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Breakfast Cereal “Trope” and the “Tooth Decay” of Futurism

Background OK, I have seen the word “trope” used to label an archetype or derivative of an archetype in the media industry (“chill girl”, “misunderstood billionaire”, “femme fatale”, etc.). Maybe this whole post uses a word that doesn’t mean what I think it means (thank you Princess Bride), but let’s tee this up anyway. I …

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Using xAI to Fact Check 42

We all know thar 42 is “The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything” thanks to the deep analytical work titled “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams. But, apparently, Elon Musk seeks to fact check this answer using his new xAI venture. I am, of course, as excited …

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Crafting Gender-Neutral Job Position Descriptions in the Tech Industry

The Challenge As in many firms, managers work with their talent acquisition team to craft a position description, the firm posts it out “there” and receives a diverse array of applicants. That’s good! Recently though, it seems like the posts in my corner of the world have not been attracting female applicants. I poked around …

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Psyching Up for That Presentation

I was talking to my wife today, and she’s delivering a couple of sessions tomorrow at a forum in Canada. She has reviewed all the documents, developed her presentation, and has all the talking points. How many of us have been there? I asked her how she felt, and it was “excited and intimidated.” That’s …

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Celebrating Life’s Quiet Awesomeness and Embracing the Power of Thinking Small

I have been writing a TON of content and there is so much going on, but none of it is fit for public consumption! At least, not yet. I’m currently focused on some quiet awesomeness, so let’s make that today’s theme. In a world filled with endless content and noise, it’s easy to overlook the …

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A mature, contextual internet is better than an SEO, influencer internet

It started with an odd capitalism vs co-op vlogger post There I was, on some social media outlet, thumbing through content. Can’t find it now. . . but there was this guy ranting on capitalism. His comparison was something like: A company with 100 employees buys a new machine which doubles production And after this …

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Rosy Glasses & DEI taking on the Dystopian Future

TLDR I read this article by Douglas Rushkoff, about the ultra-rich giving up on humanity. Maybe the subsequent book (“Survival of the Richest”) is truth, maybe fiction, maybe a bit of both. I get the notion of “preparedness” manifests differently for each of us, but this read inspired some contemplation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion …

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Sending me to #GPTRehab!! ? And I said, No no no… ?

Yeah – this is the post I posted about wanting to post! Keep in mind, LinkedIn will probably make you login to be seeing of the things. One Day, on LinkedIn I was trolling through the content, and I saw this cool post from Ben. He was all like, Love the disruption for people that …

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My 2023 Pocket Guide

TLDR Scroll to the Pocket Guide heading if you don’t want the anecdotal adventures; however, unlike a lot of authors that spam crap into their articles for SEO, I tend to hold my anecdotal musings to be of a much higher quality level. *sound of air escaping from a balloon* OK, let’s deflate that ego …

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