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You hear the telltale sound of a Slack notification, and your eyes seem to take on a life of their own; drawn to the app to see the message that has been sent. It might not even be pertinent to your job or processes, but we love to hear that
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Whether it’s note-taking or tracking my finances or making a whole bunch of changes all at once, spreadsheets are a secret superpower. If you buy / have a subscription for Microsoft Office, then you should have access to Excel, but if you don’t or are looking for a free
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Don’t you have to be some super smart programmer to automate stuff? BTW: Don’t look up the definition of “automation” on Google, because it uses “automated” in its definition! Rant over about definitions that use their own word to explain themselves… Let’s look at what the word
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Have you ever read another person’s resume? I’m not talking about the “example” resumes from Googling, “Good resume examples,” I’m talking about a real person’s resume. It’s surprising how dull and not useful the majority are. If you’re trying to hire someone, you want
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Some tasks have to be done on a weekly or monthly basis, and you may be forced to dedicate a certain amount of time to complete it, no matter what. Take laundry, for example. No matter what you do, it takes the washing machine an hour to run. Unless you’
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My first full-time employment was in a job from which I wasn’t expecting to learn much of anything. I had graduated in Graphic Design, but no one seemed interested in that skillset when they learned I was decent at HTML/CSS. So I found myself in a cubicle doing
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Before my MS attack, I was a huge high-achiever. Everything I did (in my career) was focused on higher quantity and higher quality outputs. As soon as that norm was taken away, due to MS, I started to shift my approach to goals to be less about impressive numbers. I
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I spent months trying to automate my job, and I got quite a bit of it offloaded to my computer. When the day started, the programs I needed came up without needing to be manually launched. I had shortcuts in my browser that would switch between subdomains on the site
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There is a trick I figured out when I was checking my work to make sure it never had mistakes. I realized that I seemed to find more bugs, more grammar and spelling errors when I started at the very bottom of my page and worked upwards. I actually discovered
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What is technology? From Google: The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Source; Accessed 2/5/2021 The other array of definitions include this main concept: knowledge + application. So while I often think of technology as some kind of electronic device or software, in reality, technology
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What is the most boring or tedious part of your job? Tedium is the computer’s favorite thing to take care of for you. It also happens to be my favorite thing to delegate to the computer. Some things are easy to figure out how to pass off to your