30 Things I Learned in 30 Years as a Statistical Consultant – Part 1 of lots
Never fear, I’m not going to post all 30 things in this post. This is a series. A LONG series. Get excited. I was invited to speak at SAS Global Forum next year and it occurred to me after thinking about it for 14.2 seconds that there are plenty of people at SAS and elsewhere
Who’s a 10X Engineer?
A twitter storm erupted recently in response to one person’s thread about how to find a 10x engineer . Since I started programming FORTRAN with punched cards back in 1974, was an industrial engineer in the 1980s and now run a software company, I’ve worked with a few people, rightly or wrongly considered to fall
Stupid Mistakes with SAS I have made
One thing I like about our company a lot is none of our developers fit the stereotype of the 10x coder asshole. Don’t get me wrong, we have more than our share of people who are absolutely great at their jobs. What we don’t have is the arrogant attitude of: What do you mean you
Reusable Blocks are the best thing about Gutenberg
What are reusable blocks and why do you want to use them? This can best be explained by an example. Over at 7 Generation Games, we have a new project under way to create organize the hundreds of videos, presentations and activities we’ve developed with our games into a teacher resource site. Most of these
Where I’ve Been and Malware
I cannot believe that it’s been over two months since I’ve written a post. That is the longest I’ve gone in the ten years I have been writing this blog. I read somewhere that the average blog has the lifespan of a fruit fly – after 31 days most people give it up. That seems
No, a stolen iPhone isn’t a brick: How thieves access your data
Stop and read this. It may save you whole lot of grief and panic. Maybe you’ve heard that a stolen iPhone is nothing more than a brick. Perhaps you feel as if your data is safe. You have a password and it’s not 123456. You have find my iPhone. Allow me to burst your bubble
How to stop gaslighting women in tech
According to that source of all knowledge on the interwebz, Wikipedia, “Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.” Have you ever had a brilliant, super-competent friend who doubted her
I’m hosting a Quora session. What’s a Quora session?
I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know what a Quora session was until someone asked me to do one. Today, as a public service, I will tell you how you can ask me questions on Quora, what a Quora session is and what is Quora. I’ll start in what is probably the order of usefulness.
The statistical knowledge you need the most – almost everywhere
What do a herd of deer and a sea lion have to do with statistics? Friday, I was on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation in North Dakota. Most of the time while I was there, I spent at the Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation Project, an impressively effective group of people who help tribal members with
How old habits are causing you problems
This post DOES relate to you, I am almost certain. Keep reading. As I type this post very slowly, I’m trying to use all 10 fingers. You see, for a few years, I had a real problem with my left thumb due to arthritis. It hurt so badly I couldn’t really use it at all