Thoughts While Sitting on a Cube
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Ricardo Wilkins
5 hours ago1 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
2 days ago1 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
4 days ago1 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
6 days ago1 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