Many years ago I needed to better support my family while working a job 7:30am-5:30pm, so I got a second job working 6:00pm-10:pm.  When my main employer found out, I...

I have loved music all my life, having studied piano from early elementary school, played cornet, trombone, baritone, and tuba in school band, etc.  Now at 83 years I listen...

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If you are replaced by AI, maybe the reason is that in a side-by-side evaluation, you lost.

This is exactly the reason for my signature line

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I just realized this morning that I was actually using AI 50 years ago (1974) when I wrote RPG and COBOL code to route human order pickers efficiently through a...

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"OK, Google, give me a very good review of my business mentioning good phone service, very good friendly service people, prompt service and very reasonable price."

My financial skill building began in my grade school days when I started working summer farm jobs and my first 'savings account' was an old fabric bank bag stashed under...

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After retiring the first time I was invited to return to my position, and part of the negotiation was limiting the number of meetings I would have to attend.  That...

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David, I love your blister comment.  Very well thought out.

From my perspective of being 82 years old, with at least 70 of those years working for money, 42 years working specifically in IT, 10 years of management experience, and...

Just a couple thoughts on this:

If you are working on a 'side hustle' on my time, you're fired so you will have more time.

If you walk into my office and...

After years of trying to figure it all out, my KISS method answer is "I make information from data".

Besides working with about 30 instances of servers, couple hundred data bases,...

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Back in my early days, many moons ago even before databases were common, I wrote a script which deleted a data entry file and renamed the backup file.  You can't...

Rod, I bounce ideas off my wife all the time.  In fact, most of them bounce off.

I asked AI how I should jump off my deck, and it said "head first".