Personal blog on early retirement, selling tradelines, and analytics projects. I write about what I learn as I am learning it.
A few years ago I helped build a truck routing system for a logistics company. It was a real project — real trucks, real delivery stops, real time windows, real money. The client spent around $2 million on it. Then the pandemic hit. The project died. And the code sat on my hard drive doing nothing.
Last week I turned it into a web app.
Continue reading “The $2M Project That Died in a Pandemic (And What I Did With the Code)”
Years ago, I was doing gigs on Fiverr. Mostly Excel work — macros, pivot tables, solver models. I had a profile and a handful of listings, and I’d written about that whole love/hate experience back in 2017 (short version: the clients who treat you like a vending machine are the price you pay for the ones who bring you genuinely interesting problems). One day, a genuinely interesting problem showed up.
A training company needed help scheduling their staff. Multiple clients, multiple courses, multiple instructors, limited hours, shared equipment, weird simultaneous constraints. Classic Operations Research territory. I said yes.
Continue reading “The Client Who Changed His Mind (And Why I Finished the Job Anyway)”
…And sometimes I wonder why.
Anywho. I mostly do Excel gigs on Fiverr. Ah, by the way, Fiverr.com is a website and marketplace where freelancers showcase the “gigs” they are prepared to work on. There is some literature about Fiverr on Amazon. You can check what I offer on the top menu on this blog under “Services”, the submenu links to some of the gigs (and clicking “Services” links to my profile on Fiverr).