My Musings

  • Hurricane Season

    With the start of the new school season comes a period of intense hurricane activity. I hate this time of the year. These hurricanes are just way too stressful. When I was younger, it didn’t seem like I have to worry about hurricanes every year and when one did pass our way, they were generally…

  • Excel Trick for Texts

    I just learned a neat new trick in Excel from an Excel guru Leila Gharani. It’s the Fill Justify and the embedded YouTube video describing it is embedded below. It’s such a neat trick that you can use when you write up notes or instructions in excel. Generally, when I write instructions or a checklist,…

  • Finding Data

    A quick post: I’m working on a self-project where I practice doing data visualization with storytelling. How do I tell a “grab you by the throat” story? When I was in college, I used to have to write each week some kind of composition in French using the topic or words assigned. The teacher teaching…

  • Are We Looking at a New Era of Stakeholder Capitalism?

    I’m revisiting a topic I wrote on earlier in the week: the news that the Business Roundtable is redefining businesses’ purpose as being larger than just shareholders. Their purpose should encompass all stakeholders, not just shareholders: the customers, employees, the community. There have been quite a few responses to this news and most people seem…