In today’s reflection, I m looking back to November 2013. I am searching through my old emails and just seeing what was going on and what I can learn from it and apply to my life in the future.
As part of my ongoing effort to reflect on the past, I have looked up archives from the New York Times from 1939- 1941 here http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/*/from19391111to19411230/
Amusing claim… May 26, 1940 the French government claimed that Nazi air superiority had been overcome…. this was 1 day before the emergency evacuation at Dunkirk of the defeated Allied armies.… read more “Ancient Reflection”
Occam’s Razor is a mental rule of thumb that instructs us to pick the simplest theory to explain something. A good case for this is “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not of zebras”.
Occam’s Razor is especially applicable to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as people assume Google is doing some crazy artificial intelligence thing to rank one site over another, when quite often it is very obvious things like keyword usage on site that causes ranking differences.
With Laurel in Kauai for our honeymoon.
I realized yesterday that I have my personal history documented on my blog, in my gmail, and on Facebook stretching back ten years.
I read some of my ancient emails and came to see a different side to myself. I found some good, and lots of the embarrassing. Sadly I also found the bad.
The good included old dreams and ideas that have come to fruition.… read more “Personal History”
Gambling preys on neurological habits that people can’t control. Casinos make their games more addictive than heroin or tobacco.
We should outlaw gambling.
Casino employees know how bad people are hurt by gambling, but still try to find ways to get them even more addicted. Gambling and casinos are straight evil.
I am investigating possibly setting up an Employee Stock Ownership Plan for my team. If it will not cause too large of an expense or tax or legal issues I will probably do it. My biggest concern right now is that overseas team members may not be able to participate and that it could be cost prohibitive (tens of thousands of dollars) to hire someone to administer it.… read more “ESOP Plans”