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An Annual Ritual

An Annual Ritual

I recently wrapped up a trifecta of speaking engagements. Three IASA conferences, three cities, in three days.  It was a minor miracle of airline travel as I traveled from secondary airport to secondary airport - no direct flights - and made it to my appointed...

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7 Months of Github Copilot @ Gain Compliance

7 Months of Github Copilot @ Gain Compliance

The way I write code hasn’t really changed that much since my early days as a J2EE developer.  Patterns I established then are still pretty close to what I use today (in the limited time I am still in the code).  Languages, frameworks, tools, testing approaches, and...

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High Expectations Software

High Expectations Software

In 2016, Gain Compliance identified that the market for statutory financial reporting software was woefully underserved. The options that insurance carriers had to fulfill their statutory financial reporting requirements were, by modern standards, pretty...

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Year 7

Year 7

Another year in the books. Time, once again, for our annual introspection. (By way of reference, here are the retrospectives from last year, our 5th anniversary, our 4th anniversary, 3rd anniversary, and first. Somehow, we missed the second year – probably for good...

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Post Conference Reflections

Post Conference Reflections

Following up Gain's last post, here are my reflections after having spent several days in the Exhibitor Hall and a few sessions at IASA Xchange last week: Compared this to Gain’s first IASA National Conference in 2018, the feel was a bit different. Gone are the big...

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Live and In-Person

Live and In-Person

It was 2018 and I was in Nashville attending my first IASA event. I was somewhat sweaty from helping to break down our exhibitor booth and I was sitting in this spectacular atrium of the hotel and convention center that held the event. I was feeling that good kind of...

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Startups and the Scientific Method

Startups and the Scientific Method

In Adam Grant’s 2021 book ‘Think Again’, the author suggests that we should think like scientists in both our work and our lives. We should approach our opinions and beliefs as theories that we test to see if they align with observable facts, and if they don’t, we...

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Built Different

Built Different

It’s remarkable how little innovation there has been in the world of insurance statutory financial reporting. For well over the past decade, reporting teams have been resigned to using outdated and backwards technology with questionable performance and reliability to...

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