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Three Things I Learned at the Urinal
When you are as curious as I am, there are learning opportunities everywhere—even in the bathroom. Lately, when I go to a public restroom, I am reminded of three important leadership lessons. I don’t know where your mind is going but stay with me here. Public men’s restrooms typically have urinals, which are basically […]
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8 Video Conference Games to Liven Up Your Online Group Meeting
As my youth groups at Life Connection Church start meeting again–online, of course–we have to start coming up with games that we can play via video conferencing.* I haven’t found a good list. So, I had to put one together and make some up myself. It’s a pretty good list of games–if I do say […]
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Video Conferencing Options: My Quick Take
For the uninitiated, Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, WebEx, GoToMeeting, FaceTime, and a myriad of others are online video conferencing systems. Choosing which to use can be quite overwhelming. For me, the biggest factor is how easy it is for other people to connect. That comes down to whether they need an account and whether they […]
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Hi! Hey! Hello, dear. (Punctuation and Salutations)
Dear Reader, Writing emails (Sadly, I never send letters anymore) always gives me more than a brief moment of frustration and anxiety because I often don’t know how to open then. Should they be formal or informal, personal or professional, properly punctuated or commonly punctuated? Similarly, I get a little anxious when I come to […]
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Deep Learning: Installing Keras
In my previous post, I mentioned building a neural network using Keras that was able to classify thousands of Reuters documents in under 10 minutes. Sadly, installing Keras took more effort than I wanted–longer than actually building and training the network. So, I worked out the kinks and scripted the process to go from a bare box […]
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My Dive into Deep Learning
I spent last week in a Deep Learning workshop and I came away both encouraged and disheartened at the same time. (For the uninitiated, Deep Learning has no formal definition; however, I would loosely define it as a new name given to the class of machine learning techniques that combine many nonlinear functions in order to approximately model abstractions of […]
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Microsoft Outlook Tips
Although I’m a Mac guy, as promised in my previous post, here are four email handling features in Microsoft Outlook that I love. Drag to Create Calendar Appointments. Has someone requested a meeting in an email and not as a calendar appointment? The nerve! If you drag your email to the calendar (to a specific date or to […]
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Zero Inbox–Email Management
In this post, I’ll tell you how to achieve the zero inbox. The other day, I heard someone say that an empty inbox is an unreasonable goal. I whole-heartedly disagree! Not only is it a reasonable goal but given the accumulated hours of your life wasted scanning your inbox for a particular message or figuring […]
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iPhone Reminders App
Despite my protests to the contrary, I do not have a great memory for one-time tasks. I like to think that I have so many grand thoughts going through my head that I simply cannot be bothered by such narrowly defined things. Fortunately, the iPhone was made with geniuses such as myself in mind. Enter […]
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iFamily: Shared Calendars
Between us and our children, we have to keep track of rehearsals for dance, strings, band, and Praise Team and performances for all the above. Add to that doctor appointments, meetings, volunteering, and social events. Despite our ferocious defense of our family calendar, we get busy. Here comes the calendar app to the rescue. One […]
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