I have been writing recently about the risks associated with buying enterprise software, advances in cloud computing, and the benefits of software-as-a-service. I have tried to keep those articles fairly vendor agnostic. This article is going to be more self-serving. I am basically going to describe why we at cQuant.io decided to build a new type of energy analytics company. What is wrong …
For many on the east coast, the end of 2017 brought more than Yuletide cheer and presents. A weather event called a “bomb cyclone” brought over a foot of snow followed by weeks of cold weather that ticked new record low temperatures in many of the northeastern United States. Many states experienced temperatures 20-30 degrees below normal and strong winds …
I learned a valuable lesson about risk management the summer after I moved to Boulder, Colorado. Coloradans love to remind others (and each other) they get over 300+days of sunshine each year, and my first year in the state seemed to bear out this anecdotal wisdom. However, what all the jolly weather-snobs fail to mention is that Boulder is also …
Economists that study purchasing behavior understand that people often deceive themselves when buying large ticket items. There are certainly emotional components to purchasing behavior. I have purchased over 10 automobiles in my adult life without understanding the “total cost of ownership” (TCO) of any of them. I tried to make good decisions, but at the end of the day, I really wanted that …