About to catch the redeye flight to Baltimore. 10 pm to 7 am. Then sit in the airport for an hour and a half waiting for the car rental place to open. Finally a four hour drive through rush hour traffic to get to Lexington VA. Fun fun fun. No sun though.
Laurel and I at Katie and Andrews Wedding
University of California Bloat
The LA Times has a great article on the bloat at the University of California here – http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-spending-20151011-story.html
I Hate Outside Recruiters
I get endless cold calls from moron tech recruiters who have never written a line of code in their lives. They have no idea what the difference between PHP or JavaScript is. Bottom feeding trolls.
P.S. I have built a world class team of true recruiters plus a great platform they use internally at Coalition. Breath of fresh air.
Laurels Step Grandmas 75th
Bad Public Servants
How can we make it easier to fire poorly performing public servants and remove their ridiculous amount of union protectionism? Read this about incompetent and bad cops and how it is impossible to fire them: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3ll98d/cops_of_reddit_do_you_know_who_the_bad_eggs_are/
Shut Down Volkswagen
Volkswagen made a clear, logical decision at the highest levels of their company on down to the lowest levels to cheat consumers, and the American people. They made a business decision to install a defeat device on half a million of their vehicles that intentionally avoids clean air standards except for while the vehicle undergoes emissions testing.… read more “Shut Down Volkswagen”
LA Rain
Management Retreat
I am so excited for my teams management retreat that I am headed in to the office an hour and a half early on a Saturday morning! 🙂
Feedback Tool
I am super excited about my new web application about to launch that will import my team member’s time worked and allow me to provide feedback on each task!