Stacked, Credentialed, Certified, and licensed

When I was growing up the two top jobs that were promoted were lawyer and doctor.  It was the perception of my parents and grandparents that if you became a lawyer or a doctor you […]

Coming to Terms: Purple Squirrel or Never ending shades of violet

I’ve occasionally discussed the concept of the purple squirrel.  But what is it? According to Wikipedia: Purple squirrel is a term used by employment recruiters to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, […]

Self Driving Cars

  On a personal level I like technology, all sorts of technology.  It’s a bit of a hobby for me.  Another hobby, one I hope to turn into a viable business is my writing.  There […]

Thrifty Studio Time and Priceless Motivation

A few weeks back I reached out to a contact I had made at the North Carolina Writers Network who had said they knew somebody with a studio. As anybody reading this blog with regularity […]

Student Loan Chargebacks

One of the most questionable practices by a company I had ever seen was the aggressive implementation of chargebacks.  Although this practice caused severe hardship to several small business people. I’m thinking there may be […]

The Write Community

Who would have thought that a community post and writers meet-up would inspire me so much?

Consulting

Consulting is the great fallback position. Generally the way people get involved in consulting work has to do with an unwanted or unexpected excess of time.   Sometimes that time came in a positive way such […]

PIC your pay policy.

The sad part about any data out of a politically focused organization is that even when the data is really good, you still have to double check all of it for determining if it’s skewed.   […]

Close to the Hype

The hype cycle is a very interesting phenomenon.  It’s generally used for technical purposes. It helps define the level adoption of a new technology or service, but it can just as easily translate into other […]

How to work with stupid people. – Laurie Ruettimann

This is an interesting post not specifically for the premise behind it’s title.  If you read through the first paragraph it really does make the point that everybody  can be seen as stupid by someone […]