A Pixar storyboard artist recently started a viral conversation when she tweeted 22 rules to create a good story. This is the age of “story telling”, so what better place to start than at Pixar.
What irony. If you’re in a meeting, anxious that others are smarter, more attractive, or more effective than you, chances are someone else is thinking the same about you.
On May 14th, an asteroid the size of a city block missed earth by 3.35 million miles. That may sound like a lot, but that’s only 3.6% of the distance from here to the sun. Considering this asteroid travels about a billion miles in one orbit of the sun, that’s only one half of one percent margin of error. That’s what you call a near-miss.
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are worth a look. They were around before the current Affordable Health Care Act, and will be around after, whether or not the new law is repealed or modified.
Since 1965, using the “Moore’s Law” estimate, computer chip technology has doubled in capability every two years. That’s 24 doublings, which means (brace yourself), we’ve improved 2^24 or 16 million times in less than 50 years. Even more astounding, they’re cheaper today.
Trucks surpass rail (the second highest freight transport), by 6 times in weight and 23 times in dollars. Since trucks measure the last step before goods end up on a store shelf, they’re a good measure of the economy.
This NBA season’s round of playoffs has been especially taxing on me. Ray Allen may be suffering from painful bone spurs, but I’m trying to hold down a full-time job while staying up after midnight and experiencing emotions that include terror, rage and religious euphoria.
Last week, I made a presentation to members of the International Association of Administrative Professionals during one of their regional meetings. My topic covered some advanced tips for using Microsoft Outlook.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Three of the biggest names in social networking. They coined the term and made it part of our everyday vocabulary, but they certainly didn’t create the concept.
Social networking has been around as long as societies have. Groups with common ideas and goals have been getting together to develop and grow for centuries.
It seems like most of the consumer based innovations lately have been “apps” for our devices. Here are three that deal with other parts of our lives that could be quite nice.
What irony. If you’re in a meeting, anxious that others are smarter, more attractive, or more effective than you, chances are someone else is thinking the same about you.
On May 14th, an asteroid the size of a city block missed earth by 3.35 million miles. That may sound like a lot, but that’s only 3.6% of the distance from here to the sun. Considering this asteroid travels about a billion miles in one orbit of the sun, that’s only one half of one percent margin of error. That’s what you call a near-miss.
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are worth a look. They were around before the current Affordable Health Care Act, and will be around after, whether or not the new law is repealed or modified.
Since 1965, using the “Moore’s Law” estimate, computer chip technology has doubled in capability every two years. That’s 24 doublings, which means (brace yourself), we’ve improved 2^24 or 16 million times in less than 50 years. Even more astounding, they’re cheaper today. 
This NBA season’s round of playoffs has been especially taxing on me. Ray Allen may be suffering from painful bone spurs, but I’m trying to hold down a full-time job while staying up after midnight and experiencing emotions that include terror, rage and religious euphoria.
Last week, I made a presentation to members of the International Association of Administrative Professionals during one of their regional meetings. My topic covered some advanced tips for using Microsoft Outlook.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Three of the biggest names in social networking. They coined the term and made it part of our everyday vocabulary, but they certainly didn’t create the concept.