Thoughts While Sitting on a Cube
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Ricardo Wilkins
Jan 111 min read
LinkedIn Thoughts
I've been a premium LinkedIn member since 2017. A lot has changed on the platform since that time. They say you should start with a complement before you start talking about your gripes.... 🫤 I like that for the most part LI has stayed professional. I've stopped using other similar platforms because they've just become too sloppy & often negative. Tho, it could be that I've chosen to follow only well-behaved feeds on LI. What I'm not a fan of on LI, tho, is how the algorithm
Ricardo Wilkins
Jan 101 min read
Cooking with Copilot
I don't know how to use my wife's air fryer. But I wanted some fish fillets. So, I put the bag of frozen fillets in front of the air fryer and took a picture. I gave the picture to Copilot. All I said was, "tell me how to cook this fish with this machine. Assume no prior cooking experience". It proceeded to give me step-by-step instructions. It knew the model of the air fryer, so it let me know exactly which buttons to press. It knew at what temperature that particular brand
Ricardo Wilkins
Jan 81 min read
OneNote Thoughts
I'm a beast in OneNote. I'm not exaggerating when I say that probably 20 years of my professional and personal notes are stored there, with a large amount of those pages being handwritten. Yes, I've been using digital pens & tablets since before they were kool - back when they were heavy and nowhere near being mobile friendly. These days, thankfully the Surface Pro and Surface Pen make my journaling and diagramming in OneNote a much more satisfying experience. They allow me t
Ricardo Wilkins
Jan 61 min read
Excel Thoughts
I become a spreadsheet nerd around this time of the year. This is when I take my full previous-year statements from my different accounts and do analysis on the family spending. I. Geek. Out. Pivot tables. Categories. Charts. A nice cup of coffee. [insert Homer Simpson drool image] 🤣 This year, tho, I'm gonna see just how well AI allows me to ask questions of the raw data versus doing my own manipulations. Instead of a multi-level pivot table to figure out how much Dining O
Ricardo Wilkins
Jan 41 min read