I’m running an experiment this year. Anytime there is something that is simple and might be delegated, I see if it can be automated by tech instead of given to an intern.
I’ve been
Category: Leadership
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Automate the Intern Tasks
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Capitalize on the Tools
I’ve been thinking about AI a little more lately after some recent conversations. Since OpenAI launched ChatpGPT, it’s arguably taken more investment dollars relative to the return than any other investment vertical in history.
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There’s a lot of buzz around it. Buzz is fine and value is better. I’ve spent the past several months working within a few AI driven tools and here’s the thing i’ve found. -
Regrets and Perspective
Let’s talk about regrets for a minute. Sometimes, looking back, I wish we would not have sold Unicom. Sometimes, I wish I wouldn’t have removed my position in some property holdings and
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LastPass and What To Do Next
Breaking the News
For those of you who don’t follow this type of stuff….LastPass was breached. http://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
First, why does that matter to anyone? It’s a good question if you don’t follow any security news, or maybe don’t know what LastPass is exactly. The short version is it’s largest company that allows you to store passwords for all your things online. If you’re like me you already see the problem here, but to make it clearer I’ll just say that 30 Million people use this service to keep their passwords safe and secure. That kind of treasure trove is like the internet version of Smaug the Dragon’s horde of gold in the Hobbit. You’re just inviting attacks, and that’s exactly what happened.Wait But Why?
Why would you store your passwords online? Well, there are other alternatives for how to store your passwords.
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Calling Out The Gold Organizationally
When dealing in the non-profit space, there is a tendency for things to move slower than they should and for inner-organizational accountability not to exist. The way I’ve seen this play out is: (more…)
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Health and Boundaries – 2
Last time I posted I wrote about how I’ve finally been in a recovery state from depression. It took me about 10 months to gain all of my energy back and I’m still learning lessons from the time I was experience a depressed state.
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Health and Boundaries
Recovery is tough.
I’m just now recovering from a year’s worth of depression. No, I haven’t been in depression recently. I finally came up for breath almost 10 months ago, but I’m just now at a place I’d describe as recovered. I’ll go into more detail in the next several weeks. about it. Describing the why and the what of my experience and the how of recovery.
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Being Present and Scheduling
Resets are a good thing
Years ago, I was going through a reset on my life. I needed it. Too little sleep, not enough exercise, and too much work were leading to a bad health situation where my body was about to hand me some divorce papers. (more…)
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Inventiveness and Leading
You can’t know everything.
No one should expect you to. As I’ve told different teams I’ve lead “We make the best decisions with what we know now.” Even in rocket science, you have to have some version of a “margin of error”. I mean, come on…. (more…)