Adrian G. Simmons

🚚 **I'VE MOVED!!** 🪧 Follow my **new Microblog** below for my latest business thinking, professional resources, & occasional humor (dad-joke style) 😁 adriangsimmons.com Cheers & see you there! 🍻

MD family & medical leave program (FAMLI) going thru *major* changes in last two years -> --Official page: paidleave.maryland.gov/emplo… --Good analysis: sequoia.com/2024/05/maryland…

Some insights into the *private equity trend* moving through the small firm accounting space journalofaccountancy.com/new… (via @AICPA_JofA, via @jdrewJOA )

Sunday laugh via ⁦@speedbumpcomic⁩ via ⁦@baltimoresun⁩ 😅

“Planning is essential. Plans are worthless.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower, architect of D-Day Translation: It’s what you learn & think through in the planning process that enables you to adapt & overcome, since no plan survives first contact with reality. #StrategyThoughtForTheDay :)

Liking the @baltimoresun ‘s new mobile app - Nice clean viewing, resolution at zoomed level, simple navigation, & functional article sharing Well done, well done indeed

The @MDComptroller released her Apr 2024 "State of the Economy Brief" covering the topic of immigration & the economy Available here: marylandtaxes.gov/reports/st…

New IRS process for obtaining taxpayer transcripts - eesh: if I get one more i.d. number from the IRS, this is gonna be crazy (SSN, PTIN, CAF, EFIN, IP PIN, ...) #AICPATownHall #TaxTwitter

“You escape competition through authenticity – no one can beat you, at being you.“ – Jimmy Carr, standup comic buff.ly/3w8c2jV

I‘d seen this effect before, but this is just an extreme example of - wow (reverse pinch to zoom)

This is great! 😃 Welcome back Cal! 🫡⚾️🧡👍🏼 #orioles

Encouraged to see the fresh energy & innovation rolling out on the @evernote platform – Looking forward to taking advantage of these new features in every day activity! teapawt.net/evernote/status/177521…

@ #TaxTwitter This has been fun: been using voice recognition to compose our customer narrative around results of their tax calculation ... Every time I say "your gross receipts were higher/lower..." -> It gets transcribed as "your grocery seats were higher/ lower..." 🤪

For a laugh break … 😀

Sone data confirming anecdotal patterns we’ve been observing w/i small business community: ‘The September XSBI sales results marked the largest decline in sales since May 2020 & the longest run of consecutive declines in the history of this series.’ xero.com/us/media-releases/u…

“Is the subscription economy over? Subscriber fatigue, and what it means for modern business“ The updated thinking: “total monetization” Interesting food for thought … buff.ly/43EHt1M via @asktsoe

First 3 months in rearview mirror - 9 months remaining -> Fresh beginning today!

Here it comes ... 😀🧢⚾️

O’s sale to Bernstein finalized - It’s official! (And hello Opening Day!) buff.ly/4aA4buf

Our family’s prayers for all involved in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse 🙏 buff.ly/497RPIp