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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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The Circle of Blog #mydatabelongsto.me

Anyone who reads my material knows I am a walking variety magazine. I just love the force of creation, which is how I can pivot Math.random(360) degrees, several times a day. If you don’t know JavaScript, that’s just a number between 0 and 360. It began with a domain name I will wake up with …

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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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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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Yet Another Reason to Own Your Blog

The LinkedIn Challenge I maintain a lot of different social media platforms, and each has their own nuances. In today’s adventure, I simply wanted to share a post from Ben Taylor, Dataiku’s Chief AI Strategist. But I wanted to do it a certain way. Here’s what I wanted: I wanted to keep Ben’s comments on …

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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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Three Simple Steps to a Personal Plan for a Happy 2023!!

TLDR Just a quick post that offers 3 simple steps to a top level New Year plan, along with some hints about what I will be focusing on in 2023. Step 1: Reflection Every year I write a PRD (Personal Reflection Document). OMG, no I do not call it that. But each year I read …

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