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The Egg Test: Measuring Community Like We Measure Engineering Teams

How we might measure the health of a community by its responsiveness to simple requests for help—like borrowing an egg—drawing parallels to how efficiency is measured in tech teams

#community#networks#health#engineering#teams
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The Professional Rebrand: How to Own Your Narrative

How to rebrand yourself professionally by controlling your narrative through content creation, strategic networking, and refining external signals to align with your true expertise.

#career#jobs#technology#work#narrative#fractional
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Cutting Corners: How a Paper Cutter Saved My Flowers (and My Day)

A playful reflection on how repurposing an old office tool—a paper cutter—helped solve an unexpected flower dilemma, while exploring the broader idea of adapting tools for new challenges.

#creativity#technology#productivity#ai
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AMA: Getting Roasted by College Students on Responsible AI

How teaching a two-hour lab session at my Alma Mater gave me a very important look into the student vantage point on responsible AI (and why more of us should be listening)

#ai#journalism#technology#learning
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Muppet-Making for Grown-Ups

When I spent a lunch-and-learn making muppets with peers, I was reminded why we sometimes need a little extra nudge to work creatively in groups, and why we need more of this energy right now

#creativity#experimentation#play#innovation#ai#technology#learning
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Defining AI-Shaped Problems

How adopting an adaptive mindset to integrating new technology into our personal and professional workflows can help us tackle small, AI-shaped problems that incrementally build into bigger solutions over time

#ai#technology#transformation#learning
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Everyone is a Developer: The Power of AI in Expanding Innovation

How AI is reshaping the definition of who can be a developer by making technical innovation more accessible to non-engineers, as I saw first-hand through live demos at our first Decoded Futures workshop last week.

#ai#developers#technology#innovation#nonprofits#learning
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Network Collapse: How to Leverage Your Connections for Missed Opportunities

As a fractional worker juggling projects, I often find that my network helps me catch missed opportunities or pulls me back into things I didn’t even realize were still in the mix.

#fractional#work#network#connections#community
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The Importance of Getting At Bat’s in Parenting and in Life

If doing it the first time always sucks, why not just get it out of the way as soon as possible? How our parenting philosophy has become a really helpful way to build resiliency as parents, and in life

#parenting#resiliency#chaos#change
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Shoe Shopping for Your Career: Finding the Right Fit for Right Now

How shopping for a job is more like shopping for a pair of shoes than following a linear, prescribed career path. Just pick the pair you need right now. (The rest can stay in your closet, no stress.)

#jobs#career#shoes#shopping