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LastPass and What To Do Next

LastPass and What To Do Next

Breaking the News For those of you who don’t follow this type of stuff….LastPass was breached. https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/First, why does that matter to anyone? It’s a good question if you don’t follow any security news, or maybe don’t know what LastPass is exactly. The short version is it’s largest company that allows you to store passwords for all your…

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Office 365 and Business Automation

Office 365 and Business Automation

If Only I could clone myself Every week at 3pm on Thursday afternoon I send an email to my staff….the only thing is that I don’t actually send it. My clone sends it. By “my clone”, I mean the low code automation tool in the back of the Office 365 ecosystem. A reduction of steps and code Years ago I reduced a user setup process down from 50 steps to 10 by created a batch file. Really, it was…

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Starting Up

Bullet Journal ListCoffeeCalendar How do you plan what fills your time?

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Kiddo pile (at Parrott Avenue Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8sRTWaj0i2b7Bm-IHvwRQcXPSHC4IG9ZDT0ms0/?igshid=1ju6pcnxpbgcf

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#wmconf (at Antioch Community Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8STJYQDaepD_YsM5l5mv7YyPczsyW4FZpnyUQ0/?igshid=cpkn1h1x2p2x

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#tripping (at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8EyzLoDiQErAgVfKlcS0WydiYDn8bgi9fQTGw0/?igshid=1qinsjq7xdcnx

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Worship for the entire service this morning. Love being a part of this @antiochwaco (at Antioch Community Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/B68XXn5Dd8gbuY2iu3-uRRetElTPMK4pgMmDf00/?igshid=967gh516r1z0

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Taking some time by the fire to reflect tonight. Not gonna lie, this week has been a bit stressful. This upcoming Monday is my last day of work for the year and that means there’s a lot to get done before calling it quits for the remainder of this decade. The week culminated with a major overhaul of a system last night that left me and one of my engineers up till 3am. Before I forget...thank you @micah_hambrick71 for hanging in there and really being the one to push the project through the finish line. We’ll be going into the new year better positioned to scale faster and serve better because of your efforts. Honestly, my life is way better than I deserve. I get to do stuff that I’m really good at and I have talents I get to use. I have a family full of rowdy kids and and gracious gorgeous wife. Thank you @jessbjones for all the ways you’ve sacrificed this year so I can do what I get to do. Are there stressors? Sure, that’s life...and in the end I’m privileged to be able to sit down at the end of a year and see how I’ve been gifted some great opportunities to contribute to others, build something bigger through the work of my hands, work within an organization that believes in culture development enough to cultivate something greater than any one person, and serve a bunch of people by serving a bunch of other organizations. The impact of that is difficult to count due to the ripple effect. Ok. More great fullness later as I reflect on the year. For now, back to the fire. (at Parrott Avenue Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6XDT4fDpP5EWdFnviPMDZxnSGuvfJsFHGYh7c0/?igshid=109kwu2lo22a0

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Health and Boundaries - 2

Health and Boundaries – 2

Last time I posted I wrote about how I’ve finally been in a recovery state from depression. It took me about 10 months to gain all of my energy back and I’m still learning lessons from the time I was experience a depressed state.

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We now have a 10 year old. Happy birthday BeeBee (at Parrott Avenue Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5eFCIbDpthYDwQRmv8PaaL2JAkk7487OX1tcA0/?igshid=eoy2ir2eht21

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Health and Boundaries

Recovery is tough.

I’m just now recovering from a year’s worth of depression. No, I haven’t been in depression recently. I finally came up for breath almost 10 months ago, but I’m just now at a place I’d describe as recovered. I’ll go into more detail in the next several weeks. about it. Describing the why and the what of my experience and the how of recovery.

A Framework for understanding

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (at Parrott Street Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2_1zeiDfG3nDfwv5Rxp8pq3YuYlDLeyt-xhus0/?igshid=3pufuyd73mlh

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Caulder’s face! I think he might be tired. Lol #gobears (at McLane Stadium at Baylor University) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2-HiaLDcGSb0o42ef4yQY9nvmqpFyTk2UYSds0/?igshid=2qvtdggo3eaz

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Being Present and Scheduling Resets are a good thing Years ago, I was going through a reset on my life. I needed it.

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Technology keeps growing and it gives me hope

Technology keeps growing and it gives me hope

A while back I was looking into AI a little more heavily after finding some interesting use cases. Mainly two with Crisis Text Line and Bark. At some point I ran across Hannah Fry and her book “Hello World”. One of her arguments in this book speaks to algorithms and is a good understanding of ethics surrounding the creation of technologies.

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‘Stros at bat (at Minute Maid Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kXR9JDBfWtrpuD7jmFR3fTNFpsg8yXX-jXcQ0/?igshid=yqpp86nsib3v

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Kevin Mitnick!!!! #dattocon19 #managedservices https://www.instagram.com/p/By3ztZTDFMIq44k9ZXGAmrz0BZBHxa5byZdyZM0/?igshid=1ftwwpj781knr