My Musings

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    The Scary Future

    I’m reading at least 4 books right now, only one of which is fiction. My problem is I just don’t have time and there are so many interesting things to do. Anyway, I have mentioned Future Smart before in conjunction with the author’s envisioned future for money. But the author also talks about –  surprise,…

  • Unbounded Greed

    During the week there had been some news articles about Turing Pharmaceuticals and its CEO, Martin Shkreli, jacking up the price of a drug that has been around for at least 60 years, from $13.50 to $750 a pill. The stated reason for doing so: “needed to make a profit”. Um how about: price gouging because…

  • More Macro Fun

    This is a continuation of a prior post but this time, I will talk about a really interesting kind of macro that I have recently been learning. I knew that you could record macros, you could have a button for starting macros, you could use ctrl+key to start a macro, you could have a macro…

  • More Automation

    I’ve been working on a set of new projects – some of it pertains to gathering data and performing analysis and some of it requires a bit of automation. The analytical piece is not done and probably will be ongoing. The analysis is only at the beginning stage so there is not much to relay…

  • Creating Money

    I’m reading another book called Future Smart by James Canton. It’s about what the future may bring and what you may need to be thinking of doing to prepare. Some of the things he predicts seems very obvious, like predicting that we will all be connected due to the Internet, social media and Internet of…