothing of value to the company? All Icahn and his ilk are doing is sucking money out of corporations. Instead, that…
Dashboard driving: running your business solely on the numbers without considering your long-term prospects or intangibles. Do you drive your car solely by looking at the dashboard, measuring your speed and fuel usage? Or do you mostly drive by looking out the window to see where you are and where you are going and possibly…
When you develop programs, you have to test, test, test. After this past month, I see at least 2 areas where you have to do some serious testing: 1) Test different sites/units/businesses that will be using your program. Each site or unit may have different ways of entering data or have different terminology. Even the…
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