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Okay, here we go on another journey.

The use of “Thinking”, “Context” and attempting to act strategically, innovatively and / or creatively have all been in my brain and mindset for many years. I’ve brought up any one of these terms many times in the past, sometimes collectively. Now, with the advent and continued rise of Prompting in the AI world, ‘prompting’ has been in the back of my brain for a couple of years, never thought about writing anything or talking about it a’tall… until this past week.  The result — a lot of material came out of my brain to write about “Context” and “Prompting”…

THINKING Think               "Think"            "THINK" (Just don’t end up overthinking. And yeah, it takes some serious self-discipline. It is a very, very fine line to slip over and start sliding down a teflon coated rabbit hole. Akin to folks going down the infamous chatbot rabbit hole sleigh ride…) Think strategically, think creatively, think innovatively... Yes, we are talking about thinking, thinking all the time. And note, this piece for sure, is not about you relying solely OR heavily on AI to come up with solutions. You, me, us – we all.....

Let me just say it:“BARI WEISS (and David Ellison and Tom Cibrowski and maybe Nick Bilton) HAS COMMITTED HOMICIDE IN MURDERING 60 MINUTES…!!!!”That is what we see in the public eye, these folks killed off (figuratively) 60 Minutes.And yes, while we are talking about Weiss, Ellison, Cibrowski, Bilton and Paramount – we are also talking about our time of Ethics, Integrity, Free Speech (1st…

If interested, this is about a 12 minute read. Use Opera or Duckduckgo browsers to block ads that may pop up. — Also, beware of a couple of moments below for humor – I didna’ want it ta be too boring ta read…. in times like these, humour helps all. NOTE:  FIRST — to be VERY clear, a lot of this paper ALSO refers to many, MANY others out there in the job market, suffering through the economy as well. ----- Undergoing pretty much the very same thing (in the same boat)…  SECOND — this article is not in reference to the human automatic filtering process most companies have in place today. That is primarily due to the resume overload/crush taking place everywhere. The article is in reference to the multiple recruiters who contact me & maybe the “Virtual recruiter” emails I receive off / on.. . Those recruiters  that are NOT looking at the whole picture of candidates — as to what candidates have done in the past and what they CAN do in the future, when considering that person’s past/current work, education efforts and their career trajectory... (more at the URL)

I did not believe it would be happening to me but, ‘it is’….. By the way – free speech being used here a couple of times, STOP NOW if you are sensitive.*************************************************** Okay, continue on. ******************************************************** Well, well, well…. New York Times ‘APPEARS‘ to now be BLOCKING my access when using Opera browser. This is when…

Today, I received an email referring to this Apr 14th blog/article by a writer at Aplin (a Canadian company with at least one American office), Deborah Sutherland. That title alone makes it a very interesting piece and is not more than a 2–3 minute read. The content is material I’ve been preaching about for quite a long time. In essence, and this is the MOST important note — the article is about companies looking beyond “JUST” the ‘specific’ experience they are looking for in new hires…

NOTE: free speech being used in this article, stop here if you do not want to see salty language. Yet AGAIN – the crappy, dumbass (alleged) moderators on pcmag rejected another comment of mine. It was to dovetail with the content of their Apr 21st article:—- “Unexpected Apple Account Change Emails. It’s a Phishing Scam“by James Peckham (Reporter).My comment, while not Apple related, was VERY…

Ooooh, what a “fun time” this is…. Such as finding errors in Databricks online learning/course lessons… more below.

First — the JOB MARKET curse for many of us. Because of not having 3–10 years of hands-on work experience in D.E. (Data Engineering), I’ve had to reset and resort to gaining more certifications, while attempting to keep previous certifications & project knowledge in my brain. — — — The current state of the economy is sidelining sooooo many of us as a result of the:

This paper is about you and your Hippocampus (one of the PRIMARY cornerstones in your brain) – in the workplace as well as in life.The paper cropped up from my thinking about folks using their Hippocampus more. Additionally, today, I happened to read an article on Medium, by: Tasmia Sharmin – Palantir CEO Says Only Two Types Will Survive AI (And Elite Degrees Aren’t One of Them)! The paper was…

Okay then. Just discovered via a community chat (one in the Chevy Chase, Md area) the following….********* begin copy ************* all you inveterate recyclers out there, beware. I dutifully dropped off an armful of coat hangers at Zips, only to witness an employee fill large bags of them and carry them to the dumpster out back. I questioned him and he replied “yeah I thought they would be…

Well. I did not believe it would be happening to me but, ‘it is’….. Because it really is, I’ve decided to keep a tracker of which article comments of mine are being declined. For the past couple of years, I have been making comments about the NYT as well as the Washington Post (which I will be doing a tracker as well of which comments are just being a) disappeared or b) they just decline). But, the Times denied me…

NOTE: PROFANITY ALERT – stop here and do not proceed if it offends your delicate, pious, conservative manner….. Wow!!!! Just because we want to block ads and tracking tools. For this story: Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photosThe Fucking Post is blocking my comments. As it is turning out, in trying other stories on the Post, using Duckduckgo – I have multiple…

It IS ONLY GOING to become worse now that we are STILL in this presidential mode of: “FEELING” it was time to attack Iran moment The Dept of Defense is stating they control the Air and the Water ways. That is not true, if they DID control the waterways, ships would be flowing continuously through the Hormuz Strait. The physical lives of many have already been felt, NEEDLESSLY by many people…

NOTE: First, this is not an Academic or Theoretical paper. Nor is this specifically about day-to-day efforts, per se, of a D.E. (Data Engineer) or ML (Machine Learning) Engineer. It is mainly about the path to Blasted Good Results & SUCCESS… using strategy and tactics.

For this little article, I also list 5 Caveats regarding these two (2) roles. BUT. The "Caveats" are ‘not’ restricted only to these roles. They can be applied to ANYTHING else - ANY role for ANY work out there

CAVEATS 1 – 5: 1) deep dive studying costs 2) deep dive study time 3) SIMPLE 4) Troubleshooting 5) Context

This paper is not about any kind of Diva effort such as someone uttering (or exhibiting) “I’m better than everyone else”.  Two of the primary areas are about Teamwork and Critical Thinking, in addition to the Caveats. --- Teamwork is the primary here, with a good, successful end result for all, along with

--- Critical Thinking: you ABSOLUTELY must do a great deal in this area, in any effort you do – D.E., ML Engineering, Cloud Architect/Engineer – AS MUCH as possible

Of course, there are more strategic experts out there who does strategic thinking for a living, I am not anywhere near that level. I am only bringing it to the forefront for D.E.’s and ML Engineers to really ponder using strategy & tactics more on a daily basis....

Yeah, it is yahoo. AGAIN!!! And for this one, I put off writing because of OTHER HIGHER personal priority tasks to do. But after doing a article posting on Yahoo mobile email Dynamic AI action icons, I decided to also do this article.

save time and turn on notifications for high-priority messages only.

I-DO-NOT-WANT-TO-SEE-THIS-CRAP…!!!!!! My on/off toggle switch for notifications / high-priority messages are already turned off. But yahoo is FORCING this on us, instead of respecting what WE WANT! HEY USER, USE OUR…

New twist on writing emails on smart phone yahoo application (not tablets, so far) — not in browser versions. Today, I was greeted with having a ‘NEW‘ and ‘UNWANTED‘ buddy on my smart phone yahoo email application. DYNAMIC AI action icons / WRITING ASSISTANT…!!!! I did not want this shit.(sorry for the profanity but this one really has me ROYALLY TICKED off.) Here is the catch, I have already gone through ALL the smart phone yahoo email application…

This article is one I had shared, in Feb 2019 — and believe I ‘should’ share it again, to refresh the viewing of this one.  Prelude The genesis of this paper was an email exchange between the head of an agency and myself. This Director, a 3-star Army guy, does not know me at all, as I am just one member of an agency of 10’s of thousands of folks working there globally… We had a few good back and forths in the email exchange on this, he found out that I was a former senior fed, Intelligence Officer (& cybersecurity SME).  What also prompted this…

Talk about having a weird dream…. This morning, I woke up dreaming about Data Engineering & ML Engineering… A dream that was, to me — VERY odd and DEFINITIVELY NOTHING esoteric about it at all…    The last times I recall waking up from dreams, regarding anything work related was when I was a fed Senior Intelligence Officer and many years prior to that, when I was an American Embassy Marine abroad. This is most of what I recall, more ‘might’ come back to me but I highly doubt it.  And no, “no idea” of who I was talking to or engaging with, just some kind of void… It is very much…