Year: 2022
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Gaming Addiction Addresses Deep Psychological Needs
In addition, the kind of play that people are addicted to addresses a deep psychological need. Many of those who are addicted to computer gaming are those who don’t feel comfortable meeting life’s varied and ambiguous…
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Hiring Based on Skills & the Capacity to Learn
“Experience has almost no predictive value in the vast majority of work roles,”said Adam Grant, noted Wharton professor, author, and host of the conference. “Instead of showing me your resume, show me the work you’ve…
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Putting Into Action What You Believe
These days employers who are considering you for a role want to know that a web search for your name will give them a snapshot of: – what you believe in, and – what you’ve…
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A Dialogue of Meaningful Human Relationships
Creating strong connections with potential, current and past talent has become even more important in a job seeker’s market, particularly as platforms like The Muse have enabled the rise of the passive candidate. “Employers have to organize…
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Rediscovering the Aspirational Self
As workplaces focus on employee engagement — and increasingly, becoming a workplace that welcomes the humanity of its workers —employers want to see a snapshot of an actual human person. “Resumes are a point in time and not reflective…
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The Value of Personality
Previous generations valued years of experience and traditional resumes offer this chronological snapshot. But times have changed. Now candidates are judged on their ability to perform and collaborate, something resumes don’t highlight. As a hiring manager, stretch…
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Making WordPress Layouts Like Twitter
At the same time, it would be nice for WordPress to have a similar layout structure as Twitter. In effect, I like the primary feeling of my list view to be one of a collection…
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Making WordPress Writing Like Twitter
When I’m writing on WordPress, it feels like there’s this expectation to expand things to make it long form. On Twitter, since it’s short form, there’s no expectation. You just write. It would be nice…
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My Metaphoric Use of Gaming Language
BTW one of the main things that will quickly become evident upon my website here, as it develops, is my metaphoric use of language. For someone who comes from a background in building online communities…
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A Fresh Perspective
In starting this new website, I’d like the flow of this thought stream (aka blog, journal, etc) to intentionally and directly solidify the structure of my Self and my work, similar to how sediment from…
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