You may have heard about the Peter Principle (every employee tends to rise to his/her level of incompetency) and Putt’s law (the most competent person tends to sink to the bottom while the least talented person rises to the top). You have not heard of the A, B, C Theory because it is mine. I will explain what it is and you decide if there is any merit in it. Continue reading
If you have visited a bookstore recently you may have noticed an explosion in Python-related titles, especially for kids.
The Python I mean is not the invasive species of the snake now eating Florida alligators, nor Monty Python the comedy troupe, but the computer language, made in Holland originally but nowadays world-owned. Python, the language, appears to be taking over the world! Continue reading
In my view, the major retirement consideration is sufficient income to maintain a similar lifestyle you enjoyed when working. If you recently retired or plan to do so within the next few years, it is probably too late to assess considerations to improve your retirement position because your retirement income is already cast in stone. On the other hand, if you have a number of years before retirement and wondering how you should prepare for it, keep reading because I offer some valid recommendations for you to ponder based on my own experience since retiring in 2012 at the age of 71. Continue reading
When the suicides happened in the most elite high school, Henry M. Gunn High School, an affluent community, also in the heart of Silicon Valley, the home of the most brilliant and successful inventors, invention and companies, it raises a red flag and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is conducting an investigation and trying to find out the root cause of the invisible, mysterious and contagious disease, suicide cluster. I was informed more than 10 years ago in Oregon that parents in Palo Alto have organized patrol teams around the Caltrain tracks but obviously the suicide symptom is not alleviated after a decade later. Continue reading
Today’s New York Times had an article: Is There Any Stopping Donald Trump?. “They (voters) want to try something utterly different—utterly disruptive, to use the locution du jour—and that leaves them, on the Republican side, with the options of Trump and Ben Carson. Trump has the fire.”
We live in the age of disruption. I’ve seem my career and work be disrupted. So, this is my story and in many ways may become the story of your work, career, and job. So, pay heed. Understand the conventional rules are now being changed. For more tips, visit: Working It.com
I started out of high school doing manual work. My first job was as an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine. I worked on rust buckets on and off for 5 years. This manual work was very hard and frankly not suited to my style, abilities, temperament, and life direction. Continue reading