“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 selected a set of the best free fonts for 2017. There are 8 fonts I’ve chosen. They can all be downloaded for free or for a small donation to the designer. Here is the list: Humger Font Monk Font…
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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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I’ve created a new collection on Unsplash for my top picks from the set of my own photos taken in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains. Most of these photos were taken along highway 88, Highway 4, and Highway 108 in…
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Unsplash is a great place to get high resolution photography free from copyright. I’ve got several collections there. One is my collection for landscape photos on Unsplash called “Beautiful Earth”. I wanted to share a couple of my recent additions…
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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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I recently took on the role as chairperson of the ACEC California Land Use Committee. I’m looking for a volunteer intern that can help me run the committee. The intern would assist with the following tasks: Tracking local and state…
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Today’s world of social media and personal branding can lead a person to become too focused on their own skills, abilities and I occasionally catch myself failing into this trap. I was recently inspired by a couple of podcasts to…
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