Josh McCormack's Blog

July 30, 2020

Just Be Social crossword puzzle

Along with 30-40 people I’ve been on a thread on Twitter for ~3 years where we talk about anything that comes to mind. Friendships have developed, viewpoints have been expanded, a good time has...
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Published on July 30, 2020 13:54

February 25, 2020

Sci-fi Anachronisms and Themes of Concerns of the Time

If you read sci-fi, or watch sci-fi TV or movies, you likely have seen technology that’s missing, or some that’s present that shows it was written before current times. The importance of cell phones...
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Published on February 25, 2020 08:27

February 6, 2020

Should CEOs take care of their employees?

My friend Ted Bauer recently blogged about this CEOs are “unaware” their employees are often struggling. WTF? How? The video he included, of Democrat Katie Porter asking JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon how someone living modestly...
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Published on February 06, 2020 09:26

June 24, 2019

Offering Solutions to Specific Problems

In the early 1990s I was in an introductory Industrial/Organizational Psychology class and the professor, someone who worked more often in the non academic world than in it, told us she saw work transforming...
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Published on June 24, 2019 08:48

June 5, 2019

You’re a failure, and I’m very excited for you

In a February 2018 article in Psychology Today the author guides us through some of the studies and research on expectations. One theme that emerges is there are realistic expectations and premeditated resentments. Let’s...
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Published on June 05, 2019 12:16

January 31, 2019

Cutting to the front of the line – how to network

Years ago, before all of human knowledge was put into The Cloud, there was a company called VMWare that figured out how to do a lot of what we now see as just everyday...
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Published on January 31, 2019 18:27

August 22, 2018

What Should I Charge?

The question comes up all the time, but I’ve seen it again recently – what should I charge? Occasionally people have a definitive answer. Often they say “it depends” and leave it at that....
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Published on August 22, 2018 10:53

June 12, 2018

Anne Frank

Today is June 12th, the birthday of Anne Frank, a little girl of 15 killed by the Nazis. Maybe you’ve heard of Simon Wiesenthal, maybe not. Recent news suggests a lot of people don’t...
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Published on June 12, 2018 09:00

January 25, 2018

Blog writing services

Just to be clear – this isn’t supposed to be a definitive piece. I’m cleaning up files on my computer, and found this research I did on blog writing services – ghostwriting, content marketing...
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Published on January 25, 2018 15:27

December 6, 2017

Journey into the Cloud – Freeing up storage on your computer

I have 500GB of storage on my laptop, and now have less than 5GB of room left. A friend has run out of storage space on Google Drive. Yes, we should clean up old...
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Published on December 06, 2017 12:33