Tag Archives: work

A Culture That Allows Mistakes

Posted on July 20, 2022 by way0utwest

Building a culture that promotes teamwork, efficiency, retention, and other positive attributes can be challenging. While many organizations want accountability and responsibility, it is easy for managers to tip over into a blame-and-chastise pattern. When someone makes a mistake and … Continue reading →

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Which Work Is Suited for In-Person?

Posted on July 15, 2022 by way0utwest

In this article on flexible working plans, number four makes a good point. What work is suited for live, in-person interaction? Which aspects of your job benefit from seeing others face-to-face? Today I’m asking data professionals to think about it. … Continue reading →

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The Home Setup

Posted on July 9, 2022 by way0utwest

For many years, a home setup has been something us geeky people built to experiment, have fun, maybe play games, maybe for some career learning away from work. I’ve written about various workstations, as has Glenn Berry. Then the pandemic … Continue reading →

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Be Smart

Posted on July 6, 2022 by way0utwest

An engineer at Google recently claimed that one of the AI chatbots might have become sentient. Great headlines, and whether true or not, this might bring some notoriety to the engineer.. It certainly did, and it also resulted in the … Continue reading →

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