I’ve posted 3 new project summaries to the My Projects page of the www.landonblake.com web site. The first two project summaries feature projects I recently completed at Guida Surveying. The first is a boundary survey in the hills just north…
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After hearing an Econtalk podcast with Ryan Holiday on recognizing the contributions that others make to our success, I resolved to regularly consider men and women in my life who helped me reach important accomplishments or develop as a professional.…
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“Yet another possibility for increasing wages can be found in an old capitalist concept: performance based pay. Advocates of free enterprise like to say hard work should be rewarded, but in today’s corporate culture, that simply isn’t the case. While…
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“You’d think from the debate raging in Washington that taxes are the key to economic growth. They aren’t. In the long run, innovation matters way more, and that depends on inspiration, experimentation, and luck, not tax law changes. Two of…
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“Within a year, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department are supposed to work with operators and local officials to set-up locations testing novel air-traffic management networks, along with proposed radio or cellular systems designed to track low-altitude drones.”…
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“Connecticut’s experience shows the folly of taxing the middle class to support platinum benefits for the public workforce while shifting the burden of legacy pensions onto future taxpayers. The result has been a slower economy and no serious drive to…
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“Under (the) new system, geolocation satellites will hover directly above Japan, fixing the problem in the country’s dense urban areas of existing GPS signals occasionally being blocked by tall buildings.” Source: The Wall Street Journal (Thursday, October 10, 2017 Issue)…
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The latest HBR Management Tip of the day has good advice on helping your remote workers. This basically involves regular communication and monitoring. Here is an excerpt from the tip: One of the challenges of managing people from afar is…
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I’ve made a new Facebook page for my friends that want to get updates and photos on my land surveying work in Central California and Western Nevada: https://www.facebook.com/ccvsurveyor/ If your on Facebook, you can like the page to get my…
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Econtalk, my all-time favorite podcast, had an episode in July with guest Ryan Holiday that talked about the need for humility and a recognition that others contribute a great deal to what we are able to accomplish. After I heard…
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