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Chris J Terrell
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Aug 25, 2022

Safety Nets for Knowledge Workers

My 15-year-old daughter started working at Chick-Fil-A, and she cannot use a ladder, a box cutter, or scissors at work until she turns 16. Scissors, really! Are these silly rules? No, business insurance and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are required it. There are many rules if your…

Safety

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Safety Nets for Knowledge Workers
Safety Nets for Knowledge Workers
Safety

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Aug 18, 2022

Agreements, Expectations, and Pay Raises

It happens every year. Complaining. It starts in December and will continue until February and maybe longer. Why do you ask? Annual compensation reviews. Managers dread this time of year. It is budget season, and your managers are fighting for a pile of money to distribute to their direct reports…

Pay Raise

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Agreements, Expectations, and Pay Raises
Agreements, Expectations, and Pay Raises
Pay Raise

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Aug 11, 2022

Complexity, Abstraction, and Simplicity

At their core, computers are simply a device of ones and zeros. They are beautifully complex and binary. However, all of the ones and zeros are hiding behind an abstraction. An abstraction is a layer within a system that hides complexity below. We don’t think about all the hidden complexity…

Thinking

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Complexity, Abstraction, and Simplicity
Complexity, Abstraction, and Simplicity
Thinking

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Aug 4, 2022

Product Stallers: Limits, Timing, Decisions, and Authority

Have you ever been stuck on one of those projects where the same topic comes up, and both sides dig in and defend their positions? When the topic first came up, it was a minor problem. However, this minor item became a critical path item as time passed. …

Project Management

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Product Stallers: Limits, Timing, Decisions, and Authority
Product Stallers: Limits, Timing, Decisions, and Authority
Project Management

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Jul 28, 2022

Measure the Opposite

How is your role measured? How do you measure yourself? These are questions I asked myself this week. It is a New Year, and it is time for annual reviews and a time of reflection. …

Metrics

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Measure the Opposite
Measure the Opposite
Metrics

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Jul 21, 2022

Does My Blind Spot Make Me Look Good

We all have a physical blind spot where the optic nerve joins the eyeball. Our brain tricks us, filling in the spot with what it thinks should be there. We don’t notice this unless we intentionally try to find it. You can find an example here. What is funny about…

Bias

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Does My Blind Spot Make Me Look Good
Does My Blind Spot Make Me Look Good
Bias

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Jul 14, 2022

Ensued by Happiness

Before writing this post, I searched my Audible books and discovered 13 books with “Happy” in the title. Yet when I think about happiness, nothing has impacted me more than a quote from a holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl. “Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make…

Happiness

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Ensued by Happiness
Ensued by Happiness
Happiness

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Jul 7, 2022

Work Dopamine vs. Deep Work

Dopamine What is “Dopamine?” Dopamine is the feel-good chemical in our brain. Dopamine in and of itself is not bad and is essential to have. Increasing Dopamine via healthy activities and food can lead to more satisfaction. So what is the problem? Most of us have become addicted to seeking a…

Deep Work

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Work Dopamine vs. Deep Work
Work Dopamine vs. Deep Work
Deep Work

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Jun 30, 2022

Protest Behavior

Have you ever started looking for a new car? Then you find one you want only to start seeing them everywhere. This post is like that but from my counselor. Missing Connection leads to Protest Behavior. My counselor shared an excellent book about how we connect as humans. …

Psychology

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Protest Behavior
Protest Behavior
Psychology

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Jun 16, 2022

How to Read, Write, and Present Internal Reports

Making a report has never been easier. Most of us sit on mounds of data waiting to be mined for its precious insights. Back in the day, you had to break out your SQL skills and join a bunch of tables together to get the data required. Report writing was…

Presentations

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How to Read, Write, and Present Internal Reports
How to Read, Write, and Present Internal Reports
Presentations

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