Improve Profitability and Productivity: Why Working More is not the Solution

Most employers want to see their salaried employees work more than 40 hours per week. This is a flawed philosophy because it assumes that more work time equals more output or that putting in more time will equal more profit. This leads me to the following question.

Which employee is more valuable? Continue reading

Why the hell would I want to wait for retirement?

Society has been telling us that we should be saving and working 40+ years so that someday we can “retire”.

Things will probably slow down in some regard when we get older, but there is a general idea that we will stop working and do nothing at that point (which is absurd). Boredom is not a companion that I want to live with on a daily basis when I get to that age. Continue reading

Add Related Posts to WordPress without a Plugin

Over the last month I’ve implemented quite a bit of changes to the site, including adding a section to each post that displays links to related posts. I use WordPress for this website and I thought about looking for a plugin that would do the trick. However, I’ve been trying to cut down how many plugins I use to make it easier to upgrade and I came up with an alternative solution that works great. Continue reading

PHP Script Tips: Cool Secrets of PHP

Over the years I’ve come across some things in PHP that are not obvious, but are worth mentioning. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all of the useful tricks that you can do with PHP. If you have anything to add to the tips, please comment! Continue reading