Category: Skills
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How to Read More
You can build your identity as a reader with structured practice, no matter where your skills are today. Here are some of my favorite techniques from beginner, through intermediate, and on to advanced. Think consistency over intensity. Beginner – You will be surprised how much you can read with only these methods. Intermediate – When…
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Behavioral Interviews
Self-awareness, real-world application, and cultural alignment are the top three areas that I hope to assess during a behavioral interview. I put together a few questions that you will want to ensure you answer during an interview. Self-awareness: Does your self-perception match reality? Can you recognize your own strengths and weaknesses? Do you make informed…
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Find and Cater to Your Audience
Kind of crazy, but I have been presenting on leadership and career development for over a decade now. I was taking a walk down memory lane and stumbled across one of my earliest slide decks. I actually thought it was great. Many of the ideas and style carry through to today. The problem was that…
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Rules for Cognitive Offloading
You may have seen the recent MIT paper presenting data suggesting that using ChatGPT for your writing causes your cognitive abilities to atrophy from lack of use. So, I thought it was worth thinking a bit about when one might choose to take the trade-off of ease and speed as opposed to writing the painful…
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AI Skills: SPP vs GPP
Determining the skills for the future of work in an AI world is showing up everywhere right now. If you know me, you’ll understand that seeing reading and writing listed as one of the most out-of-focus skills gave me some pause. I’m not suggesting that future knowledge workers will be spending their workdays reading in…
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Drillers are Killers
I’m not quite sure to whom I should attribute this quote. One of my training partners shared it with me recently. He’s a twenty-something cage fighter 👊🏽. But don’t worry, you don’t need to step into the Octagon to put this advice to use. You’ve probably heard of “flow state” where you execute effortlessly. We…
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Hard things are hard
Yes…I know…Quite the hot take. 🌶️ This time of year, it feels like a reminder is in order. It doesn’t matter if you have 🗓️The perfect productivity system. 🏋️The perfect workout program. 💰The perfect financial plan. Success in any of those domains is still going to be hard. 🪨 Systems are helpful, maybe even necessary…
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How I read 60 books in a year with S.M.A.R.T goal setting
Specific: Clearly define what you want to accomplish. Avoid vague descriptions. Print books. Read end-to-end. Measurable: Ensure you can track your progress and measure the outcome. 5 books a month. I tracked the books on my planning whiteboard and checked them off as I completed them. Achievable: Set realistic goals that are attainable given your…
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Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro.
“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…
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AI and Automation to add YouTube Video Description and Keywords
Here is a short video showing how I leveraged AI and automation to reduce the amount of work I need to do to put out content. In this example I start with a text transcript of a video that I uploaded to YouTube. I ask generative AI to create a description and keywords, then run…