Learning Learning is a process about trying things to see what happens. It’s a process of experience. The learning is in the realization there may be other actions that produce more desirable results. Testing the alternative actions is part of a learning process. Experience is understanding results, the cause and effect, of both correct and incorrect actions. The testing does not have to be physical. Einstein and many other great thinkers run “tests” mentally. But...
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Paid Time Off
I am using up my excess PTO before the end of the year. That is Paid Time Off for the non corporate world. That started back when corporations of the Dilbert variety combined sick days and paid vacation into PTO. No more need to call in sick just to take a day off. Corporations buy each other and merge benefits. That happened to me. I didn’t lose how many PTO days I can earn (at...
Continue reading...A Travel Dialogue
This could have happened while flying to Dallas…. “Hi, I’m Dan Kautz” “Hi Dan, My name is Dr, Ben Dover. “ “Naw… really? Wow! Are you an MD?” <Don’t go there Dan…> “No, PhD… I manage the operation of all the universities in Rhode Island.” “Wow, that great. I am a Construction Services manager for Schneider Electric.” “Who is Schneider Electric? Sounds like a German construction company. You make electricity or build...
Continue reading...My Anchorage Project
Many readers of this blog know I did a project for my company (Then TAC, now Schneider Electric) in Anchorage, Alaska. It was for the US Government, the FAA to be precise, at the Air Route Traffic Controll Center located there. This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have ever run. I am not able to show pictures of the project, but all the sight seeing I did while there is linked from this...
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