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For most of my adult life, I have considered myself “cheap.” For example, I’ve been known to say things like: “Why buy something new when the old one still works?” or “Why pay more when I can get essentially the same thing for less?” In Chapter 6 of Your Money or Your Life, by Vicki Robin, […]
For the past couple of years I’ve felt I should know something about Bitcoin, as it’s becoming more mainstream, so I recently purchased Mastering Bitcoin for Dummies by Alan T. Norman. Have you ever had one of those moments when someone is speaking to you about a technical subject and it’s as though they’re talking […]
Once again, I’m out of my area of professional expertise, but I would suggest the answer to the title question is “passive-aggressive behavior.” My partner, Barbara, will write more on this subject later, but I wanted to at least introduce it. Based on reading 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness, by Andrea Brandt, and my own […]
I have to admit I reluctantly read Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google, by Laszlo Bock. Once again I was confronted with my deep biases, this time related to certain tech companies. To my surprise, the 19-year-old company described in the book was more similar than dissimilar to my 40-year experience at Plante Moran (the […]
Those of you who personally know me or have been reading my blogs are aware that I have highly recommended using the 12 questions found in the book First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham. This summer, I heard Buckingham speak, and discovered he has pared his 12 questions down to eight (fewer is […]
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