My Musings

  • Secrets

    We all have secrets. Some have skeletons in the closet. Some are harmless, some should be harmless. Some are minor, and some are consequential. And this week, it looks like we’re dealing with a consequential one: one dealing with nuclear and intelligence information. Top secret information. At first, when news about the search warrant being…

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    Goal Seek

    “I wish you could reverse engineer the answer.” When we do the forecasting, pricing or some kind of modeling, we move forward in spreadsheets by inputting the values for the variables and letting the formulas calculate the end results such as net income or gross margin. However, sometimes, we know what kind of end results…

  • Flash floods to heat waves

    Boy, the weather has been wicked this past month: Europe suffering from fires, UK breaking temperature records since recording began in the 1880 (I think), the heat waves in the U.S., the fires in California, and those flooding. This week the bad news was centered on Kentucky. The images coming out of Kentucky are horrible….