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Prior to last year, my world was project-based. That means I was given the task of supporting teammates in their journey to learn a specific topic. That’s typically a new project that IT was launching and people needed training to use it right.

I know, you could say that if it was easy enough to

I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT on and off for the past month with varying success. I’m sure for some types of training it could be useful, but overall for what I do, it’s a novelty.

One of my favorite things to do to make training a bit more exciting

What motto do you live by?

Lately I’ve been focusing a great deal on the less is more way of living. I don’t mean saying it and then living by the more is more motto either.

Saying one thing but doing another seems to be popular. When I say less is more, it resonates with

I’ve wanted to write a book for a long time, but I’m still no closer to actually doing it. Before anybody writes a book, they should have a pretty clear goal. I don’t have a goal or even an idea. So, writing a book at this point would be a waste of time.

That doesn’t

The latest business book I finished is Find Your Why by Simon Sinek with David Mead & Peter Docker. This book was not really content that should have been a book, though. I feel like I wasted a lot of time because of that.

There were a few tidbits

My most recent read was Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell which I’m not sure why it’s named that. Aside from taking place in a London heatwave where there was water rationing and such there’s nothing heatwave about it.

It was very fitting, though, because where I live (northern California)

There have been some good business books I’ve read and some bad. There aren’t too many in the middle which I can’t say were excellent and I also can’t say they’re bad.

The most recent business-related book I’ve read, Emotional Agility by Susan David is right in the middle.

The books I’ve been reading for the past few years have brought me all over the world and during many times. I’ve traveled by book to France, Russia, China, Canada, England, and everywhere in between from thousands of years BCE to the relatively present.

My most recent book, Flight

I had a lot of high hopes for In Awe by John O’Leary but in the end it did let down a bit. It’s not because it wasn’t a good book or that it wasn’t interesting to read, it was. The reason is that what I had hoped to

I started Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg just after the last business book I finished. My first impression of the book was not spectacular, as I previously wrote. Just because my first impression wasn’t good with Range of Motion doesn’t mean I’m going to stick