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Hallway Track 012 The Thing About COBOL with Marianne Belloti, Mar Hicks, and Clive Thompson Monday 2 June 2025, 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern 25 spaces only. by very little gravitas

Register for Hallway Track 12 The Thing About COBOL today at 1pm ET!

Chat with Marianne Belloti, @histoftech.bsky.social, and @clivethompson.bsky.social in depth about the programming language people love to hate.

Free, Monday 2 June.

www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

Did you happen to look up the IT experience of the person they replaced?

I had to chat support and then the options to remove appeared in the admin panel!

The new “requests” feature on LinkedIn (“consulting requests” and “speaking requests”) is literally just spam, yes? Has anyone had a non-spam experience?

“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”

—Elie Wiesel

There are 22 books! I'm on book 2.

Reading Redwall as an adult is a delightful, highly recommended escape.

5 years ago, if you'd ask me: amy, should i let my kid's heart get broken by sea monkeys?

i would've said absolutely not!

now… yes. bring it on. the youth need to learn that people lie, lie blatantly, and with great vividness, and it's sad but at least it's not IMPORTANT.

I honestly cannot think of a place I would rather work (besides my own company).

Did you ask a human chat agent? They have to unlock those settings.

Google Workspace menu showing you can turn off Gemini in Drive and Docs, Gmail, Google Chat, and/or Google Meet

You can remove Gemini from Gmail, Google Docs and the like (at least in a paid account) by chatting support and requesting Admin > Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace have the options to turn it off, turned on. Then you will have individual toggles:

Management By Driving Around In 2019, California Governor Newsom hired veteran technology executive Steve Gordon to transform the troubled DMV: to increase online services, improve service at field offices, and bolster employee m...

Our new Harvard Business Review piece digs into big improvements in customer service at the California DMV

New boss Steve Gordon visited all 180 field offices (50,000 miles on his car!), which "fueled" employee trust, and lessons on problems and solutions #frictionproject

hbr.org/2024/11/mana...

Executive overreach for student loan forgiveness causes the left to lose moral authority over future executive overreach by other administrations.

I see politicians of all stripes only willing to call foul when the outcome is something they don't like. That's dangerous.

Poster 1: You treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO. Poster 2: C’mon dude I’m not gonna guillotine the janitor Poster 3: reblog if you respect a janitor way more than a CEO

If you don’t make a point to learn your janitor’s name, you are a bad person. You should, in fact, be making sure some donuts are saved for the janitorial staff. If there are not enough donuts, buy extra.

Heard. It was something I viewed (and still view) as part of my job as a leader but man it can be exhausting.

I hear you on the bureaucracy as video game 😂

The video camera drones covering this NFL game really need little windshield wipers.