Technology Thursday | Hello Tech Pros

Jim Kohl has 33 years of experience delivering solutions across a wide range of industry domains (Banking, Insurance, Aircraft, Point of Sale, CAD/CAM). He is an avid promoter of technologies to help developers become better software engineers and collaborators. Recently Jim transitioned into DevOps as a great way to help do this.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/jim-kohl-productivity/

• The biggest impediment to scaling dev teams.
• The solutions you can't find on Google and StackOverflow.
• The missing element to your current document repository that makes it difficult to keep up to date.
• Why GitHub is a killer resource for Project Management.
• How to ensure no developer is left behind.
• Why developers are a lot like squirrels.
• The mindset you need to be successful in technology and business.

An All-American kid growing up, Tanner Gers is a man who's been forced to reinvent himself over and over again throughout his life, but the biggest reinvention was moving forward after waking up in the hospital totally blind. Since that day, Tanner has influenced the world as the host of the Creative Success Show, at CreativeSuccessShow.com, on his health and fitness blog, ABSolutelyLean.com, as a professional speaker, author, and a US Paralympian. Tanner finds the fuel to achieve more and do more through fulfilling his big mission in life; help people across the world achieve their potential in every aspect of life, regardless of circumstance.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/tanner-gers-motivation/

• How adversity and failure is going to affect you, whether you are ready for it or not. Find out how to handle it.
• Why other people project their "glass ceilings" onto you, and what that means to you.
• What to do about overly negative people in your life.
• How Tanner helped other blind people by standing up for his rights to his own education.
• What tech pros can do to improve the accessibility and usability of the software they build.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the final module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• What your career is defined by (hint: it's not your title).
• How to measure your personal performance.
• The exact moment career growth happens.
• Why unplugging from your job leads to a more successful career.
• The personal story of my struggle with work-life balance and how my career grew when I took more vacations.
• A secret about this entire 7-day course that has to do with a big boat and sand between my toes.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the sixth module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• How to apply the other 5 modules in this course to innovation.
• Which problem area is the best to be innovative and which to leave status quo.
• How to build an army of innovation soldiers to do thy bidding.
• Why that Potentially Awesome Solution you want to implement may be your downfall and what to implement instead.
• The personal story of the innovation revolution I helped start at a Fortune 100 that completely changed the way the business leaders saw my department.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the fifth module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• What causes us to look like and feel like a dirtbag.
• What the Elite Inner Circle is talking about and what they want to hear from you.
• How to win the respect of the high achievers and big shots one at a time.
• Behaviors to avoid at all cost.
• The story of my personal struggle with social anxiety and how I was able to overcome it at work by building critical relationships with supportive people who supported my career growth.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the fourth module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• The 7 technology problems that all stem from the root cause (and how to avoid them).
• The evaluation method to put every tech decision through.
• When to buy, when to build and when to forget the whole thing.
• A strategic way to roll out your tech solutions to right audience.
• The features you can safely ignore without imploding the project.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the third module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• The key to connecting to everyone at work.
• How to leverage your colleagues' goals to get what you want.
• The conversations that will get and hold your boss' attention (in an awesome way).
• The personal story of the time I talked 12 different developers to work on a bunch of new projects in their spare time without me having a Lead or Manager title.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the second module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• The biggest mistake people make when trying to increase their productivity.
• How to determine which balls you should be juggling, and which you're allowed to drop.
• How to say no to productivity killers without being a jerk.
• The personal story of how I worked 5x harder and was crushed to discover I had let everyone down in the process.

The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth.

Here's what you're going to get out of the course.

• The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids.
• Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina).
• Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track.
• A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time.
• Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council.
• A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power across the galaxy.
• The peace of mind to unplug from the job without the guilt of leaving your friends to fight the Death Star on their own, or the fear and anxiety of being pursued by bounty hunters.

The audio lessons are available to everyone, but the action items and homework are exclusive to the students who subscribe to the email version of the course. (Hint: If you don't take action and do the homework, you're probably not going to change anything.)

Click here to enroll in the full course. It's completely free.

Here's what you're going to learn in the first module of the Career Hyperdrive Course.

• The reason why we hate most Mondays.
• What it feels like to look forward to Mondays and how to achieve that feeling consistently.
• A small hack for your mindset that will lead to a massive difference in the amount of impact you will achieve at work.
• The story of my personal struggle with motivation after my career had plateaued and what happened after I reconnected with my true internal desires.

The roles of the NPCs that will help push and pull the player characters into emotional reactions.

This is the final episode of a multi-part podcast series on roleplaying games and Dungeons & Dragons.

Part 1: 10 Business Lessons Learned in Roleplaying Games

Part 2: Interview Players for Your D&D Campaign by Playing Board Games

Part 3: Picking a Genre and System for your RPG

Part 4: Developing an Epic D&D Campaign Story

Part 5: Cultural Inspirations For Your D&D Homebrew

More info on this campaign.