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Anthony Kennedy Retiring
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Preparing for macOS Mojave
I use my Mac for both work and personal reasons and I do prefer to be on the newest OS level. While I am pretty sure that most of my personal needs will be supported by the new macOS, I am not necessarily as confident of my professional needs. For some context, here is my “Dev Env Setup” that I follow / maintain.
- VirtualBox – https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17805
The following seem to be working properly, i.e., w/o any issues (so far).
- Xcode v9.4.1
- git v2.15.2
- Viber
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Forever a Temp
Disclaimer – I have believed for a while now that we are witnessing a time when we are about to redefine “workers”. If not for all workers, at least a vast majority of them.
That the radio show “Forever a Temp” was an interesting eye opener is an understatement. The first comment that caught my attention was – there is an assumption that most of the people / workers in the “new” model are the millenials, but that is far for the fact. A lot of these workers are actually
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- Gigged: The End of the Job and The Future of Work by Sarah Kessler
Incredibles 2
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Anthony Bourdain
1956 – June 8th, 2018
I knew him as well as one can know someone that they have never met. I have watched many, many of his TV shows and his interviews and him being interviewed.
I don’t have any illusions that he shared his deepest thoughts, but at the same time he probably opened up more than many of my real life friends.
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Suicide
The first time I learned that someone I knew took her own life, I was in elementary school.
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Trend in Context
While I’m not a huge fan of “trends”, I have never really had anything against it. I have recently realized what exactly about it that I don’t care for – it usually lacks any and all context. At least the context is not readily available or made.
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Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur I am not really – at least not yet. But I have admired those who are and have often imagined myself to be one. Of course since all my work experience has been around Software Engineering / Technology, I have always thought the entrepreneurship might happen in the form of some form of provider of some Software Solution.
That is not something that I am ruling out quite yet, but I do realize now my real goal. What I really want is financial independence. Not having to rely on having to “work” for a paycheck.
Wikipedia defines entrepreneurship as being the “process of designing, launching and running a new business”. While the dictionary defines it as “organizing and operating a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so”.
While both of these make sense, I think of an “entrepreneur” as wikipedia defines it. To me, once a business has been setup and being operated, even with taking higher financial risk, the primary goal switches to running and growing the business. That is the role of a CEO and the Board of Director(s).
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Participation Rate
I have often wondered what the unemployment number meant in the larger context. That we have an unemployment rate of x.y% is only relevant in that it is stating that of 100 people looking for employment, x.y are unable to find a job.
But how many people are looking for work? Those who are NOT looking, why are they not looking?
Today on my drive in the afternoon I heard on the Marketplace show on NPR for the very first time the term “Participation Rate”. Soon as I heard the term I knew what it meant and also that finally I found the answer that I have been searching for.
Without paying really close attention it looks like between ’48 and ’69 this was stayed between 58% and 60% and then it kept rising pretty gradually till about ’90 when it reached around 65%. It stayed around 65%~68% thru ’08 and kept falling till about ’13 and then settled around 62~63% since.
BTW, something to keep in mind is that this is a “rate” and it only counts civilians over 16 years. Not sure if they take into account people with disabilities or new mothers or individuals older than 16 and going to school.
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