My Musings

  • Failure is Not An Option

    Actually, the title of the chapter in Rework says “Failure is not a rite of passage” and goes on to say that “learning from mistakes is overrated”. I just recently re-read Rework before finishing off their second book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and the authors do have contrarian views, some I…

  • Good News Amidst the Bad

    Hello, it’s a new year and I’m not looking forward to it. It’s election year, so that means all of the nastiness that goes with it. Most end of the year articles were either a compilation of pictures of what happened or distressing reviews of the years during 2010s – such as climate change, people…

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    Some Excel Ideas

    Note: This post took forever to develop. Creating examples took a lot of out me so I’m thinking of doing the second half next weekend. Over the holidays I was thinking over the conversations I had with others about using Excel and it got me thinking about ways I use Excel that others don’t. It…

  • Using Technology

    Like I said in my prior post, at this time of the year, there are so many festivities going on. One of them was our company luncheon where I got together with some ladies as others played video games. We got to talking about using Excel to automate our work and one of them said…

  • Lazy

    While this time of year is wonderful with parties, plenty of food, and general jolliness, I tend to get lazy. Some years are worse than others and this year is one of them. Too much good times is not good for my state of mind. This goes all the way back to high school, if…