Tag Archives: 21st Century

Social Networking Results

The world  has changed in the workplace – that’s an understatement.  The most obvious is that everybody is a free agent. We all know that the days of staying at one company for  your whole career is from a time … Continue reading

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Predicting the Future

Part of wondering what is next either for ourselves or for the country or for the human race, one starts to look at how to see into the future. When I look back at how things have evolved in my career,  … Continue reading

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Production As a Means Not an End

He had forgotten the simple emotions of childhood, and perhaps never encountered the delights of youth.  He believed in production, that useful figment of economy, as if it had been real like laughter;   Page 67 ..ploughs and butter-churns were but … Continue reading

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New Years Observations

I haven’t posted for awhile but I have 6 drafts awaiting review and publishing. I am a person who likes the new year to review past assumptions and to make any corrections from last year.  I started seeing a pattern … Continue reading

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Meta-Industrial Engineers

In the book Natural Capitalism by Hawken and Lovins, it speaks of meta-industrial engineers who are creating zero emission industrial parks as part of the positive look ahead of what is coming when we give up on petroleum and over … Continue reading

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Letter to New Industrial Engineers

This is my letter to the interns who I worked with in the summer of 2011 and anyone else who is going into the field.   I have worked in the industrial/manufaturing engineering field for over 30 years.  The reason I … Continue reading

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Books That Brought Women Into the Over Culture

Here are a few old favorites that I keep going back to:  You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tanner originally published in 1990 and Games Mother Never Taught You by Betty Lehan Harragan originally published in 1977.   They both have gone on to write … Continue reading

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Doris Lessing Books

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I have found myself going back to the authors I have loved over the years.  One of my favorites is Doris Lessing.  She has the pulse on the human race especially from a woman’s perspective.  She wrote a 5 books … Continue reading

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Review of Howl by Allen Ginsberg

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