We explore how to craft your own executive presence in the age of remote work and video calls. How you present yourself influences how you are perceived. Being intentional allows you to control your own narrative. 

Book: https://www.amazon.com/People-Management-Ground-Up-Aspiring/dp/B0DBGQ57XT

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-dempsey/

Website: https://peterdempseywrites.com/

Newsletter: https://peterdempseywrites.com/newsletter/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petedempsey.bsky.social

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@TalkToMePeteyD

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-to-me-petey-d/id1745885025

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NrlsWzansuCfuApMCZzj0

·         Managing stress to prevent burnout

·         Boundaries and breaks

·         Early to bed, early to rise

·         Pressure release

·         Start each interaction fresh

·         Give stress time to fade

·         End of day reflection

·         Sleep on it before taking action

·         Breathe

·         Schedule around stressors

·         Gratitude

·         Sustainable high-performance

Everyone can build an identity as a reader. We’ll cover a few simple techniques you can apply to your own reading practice.

Beginner: Short interval reading, once or twice a day

Intermediate: Always have a book with you. Read multiple books concurrently.

Advanced: Read for longer stretches on a flight or at the pool on vacation. 

Behavioral interviews test your ability to articulate our cultural values and how you live them in the real world. I offer up some advice from my years of experience interviewing for a diverse set of roles. The behavioral interview is important for any role, but it is especially important for people manager and leadership roles.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/People-Management-Ground-Up-Aspiring/dp/B0DBGQ57XT

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-dempsey/

Website: https://peterdempseywrites.com/

Newsletter: https://peterdempseywrites.com/newsletter/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petedempsey.bsky.social

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@TalkToMePeteyD

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-to-me-petey-d/id1745885025

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NrlsWzansuCfuApMCZzj0

When our consumer devices become nodes in a mass surveillance network, we have the opportunity to influence privacy rights with how we spend our consumer dollars. In this episode I talk about my personal choice to remove my Ring doorbell camera and replace it with a more privacy preserving option.

Your Data Will Be Use Against You

https://nyupress.org/9781479838288/your-data-will-be-used-against-you/ 

Enable Ring Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/amazon-rings-end-end-encryption-what-it-means?language=sh 

My study guide to prepare business leaders and managers to pass the Microsoft AB-731 Certification. While parts of the test are Microsoft specific, this knowledge applies across all AI solution providers.

AI will evolve and replace human skills

Progress is inevitable. AI will keep getting “better”

AI requires an entirely new and different skill set

AI is a general purpose technology

The U.S. Government is moving from deregulation tech to actively providing national sponsorship to support AI companies. This investment is propping up GDP in the short term and has started a new tech cold war with China.

Data and Society Paper - https://datasociety.net/library/the-big-ai-state/ 

This Machine Kills Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/443-behold-the-big-beautiful-ai-state-ft-brian-chen/id1526914048?i=1000747951140 

I am a passionate technologist as well as a parent. Our kids are growing up in a world ubiquitous with technology. Some of it good, some of it distracting, and some that is outright parasitic. Trying to control the technologies our kids get exposed to is a daunting task. I’m sharing some of my successes with a few failures along the way. You won’t be perfect, but you are not powerless.

Principles for Parenting and Tech

·         Modeling – Use tech how you want your kids to use it. Practice what you preach.

·         Friction – Make it harder to do things that you don’t want you kids to do.

·         Limits – You set them and enforce them. Kids will test them

·         Precedents – Once you make a choice, it is easier to stay consistent with that choice

·         Single purpose tech over multi-purpose tech

·         Pay over “free”

·         Know your kids and what is right for your situation

Skilling – training a worker to do a specific task

Skilling is work-oriented, discrete, and measurable.

Skilling is necessary but not sufficient. Skilling isn’t as durable as general-purpose learning: critical-thinking, leadership, and empathy.

A kind learning environment builds skill by practicing the activity alone.

A wicked learning environment has unclear or incomplete rules, there may or may not be patterns, feedback is delayed, inaccurate, or both.

If your learning journey is only skilling-based, you are missing the breadth that will apply across many work domains and enrich your humanity.