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Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Getting calendar spam? Fix: Google Calendar → Settings → Event settings → "Add invitations to my calendar" → change to "When I respond to the invitation in email." Legit invites still work — they just wait in your email until you accept. Ten seconds. Do it now.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
It is 2026, and one of the most common ways to fix problems in Windows continues to be “restart the machine”.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Does Congress have any power these days?
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
You don't pick your bosses; you decide who you are with them: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/three-bad-managers/
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
If you’re waiting on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or are still simply mad about Game of Thrones, I highly recommend Episode 4, which brought me to tears.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
I kind’a think club music sounds all the same, then Spotify sneaks a new track by OVERWERK in my playlist, and I realize I am quite wrong.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Hustle is what we call chaos to make it sound fun.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Enterprise software makes a huge amount of money on services, which are humans who build stuff specific to the customer on the Enterprise platform. Problem is: if you’ve built an OK platform and OK integration, you don’t need those humans anymore — thanks, robots!
So, Enterprise plays with shipping a good platform, and configuration/API/connector technology will be fine, but their service dollars are going to go way down, along with the disappearance of a lot of jobs. 😬
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, we can’t.” Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, but now I will think about it a lot.” The latter sometimes change to Yes delightfully unexpectedly.
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Spotify has a “build a playlist with a prompt” feature that does exactly what you think. This mornings: “Create a chronological list of Led Zeppelin hits, but sprinkle some Def Leppard in there ironically.”
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Is that post designed to make you angry? https://www.ragecheck.com/
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
I am, once again, testing a productivity system. It's going about as well as you'd expect: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/i-hate-fish/
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
While I am uncertain if normal users will adapt to the chatbot conversational interfaces, I am blown away by how quickly typing sentences to a robot makes every search interface I’ve used my entire life look like a clumsy toy.