If you work at the following rates, here’s the maximum monthly housing allowance you can afford, both FULL TIME (middle column) and PART TIME (right column), taking into account all expenses (food, transportation, utilities, clothing, emergencies, etc.): Continue reading “Some money figures”
The future of power grids
There’s a big move underway currently, as micro-production of power expands rapidly. It’s a move that is, oddly enough, being completely ignored by all of the big power behemoths (PG&E, PSE, etc.) in their eternal drive to wag the dog of “shareholder value”, while the little PUDs (Public Utility Districts) blow right past them. The new paradigm?
The RIGHT way to use an offshore team
I can’t express how many times I’ve seen this happen, and it frustrates me to no end. This article explains it very well and has the added bonus of saving me the time explaining it myself. (:
The Dangers of Measuring Individual Performance
Great article from a great author[1]! This sums up a lot of why personal performance reviews have always seemed just wrong to me.
The Dangers of Measuring Performance – Startup Patterns
- [1]I’m trying to figure out how to convince him to contribute to my Value Dynamics book↩
Why I keep saying Apple is falling.
Short answer: We’ve seen it before; Apple is Jobs, and without him, it runs aground.
Long(er) answer: Continue reading “Why I keep saying Apple is falling.”