Tag: writing
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AI May Make Your Career Detours More Valuable
Shopify COO Jess Hertz recently described a shift from the traditional “T-shaped” person, someone with broad capabilities and deep expertise in one area, to what she calls an “X-shaped” person. As she put it, AI requires people with “multiple spikes of expertise” who can absorb complexity, learn new spaces quickly, and become capable across several…
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Multiple Clients. Competing Priorities. Constant Context Switching. Here’s How I Keep It Straight.
One of the challenges of working with multiple consulting clients, or even working as a General Manager or a C-level executive in a company, is constantly shifting your attention from one very different problem to another. As an independent consultant, on any given day, I may move from network security to AI to MDM, while…
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How I learn big topics in 30-minute bytes
How I choose what to learn and then how do I learn that big topic in 30 minutes a day
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How I Try to Stay Relevant When Everything Is Changing
One challenge of working in the technology industry is the sheer pace of change. There is always a new model, architecture, company, or idea to understand.For the last 30 years, I’ve made learning part of my daily routine.My approach is simple. I pick a topic I want to understand deeply. I break the topic into…
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