by Jule Kucera | Oct 24, 2021 | Blog
My second-to-last position at my last employer was a position I was moved into when the one I held was eliminated. Six months later, I was moved into another role. I’d felt competent in my original job, the one the company hired me for. I did good work, and it made a...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 23, 2021 | Podcasts
When I started podcasting, I committed to doing it for a year and then deciding if I wanted to continue or not. The year is up. I’ve made my decision. I’m going to pivot. The Hard Times & Hope podcast will go away. I’ll keep podcasting, but I’m changing it up. I’m...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 17, 2021 | Blog
Most of the time, we do our jobs and learn as we go. It’s hard to make scientific experiments about what we can do differently to be more effective. We can change how we interact with others, but situations change, so it’s hard to draw clear cause-and-effect...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 10, 2021 | Blog
The security settings on my devices are set to keep much about me private. Because of this, I receive ads that wouldn’t generally be targeted to my demographic: men’s swim trunks, teaching materials for elementary school children, hunting rifles. One day, a...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 3, 2021 | Blog
When I used to fly to Cincinnati every other Sunday, I would get in at about 6PM. In the Fall, I would often see people in Cincinnati Bengals gear, and I could tell just by looking whether the team had won or lost. “Bengals lose today?” I would say to the cab driver,...
