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mlevison

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Certified Scrum Trainer | I help organizations and teams become more effective. I use #Scrum, #Kanban #Agile #BehaviouralPsychology. | I’ve helped over 8000 people build better teams

I dabble with #PKM aka Personal Knowledgement Management so the ideas that fall out of my head get written down somewhere #Obsidian. #fedi22

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MichaelPorter, to Ottawa
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Anyone in #Ottawa have 10 ping pong (sorry, ahem, table tennis) balls they could lend me for a few days?
I promise I won't get beer on them, trying out an idea for an educational video.

mlevison,
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@MichaelPorter plastic golf balls? Almost ping pong balls but not quite?

mlevison,
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@MichaelPorter Email me mark at agilepainrelief dot com if this would help.

thirstybear, to random
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Anyone using the Apple MacBook Air M3 with Jetbrains tools? Good enough, or underpowered for that sort of thing?

mlevison,
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@tastapod @thirstybear

With MBA my biggest question would be about RAM. How much? What are you running in local containers? Running a server in VMWare + JetBrains might tax your RAM.

Attempting to local LLM work will tax your RAM

Otherwise likely good.

molly0xfff, to random

Former CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison.

mlevison,
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@molly0xfff Not enough by a wide margin.

grimalkina, to random
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Reading a 2016 paper on inquiry-based learning where "cognitive load" is once again used as a reason to stop any learner from doing anything FUN and HARD and EXPLORATORY my God

Being alive increases your cognitive load. We are not in some kind of robotic fry-out state every time we have to consume novel information. Working in a repetitive assembly line is low cognitive load and also destroys people

This one little tiny concept taken out of context is used for so many bad arguments.

mlevison,
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@sjthomas @rebeccawb @grimalkina

Difficult to tell from a toot. If Yerkes Dodson being referenced as a real thing? Or funny because it doesn’t replicate outside the original tortured mice experiment?

mlevison,
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@sjthomas @rebeccawb @grimalkina

I asked because I see studies that don’t replicate references in a professional context. My hope is to reduce how often the myths persist.

mlevison,
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@rebeccawb @sjthomas @grimalkina

FWIW I think Cat is one of the best at doing the bridging work out there.

My triggers are phrases like: Ego Depletion; Yerkes Dodson; Dunbars number; MBTI; DISC; ...

mlevison, to random
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Just 4% of CEOs are prioritizing bringing workers back into the office full time | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/business/return-to-office-2024-ceo/index.html

mlevison, to random
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The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs. Abstract Language - By Jonah Berger - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/the-magic-of-knowing-when-to-use-concrete-vs-abstract-language/?utm_source=pocket_reader

jasongorman, to random
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Just had a LinkedIn invitation from a "Staff Thermal Engineer" at Tesla.

Imagine putting that on your CV.

mlevison,
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@jasongorman Hot stuff

mlevison, to random
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@emilybache Having fun with the racing car katas, as an adult.

I'm helping my 17yr old daughter learn Java. We're learning TDD, but racing car katas are too far for now.

She understands primitives and limited OO. Do you have any exercises for us to build on from there?

mlevison, to random
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@emilybache Just started playing with the racing car katas for the first time.

I looked at the leaderboard test code and can tell it's age. Lewis Hamilton? 2017-2020 are calling.

jamesshore, to random
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New blog: "A Software Engineering Career Ladder."

"What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. It tends to snap back. True change involves changing hundreds of little day-to-day decisions. That’s hard, even when people want to make those changes, and full buy-in is hard to come by... This is where the new career ladder comes in."

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2024/a-software-engineering-career-ladder

mlevison,
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@jamesshore @RonJeffries

Consider an inversion mention them early and then ask what you could remove.

or

Mention early and then mention "Try it their way" ties back to....

ai6yr, to random

T-shirt seen today at our radio club.

mlevison,
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@ai6yr This is me.

qcoding, to random
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The first book to leap off my shelf and demand to be included in my @swiftcraft talk caught me by surprise… It was published in 1996!

mlevison,
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@qcoding wow I had that book. To bad, we never took action on it.
@swiftcraft

mlevison,
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@qcoding what makes it interesting today?

mlevison,
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@qcoding I think I just hide my grey hair.

We're of a similar age and background. I think the difference between us - you still do a lot of technical work and I only play at it.

mlevison, to random
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#Influence Mapping - set of ideas to help you determine how to influence people, outside your normal sphere of influence https://charleslambdin.com/2021/12/14/influence-mapping-part-1/

mlevison, to random
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Heard news about my fellow Certified Scrum Trainer Bob Sarni. He passed away on Tuesday morning.

More details via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marklevison_yesterday-i-received-some-hard-news-one-activity-7189337339473616897-t6rX?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios.

(I don’t have the energy to rewrite here)

mlevison, to random
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15 yrs ago I read one book on

Since then it more doubled in size.

Then it had children.

BTW The Catalyst - Jonah Berger is so good that I have 20+ postit notes over two chapters.

(Can't alt tags to work. Books are Influence: The Psychology or Persuasion - Robert Cialdini - 2 editions and How Minds Change David McRaney)

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mlevison,
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@flowchainsenseisocial

Good you’ve given me reason to look forward to the McRaney book.

I would line up to read a book on collective mind changing

mlevison, to random
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#Influence #Distance When we give people data, we expect the data will overcome preconceived notions and change minds. Sometimes data works at changing minds. 10 yrs ago the vaccine autism link was throughly debunked. (Orig paper was fraud). Yet showing ppl the truth often backfired. Some went from slightly anti-vaccine to throughly.

If the distance between their current thinking and the new belief is too far, it is easier to reject.
https://buff.ly/3w3GRWX

Source: The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

mlevison, to random
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hashtag#Tools for job seekers - looking for feedback and additional ideas/tools.

https://buff.ly/3JqYljg

As I mentioned last week, I have seen hundreds of people looking for work through LinkedIn. The post is intended to 1) help people find work that is well suited for them 2) become a place where I can add additional sources for people to read.

What non-commercial sources would you add?

mlevison,
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@johannarothman I will add links when I next update. Thanks

mlevison,
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@albertocblanco nice I well add it as link tomorrow

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