In a perfect world, anyone reaching out with legitimate business intentions would make it easy to confirm who they are. Yet today, inboxes and voicemail boxes are filled with unexpected messages from people claiming to represent opportunities, partnerships, or solutions. Some are real. Most are not. The modern challenge is learning how to recognize the […]
Read More →I get it – I’m privileged. I can order online and don’t have to worry too terribly much about whether hamburger meat is on special or not. Notwithstanding, if you are offering a service, the service should be provided with reasoned and considered care for quality regardless of who you are. That means addressing systemic […]
Read More →The basis of all energy production is that fossil fuels burn releasing more energy than what is put in to start the process in the first place. Any boy scout can show you this simply by building a campfire. While there are often other by-products of the burning process, the most fundamental equation results in […]
Read More →Robert Cordray published an interesting little piece about the implications of autonomous vehicles on insurance companies (see full article here). To be honest I really think he has it wrong. The fact insurance companies may need to change their risk and pricing models really should be the last thing anyone is worrying about at this […]
Read More →I can road rage with the best of them. I don’t know why I seem to be having a shorter fuse lately I just know that the older more experienced I get the more certain things just bug the heck out of me when something so obvious is met with people who are oblivious to […]
Read More →I love US politics. It is much more fun than the boring stuff we have to watch up here in Canada. Mostly because Canadian politics have only two sides to them 1) insisting that some Government Cabinet Minister resign, or 2) actually discussing the issue intelligently. In the US, they don’t have that problem. It’s […]
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