Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week. Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences…
Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and…
Over time we accumulate stuff. And it’s on you to determine what of that stuff is valuable. You can keep it all, but then it might be too much to look at or you can reel it in and focus on just what brings you Joy. If it brings you Joy, keep it, if it doesn’t, ask why you have it. Each adventure we take on, we garner more stuff, only because from each adventure…
AI starts off like any tool we use, complementing our jobs, and making it easier to accomplish tasks. Maybe we say “Thank you” at the end of a request and it keeps chugging along. It can save time, and allow us to focus on more enriching opportunities. Or it can be used to eliminate the thing it sought to protect – creativity, people, achievement, growth. What you use it for is up to you and…
Is this where you want to be? Are you taking steps to move where you want to be? Not being where you want to be is fine, not taking steps to get to where you want to be is not fine. Pick and Move.