I was recently challenged by my Vantage study group to create a time budget for myself. As soon as you say “budget,” you naturally think “money,” and that’s something else I’m not good at budgeting. By painful experience, I’ve learned to stay within certain limits, and kept more or less on track. But when it […]
Having written two blog articles today while watching the Yoast SEO-a-meter rise and fall with my every input, I’m going to give myself a break and just try to write in English. But that never goes that well. Field Service Management Software in Huntsville AL Well, why did I end up talking about that? In
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My first experience with consulting was when I hired a consultant for my small family business. We’ll call him Bob, because that was actually his name. Bob helped me a lot. As a semi-retired banker, he worked with me for about $500 a month (this was over a decade ago, so don’t draw any conclusions
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Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown, is a book we read recently in the North America/APAC sales team. I think in the spirit of Essentialism I’ll only comment on three points that particularly spoke to me in this book. Everything you say “yes” to requires saying “no” to other things. There is
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My first ever ChatGPT prompt (yes, I’m a late adopter): I then tried the same topic as a country song and it went much, much faster.
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If you experience miasma from reading LinkedIn or other social media, or for that matter at trade shows or networking events, you may be experiencing bulldust. I started discussing this in a low-key, highly interrupted way last year on this blog, but it’s been difficult. I’m not as big an expert on this subject as
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This is going to be low effort. Just walking around the digital water cooler and starting to notice the tiles falling from the ceiling. Fortunately not at MY workplace; we do something useful. Elon is certainly a big part of the specific problem going on right now, this minute, but there’s something rotten about the
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In a previous post I mused about the nature of bulldust and promised to develop a few ideas along these lines. I was beginning to think that promise may have also been bulldust, but I managed to get ahead of life long enough to think about one of my topics: when situations are bulldust-adjacent vs.
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“There’s a joke here somewhere, and it’s on me…” B.F.J Springsteen, American Philosopher I started an extremely well-meaning series on bulldust, and have not gotten far with it. It’s a slippery substance, and while in my head I think it’s fascinating all the ways people inflict each other with it, it seems more challenging to
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Today’s Friday deployment presented me with a few challenges: something or another in the process required an update to PHP 8.0. I had to update the .yaml file to do that, and the way I figured out to do that involved going to github directly – apparently this file isn’t in my local repo. then