What makes a leader? Think Google knows?

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/heres-how-google-knows-in-less-than-5-minutes-if-someone-is-a-great-leader.html

In a surprise to no one, amazingly, no one likes to work in the wide-open spaces.

Report: U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces

Welcome Back! Been a while since I did this. However, something caught my eye today and thought it was a great way to get back into posting. This article is fascinating and I thought this would be a good place to keep it.

Have fun with it. I did.

Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

Went back and did some cleanup on this blog since I found over 10,000 spam comments on some of the posts.

Turn off the comments.

Never read the comments!

Looked back on some of them and found some posts in May 2016 chronicling the first round of layoffs and how concerned I was over those. Still never dreamed it would happen to me a year later.

Nearly a year has passed since I last posted.

So much has happened since then. No words. Found out June 29th I was going to be laid off on July 11th. That feeling of being lost will always be with me. Something to never forget.

Promise to work more on getting this up and running again as there is so much to say now.