Book Review: The Soul of an Octopus

I’m back on my octopus fascination. It is easy to be fascinated with octopuses. They are the closest thing to aliens that we will ever encounter on Earth. The author, Sy Montgomery, is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of over twenty nature books for both adults and children. This is the first book by […]

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Happy New Year 2024!

Happy New Year everyone. I’ve got a few observations as we head into this new year. Christmas Deliveries Usually, we hear each year about logistic delays and late deliveries during the pre-Christmas rush. This year, I didn’t hear anything about this. USPS, FedEx, UPS and Amazon seem to have solved the issues they had in […]

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Have We Become a Nation of Whiners?

Much has been written over the last couple of years about the economy and the difference between how the economy is performing and the perception of how the economy is performing. Specifically, why is there such a disparity between how the economy is doing and how people say it is doing? First, how is the […]

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Book Review: Going Infinite

Michael Lewis first heard about Sam Bankman-Fried at the end of 2021. A friend had asked Lewis to figure out who he was. The friend was about to do a big deal with Sam that would bind their fates, by an exchange of shares in each other’s companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The […]

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Book Review: Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson has written a number of books about great men. I’ve read his biographies of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. I enjoyed both books very much as they are wonderfully written. But I ended up loving Leonardo as a person and detesting Steve Jobs as a miserable person. In any case, I preordered […]

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My Career in Accounting: Changes

This is the third of four parts about my career in accounting. Here are the four topics: My Career in Accounting: The CPA Exam and Licensure My Career in Accounting: The CMA Exam and the Becker Course My Career in Accounting: Changes My Career in Accounting: The State of the Profession The Big Firms During […]

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