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On the Tyranny of Test Scores, Kind Of
tl;dr - Stop with the worksheets, standardized tests, and asking tiny children to pretend to be much older. These things aren’t creating a better workforce and are probably creating a worse one.
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On Insincerity
The Childcare Conundrum: A Philosophical Exploration of Shortages and Struggles
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On Fear and Change
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to write about my current professional status. I feel really good about where I am and what I’m doing now, but it is definitely not what I was doing a month ago. My identity has always been so wrapped up in the work that I do that I don’t know how to thing of myself these days. It’s scary, but it’s also exciting. So, without further ado…
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On Greener Grass
I started writing this post on the evening of my last day working for Cerner - for almost 9 years. I loved the work I was doing at Cerner and am incredibly grateful for the opportunities I was given to grow while I was there, but it was time for a change. I’ve often heard the advice, “Go to something you want, don’t run away from what you have. It took more than a year for me to find the right thing, and in the end, the right thing found me instead. Then it took me nine months to finish the blog post.
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On Using Chaos
There are innumerable frameworks that represent change, learning, and improvement as straight-forward, linear processes. If we just follow these steps, we will remove all of the complexity and solve all of our most difficult problems.
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On Ambient Conversations
I am certain someone smarter and more philosophical than I has an official term for the concept of ambient conversations. I’ve not yet been able to find it and a Google search of the term only turns up coffee house sound generators. There are more lofty versions of this concept, such as Carl Jung’s collective consciousness. I would not be so delusional as to believe that I as an individual could influence basically held beliefs at that kind of scale. For now, I’m sticking with ambient conversations.
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On Loving Work
I read an interesting piece recently on How to Love Your Job [1]. My favorite quote from the article was “…if we all want interesting and fulfilling careers that pay well, provide prestigious job titles, and lots of freedom and flexibility to do interesting work, unleash our curiosity, and work with smart, friendly, and interesting colleagues, in cultures that are fully apolitical and aligned with our values, then quite a few of us will end up disappointed. Welcome to the real world. This isn’t a cynical take on the world of jobs, but an attempt to describe reality.” I can’t agree more and this concept led to me ponder those things that I like about my job, the people I like in my job, and how well my job is aligned with my values.
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