Statistics make great hooks to draw in an audience. LinkedIn posters know this. Though they don’t seem to be too concerned about supporting those statistics with sources. Whenever I see strong claims backed by stats with no source data, I immediately become skeptical of its validity. Here are two recent examples that stood out: “80%…
☕Good Morning It is lovely to be with you again, my friend. Do you join me in my dreams, or do you simply arrive when I wake? You sing me to life with a sweet, gurgling melody. We’ll spend time together conversing throughout the day, But the time I enjoy best is our quiet companionship…
“Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro. The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child. With one stroke, everything changes.” Make 2025 the year that you turn pro in whatever your art may be. Take it seriously. Put…
Becoming a subject matter expert can accelerate your career advancement. This is especially true earlier on in your career. I was thinking about advice for people early in technical careers, so I went back and read some of my performance reviews from 15 years ago. The common theme that I kept seeing over those years…