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At my org -

I've been using it to counter disappointing performance reviews in a professional way that aligns with policy to "further develop the employee". I've use it to create first drafts of proposals for changing business processes (saved me hours of time just outlining an argument). I've uploaded most of our PDFs and had it do some "fuzzing" in a sense to find logic errors, or slightly diverging interpretations of policy terms. This has been used to feedback to our policy and planning folks to cover a hole, or clarify some random document. I've definitely used AI to respond to a bad coworker or supervisor when I'm depressed I have to suffer under/around them. I still proofread the mistakes, but I make more mistakes when I'm trying to sound professional and just depressed about the work. Took this to a dark place, but there's more success than papering over BS. I've helped get 4 new benefits for our employee type with my proposals and the supporting "evidence" the LLM can drag up and justify in an opening brief. The type of employee I am is expected to receive 22% higher pay this year.

I used to think I don't have the bandwidth or headspace for understanding our collection of policy documents. There are rare experts. LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for m e to contribute. I wish I could be specific, but I helped uncover that certain benefits were not available to the type of employee I am, and how previous pay comparisons were done assuming something about total compensation. Well, my employee doesn't have benefits so the numbers they were comparing against were not representative of us. Got a proposal in there, an got a few executives to say "ohh".

It's been fun.

Hmm. I will say from past experiences I've only found the 'valley girl' accent to be in certain parts of California, and not representative of Californians. Growing up I remember when my sister and her friends adopted this style of speaking for a time. Usually at school, this was (from my perception) to project an air of being disinterested in bored in conversation toward authority figures. I also found it when someone wasn't capable of demonstrating a deep knowledge of something (where the bias comes into effect). I know it's incorrect, but I have many friends that think Californians don't have an innate accent and I've often thought this about how I sound when going elsewhere.

I think your comment makes sense, and I appreciate the way you detailed this.

I work in a very large organization with 50,000 people. It's painful and discouraging listening to the person at the top, or their close deputies, because the documents they publish for mission goals are so abstract and boundless. Nothing I want ever seems directly addressed in these documents that get passed to all of us.

However, I've learned that the middle managers below C suite are looking at these objectives and justifying their own plans in alignment with this. Whatever the people who actually "do" want to do in 2025, must be in support of this abstract crap that frustrates me.

I've had more success in the last 2 years aligning my wants and interests with those of my middle managing-leadership, as they orient toward the executives.

Executives are often trying to enable with vapid bullshit, and really it just shows they shouldn't talk to the people who "do". I think a better way of approaching the workforce and inspiring loyalty to the org, is to trust a deputy to read you into their particular program area so the high-level executive can come in and speak "to you" at an unexpected/encouraging moment. I've seen that done well, but not all hands messaging - ever.

(All blanket statements have exceptional circumstances where they should be disregarded.)

If you sound disinterested and don't articulate your speech for the technical audience you have -> you deserve the perception you get.

Biases exist for a reason. If I'm not hearing the detail I'm looking for or the sincerity I can trust, I know I'm not your audience.

Why would I blame a bank when it's easy to impersonate me?

There are root-cause issues here when identifying a US citizen, and US law enforcement.

I watched this, and the commentary from the 2nd tour guide seems non-serious. I did think the "valley girl" accent is what threw me off, but I stopped watching at "super cool sled". I just don't understand who their audience is with this type of commentary.

Why are we blaming the companies because the police are easy to impersonate?

I think I'm misunderstanding what this can be used for, but something I'd love to see become "perfect" is preserving a GUI application state across reboots/logins/etc. Especially with flatpak GUI apps.

I'm equating this to condition-less coding, where you're trying to eliminate branching logic with bitwise operators or other math.

I appreciate you making this distinction; it's one I haven't understood clearly. My outside impression is that right-to-work is a campaign to smear unions, though I understand in some areas/professions they can only hire union workers.

I'm not saying it's practical for everyone, but while the default is LinkedIn I have found great opportunities without it.

Trading 1 trash platform for another. LinkedIn could be such a great place if it didn't abuse your information and subscribe to such dark patterns. I still remember having my entire address book harvested and spammed (way back when). I will never forget that. I will never trust LinkedIn. Doesn't matter what they do.

I maintain a daily email to myself in a shared mailbox. I have 3 sections:

SIGNIFICANT

  \* topic1

    \* this happened

  \* topic2

DONE

  \* This project

    \* Made this change

    \* Made another change

  \* Some training

    \* Completed this section

TODO ...

I'm in a setting where I'm incredibly temporary. I could be tasked elsewhere tomorrow. Every day I reply to my previous email and work on the draft throughout the day as my notebook. At the end of the day I send it, received in the mailbox I'm attending. I title the email "Captain's Log" and my supervisor and peers can read it, as well as the draft, whenever. This keeps them clued in on where my head is at, what I'm working on, etc. Great for performance reviews mostly. Not as convenient as something like my Remarkable tablet.

Neat date format :)

I use these for work within SharePoint lists:

"2023 Q3 August"

"2023 Q3 08/02"

"2023 Q3 Monthly"

"2023 Q2"

"2023"

"Weekly"

"Monthly"

"Annually"

I had an issue scheduling things for 1-off occurrences, and reoccurring. A lot of what we do is scheduled around quarters or months. This was my "best of both" because I can store the date as text, sort alphabetically, and the dated-1-off things sort correctly. The recurring stuff like weekly/monthly/annually naturally group at the bottom or top depending on the A-Z direction. It generally keeps the format of year-quarter-month/day.

Thanks for the heads-up about the NeoSmart pens! I have a remarkable 2.