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May 12, 2020

Tales from Remote Work: When is Good Enough… Not?

Last month, my grandfather turned 103 years old. We celebrated his birthday as many friends and family are doing — from a distance via video conference. He was suitably impressed (and slightly baffled) by the fact that we were all present on screen from different locations around the country —…

Remote Work

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Tales from Remote Work: When is Good Enough… Not?
Tales from Remote Work: When is Good Enough… Not?
Remote Work

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Mar 18, 2020

Tales from Remote Work: Compiling with My Dog

Early in my career as an engineering manager, my boss gave me some advice. He said that developers sometimes seem idle, just staring at the wall. In many cases, they were likely waiting for their code to compile and wouldn’t be able to do anything else. But, developers also need…

Remote Work

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Tales from Remote Work: Compiling with My Dog
Tales from Remote Work: Compiling with My Dog
Remote Work

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Aug 26, 2019

Why You Need AI Now (in a nutshell)

The Criticality of Adopting AI If you are reading this post, you may be looking for answers about why adopting AI is so hard or how to do it. Many people have written about these topics. Here are two articles that have been published recently — why it’s hard (Forbes) and how to do it…

Machine Learning

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Why You Need AI Now (in a nutshell)
Why You Need AI Now (in a nutshell)
Machine Learning

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Jun 12, 2019

More Daves than women

Recently, I was talking with one of my developers and we came around to the subject of gender equity. He said that when he first started working in a tech company a few years ago, they joked that there were “more Daves than women” in the company — literally twice…

Gender Equality

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More Daves than women
More Daves than women
Gender Equality

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May 28, 2019

Strong Opinions

This post is Inspired by a recent blog post on GlowForge, “Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech” When I first started working in a tech company, one of the things I most liked about being there was the smart, strongly opinionated people who always had…

Startup

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Strong Opinions
Strong Opinions
Startup

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May 24, 2019

The evolution of education

(Originally published on rifflearning.com, 4/30/18) Vera John-Steiner, emeritus linguistics professor, passed away earlier this month. Her obit caught my eye in a scan of the deeper recesses of my news feed, and as I read the notice, I knew why. She was a key editor and collaborator on Mind in…

Education

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The evolution of education
The evolution of education
Education

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May 24, 2019

Women at work

(Originally published on rifflearning.com, 3/26/18) This Women’s History Month, I’ve learned a lot about the role of women in the workforce. Women were “welcomed” into the workforce during WWII as the male labor supply steeply declined and the war effort expanded and continued. …

Gender Equality

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Women at work
Women at work
Gender Equality

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May 24, 2019

To gamify or not to gamify, that is the question

(Originally published on rifflearning.com, 1/1/18) When my kids were in elementary school, I took an online course on Gamification — the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. It was something we were thinking about implementing in one of our products, and I wanted to learn more…

Gamification

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To gamify or not to gamify, that is the question
To gamify or not to gamify, that is the question
Gamification

3 min read

Beth Porter

Beth Porter

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CEO & Cofounder of Riff Analytics

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