Category: Commentary
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The Bottom Line is Wrong
In 1982 when I first started a realistic career as a software engineer to replace my manual labor/freelance writing aspirations with an actual money making venture, I bought a book on how to succeed in business. The very first page said to pick your end goal first and then start your career on the first…
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Football, Wat Dat?
In my youth, I was a big sports fan. I used to watch the weekly TV baseball game at 10am on Saturdays. Remember those? (Of course you don’t, you’re not a Cro-magnon man like me). Heck, you might have actually been born in this century.) I even used to know almost all the MLB players.…
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Titles of Nobility
The recent election has made me reflect on a time in my life when I was awakened to a truth about myself that I had never realized. Great Britain annoys me. Now most of my life I admired the British. They were the land of Shakespeare, Milton, Tolkein, the land of common law, the ones…
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Things That Make Me Go Hmmm
Now that we have not just year and a half election campaign seasons but also month long voting, I’m trying to ignore politics as much as I find possible. The only advantage is that as an old, single guy, it makes my daily trip to the mailbox less futile because every day has at least…
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We Can(‘t) Be Heroes
My new subscription to Paramount+ is allowing me to see Showtime documentaries that I never knew existed, and I watched two in the last two weeks about groundbreaking Black entertainers. The first was about Bill Cosby, and the second was about Michael Jackson and the ongoing legacy of his Thriller album. I was moved by…
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Haters Gonna’ Hate
Last night I took the plunge and rented the video of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and it is rather amazing. Normally I wouldn’t spend $20 to rent an online video, but I certainly wasn’t about to pay $450 to get a bad seat in a large stadium for one of her concerts, surrounded by the…
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Is Your Customer Service Feedback a Lie? And How Does That Impact our Brave New AI World?
Feedback is the life blood of any business. Once you grow your business beyond constantly having personal interactions with your customers, you need some mechanism to tell you how the service or product you provide is meeting or not meeting your customers’ satisfaction. As the owner you eventually get the answer of course when people…
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The Madness of Crowds
I’ve recently read a number of articles about how people think and make decisions. I’ve been fascinated by this topic for most of my life because I recognize that…, I’m odd. Once when I went to a classical music concert with a friend, she asked me how I liked it. I replied that at first…
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Whatever Happened to Skepticism?
Science! is a big thing these days especially among politicians who insist that you have to listen to the experts because, presumably they know more than you do. Don’t trust your own common sense because that’s the kind of thing that told people that the earth was flat. Except, whoops, nobody ever believed that except…
Musings of a Restless Mind 