This is probably the most difficult question today – when to restart the economy?
Takeaway: work constantly to create alliances with others
If you stay focused on creating value (easiest way to do this is to save the user time), you can get ahead/make progress.
More on distraction
Distraction as a political tool
Some good ideas to pass the time…
The Lysol President
Soon to be overheard on some news network:
Yes, I am “The Lysol President”. If that is too much to remember, just call me by my nickname – Lys – that’s pronounced “Lies”….
Convocast Episode 5 is out!
This is my 500th post according to my WordPress dashboard, so I thought this should be a full-fledged post instead of just a status. Woohoo!
My latest episode of Convocast (Episode 5) is live – check it out! I talk about my experience in the aerospace industry (at John Philpin’s request in Episode 4).
Is there still hope for COBOL programmers?
Recently, Joseph Steinberg noted that the governor of New Jersey put out a call for COBOL programmers to assist in updating or fixing business applications being used by the state for unemployment applications. I last wrote about this in June 2019 , after seeing an article about COBOL expertise being still in demand by financial institutions. I decided to look and see if there were any resources available for someone to get familiar with COBOL. It turns out that Micro Force is a company that has up-to-date COBOL development environments and compilers, OpenSource.com lists several compilers available (gnuCOBOL seems to be the significant one (documentation here)), and there is a beginning COBOL programming book available from Apress. Looks like there may be some opportunity here (at least according to Indeed.com ….).
Last week, on March 15th, was The Archive‘s 2nd anniversary. Just like we’re all supposed to not celebrate big birthday parties or gather for festivities in general, this year’s app anniversary is toned way down as well. Here’s to what has happened in the past year.