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#127 – CAREER DISRUPTION! – GREG HUTCHINS

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Greg Hutchins pixToday’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 →

#127 – CONWAY’S LAW – KIRBY URNER

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AAA IRBYNot every day does one learn of a new law, such as Moore’s, so call me a latecomer in not learning of Conway’s Law until recently.

What does it say?

I’ll try from memory before checking a veridical source:  that how organizations code themselves in software has a tremendous influence on their more overt intra-human communications patterns.  Or, in other words.

“We are what dog food we eat.” Continue reading →

#126 – AT&T – “ADAPT OR ELSE” – GREG HUTCHINS

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Greg Hutchins pixThe New York Times this weekend had a front page article on the future of work.

“Gearing Up for the Cloud: AT&T Tells It’s Workers: Adapt, or Else”

I guess this says it all:  For large companies who have to compete in the world of disruption: employees are being told that they must adapt. But how? Continue reading →

#125 – TO RETIRE OR NOT TO RETIRE? – VICTORIA LAI

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IMG_0864To retire or not to retire? 

Can I afford to retire?

I can’t retire until my kid has finished college and has a job. My daughter is still living at home and needs support.

So a little background:  

Margaux is sixteen years old. She has been a homeschooler for five years. She is doing college math, physics, software, and working on a startup. I’m worried because college costs a lot of money and that means as parents, we have to help our kids get an education, find a job, and settle down – all of which take longer.

And by the way, don’t forget the huge debt that we co-signed.  Bottom line: we may have to work longer to pay it off.  So, good bye retirement.

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#124 – PERSONAL RISK IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS – KIRBY URNER

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AAA IRBYLast month in this blog, I chronicled a “device failure”:  my car key broke off in the ignition.  I modeled this “exception” (to my reasonable expectations) using Python code, suggesting pseudo-coding one’s risk model as a first step in a risk assessment process. Continue reading →