It’s Not Like a “Y”!

As a young computer programmer, I unwittingly demonstrated the importance of eliciting complete and clear requirements, even for a modification to an existing system. Less than three years into my first programming job at a large company, I was asked to make a change to a system that streamlined the ordering of supplies from “trusted”Continue reading “It’s Not Like a “Y”!”

What We Value

Long considered by some to be more lucky than skilled as a general and not among the country’s best presidents, Ulysses Grant’s legacy is being reassessed by many historians. Ron Chernow’s 2017 book, Grant, is one of three “major, sympathetic biographies of Grant [that] have been published…since 2012,” according to Marty Schladen of The ColumbusContinue reading “What We Value”