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Flew into Seattle Thursday night to celebrate Bestemor’s 75th birthday with her. Stayed through today (Sunday) and will fly back at 3 pm. Did a management retreat with Jordan, played Wii with Justin White and Nick Fitzer and the White family, and checked out Jordan’s new house. Also went for a six mile run with the antelope Jimmy!

I have been thinking about getting a Playstation 4 recently. Not sure though… might be too much of a distraction from other things I need to do.

 

Most people believe that a scenario in which a new dominant species arose and possibly wiped out humanity to be a terrible thing. This is natural as we instinctually fight as hard as we can for our survival.

For the last few millions of years though our ancestors have evolved from one species to the next, each new version better fitted for survival and more competent.… read more “Artificial Intelligence Takeover Might Be a Good Thing”

ProjectEuler.net is a really fun way to improve on your coding skills. I have worked through the first eight problems and am looking forward to working through the other 550. My programs are definitely not the most efficient solutions though, often taking quite a bit longer than the recommended one minute to solve.

 

“Environmentalists” have been protesting dams for years even though they are enormously greener and better for the environment than coal or gas. Could big oil and gas secretly be backing the anti-nuclear and anti-dam protestors? My bet is yes.

If you are looking to buy learning management system software you should try RomyLMS.com. I built this system last year for Coalition Technologies and last month I made it accessible for consumer use. We’ve worked hard to make sure it is easier to use than any existing LMSs out there.

A big part of ease of use is how you navigate through a system.… read more “Buy Learning Management System Software”

Coalition’s new homepage is going to be lightning fast! Very excited to get it done.

I think there are 4 levels of productivity an employee can have:

1. Doing work

2. Doing work + reporting on the work (let Joel know)

3. Doing work + reporting on the work + providing insights on the work (make recommendations)

4. Doing work + reporting on the work + providing insights on the work + taking action to improve the work based on insights (make necessary changes to systems and report to Joel).

… read more “Employee Productivity”