{"id":105,"date":"2010-09-14T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-06-27T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:10:20","slug":"personal-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/personal-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Analysis Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Commuting through LA traffic I had a chance to hear tons of recorded books, including The Wealth of Nations from Adam Smith &#8212; a couple of times. Though I&#8217;m no economist, it did set the record straight in my mind on the general direction a capitalist society should take. Some capitalist countries have sadly missed the mark in at least one major area; supporting the economy through military spending. &#8212; A major screw-up according to Jedi master Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hard-core analyst is the sort of person who can&#8217;t stop turning stuff over in his or her mind and learning new things. They have an incurable disease and can&#8217;t stop thinking about what&#8217;s wrong and how to make it right. Of course nobody can be right all the time and maybe not even very often. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thought\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">thought<\/span><\/a> is a major part of being human, much the same as democracy and free enterprise a solid path to a more peaceful and stronger world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This site is where I scribble down stuff that hits me in the shower, while biking through the country side or working with clients. It&#8217;s also a place to note lessons learned on the job and keep my document archive so I can use and share them with the business analysis community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It helps to get stuff off my chest and who knows; maybe others with the analysis bug will enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuting through LA traffic I had a chance to hear tons of recorded books, including The Wealth of Nations from Adam Smith &#8212; a couple of times. Though I&#8217;m no economist, it did set the record straight in my mind on the general direction a capitalist society should take. Some capitalist countries have sadly missed<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/personal-notes\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-owner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}