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How To Persuade The Unpersuadable
Carefully nuturing your strong belief in a project/product/service can persuade the know-it-all naysaying boss to get behind a winning idea.

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Mar 5, 20212 min read


Virtual Tokens of ID. Closer to Realizing the Dream?
Imagine having your key credentials immediately verified online! Enter Azure Active Directory that holds approved tokens rather documents.

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Mar 4, 20212 min read


Coca-Cola Will Swap It's Plant-Based Bottling Capacity for 100% Recycled PET
Coca Cola to shift from plant-based bottles to 100% recycled PET for some products in the U.S. cutting use of new plastic by more than half.

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Mar 2, 20211 min read


Broad agreement at G-20. Continue to support economies through the pandemic and economic recovery.
In a virtual meeting the G20 convened and agreed to continue supporting the economies through recovery from the COVID pandemic.

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Mar 1, 20212 min read


Don't Call The Maytag Repairman He Went Down the Whirlpool & Prices Increased
A decade of tariffs helped Whirlpool gobble up Maytag, increase costs to consumers by 12% and eventually moved foreign makers to America.

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Feb 27, 20212 min read


Speculation of Inflation-Cruise Bookings, Oil, The Dollar & Something Called Breakeven
As we anticipate emerging from the pandemic and putting nearly another $2trn into the hands of Americans worry of inflation rises.

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Feb 26, 20212 min read


Surveillance-Police & The People Seek to Clarify Acceptable Use
Advanced surviellance tools combined with AI have the potential for misuse. Citizens, politicians and police struggle to find alignment.

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Feb 13, 20212 min read


Increasing Minimum Wage Most Experts Believe Little If Any Impact on Job Number
Prominent economic researchers data suggests raising minimum wage has little impact on job numbers & there are other stop gap programs.

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Feb 10, 20211 min read


Austin-Top VC Funding
Austin startups pull in Venture Capital for companies ranging from Tattoo Removal to data tracking from satellites. Bumble seeks IPO!

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Feb 7, 20212 min read


Buy American-Talk Versus Practice
Pushing Federal Procurement to favor "Made in the USA" is appealing but ignores supply chain realities and international trade agreements.

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Feb 4, 20211 min read


Businessweek Interviewed Pfizer CEO Regarding Covid
U.S. underperformed responding to COVID but efforts of private industry & cross-collaboration with agencies and academia saved us from worse

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Feb 3, 20213 min read


Neighborhood/Building Power Issues-MicroGrid Networks to the Rescue
Batteries to stabilize electric delivery will become common in buildings and neighborhoods. A small cube unit is made by Fluenceenergy.com

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Feb 1, 20211 min read


Austin Skyline 43 Towers Rising or Planned
Pandemic aside corporate RELOs are hitting records & high rise builders are aligned with 17 on the way & 26 in-the-works or in planning.

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Jan 31, 20211 min read


Amy's Ice Cream & The Pandemic
Austin's Iconic Amy's Ice Cream combined great financial management, employee transparency, government PPP, innovation & purpose to survive!

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Jan 25, 20212 min read


Carbon Dioxide Capture to Make Oil Extraction and Use Carbon Neutral
Sucking CO2 from air may save the planet. OXY envisions a future that removes CO2 using it to extract oil & making its use carbon neutral.

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Jan 23, 20212 min read


RELO Austin 2021 Much Like 2020
Pandemic hasn't slow relocation to sunbelt cities like Austin. Austin will be the number 1 destination in 2021 despite rising prices of 11%

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Jan 21, 20211 min read


Are we headed for another Supercycle?
Gold aside, the pandemic depressed commodity prices. Oil aside, most are now well-beyond Jan 2020 levels. Are we poised for a supercycle?

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Jan 20, 20211 min read


Austin-Big Employers & Sectors
Big organizations having more than 500 employees here in the Austin have roles primarily in IT 32%, Retail 24%, Health Care 20%.

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Jan 19, 20211 min read


Leaving California $$$$ for Austin $$-$$$ Better Family Life & 20% Savings for Firms
Moving to Austin from California tranlates to a better & more affordable family lifestyle & for firms savings up to 20%.

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Jan 18, 20212 min read


Apple Enters Fiercely Competitive EV Market
Electric Vehicle makers include Tesla, traditional automakers, Rivian&Others and new entrants Alibaba, Baidu, Foxconn and now Apple.

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Jan 17, 20211 min read
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