by Leif Jensen | Jun 27, 2016 | General |
I was reading an Op-ed piece in the WSJ, about “What’s Killing Jobs and Stalling the Economy”. The May jobs report was bad. The Op-ed piece, referred to an aspect of the nation’s history, and introduced me to the process called “creative destruction”. This...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 22, 2016 | General |
There have been protests at the McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters recently. The protestors are demanding a higher minimum wage. The problem is that most McDonald’s are owned by independent owner operators and not by the corporate offices. I found an old...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 21, 2016 | General |
I have random quotes on all of the pages of my website. They are financial in nature and surprising after years of them being there, finally with the new website I am getting comments on them. Apparently they were surprised by the fact that some of them were...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 20, 2016 | General |
A friend and client of mine passed away last month. He was important to me as well as this blog as one of the major IT people whose knowledge I respected, I quizzed him with regularity on what was new and exciting to him and what was on the horizon for the rest of...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 15, 2016 | General |
When I had my website redone years ago I had asked about the view on phones. The designer didn’t have a clue, IT said not to worry because the phones allowed for resizing. Then a few years later, I was told that I needed to have a website that was mobile...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 14, 2016 | General |
It seems that unicorns do exist and they have been around for a while. A Unicorn is a start-up company valued at over $1 billion, and private investors have put $362 billion over 5 years. Thus pumping up the paper value of unicorns, the largest being Uber,...