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      <title><![CDATA[More Maintenance, Less Repair]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Most people would define “maintenance” as “fixing stuff that’s broken”.  If you told them that that’s “repair” and that maintenance is different, they’d reply that you should get your head out of the dictionary and stop being so pedantic.  After all, the difference is semantic at best and nobody cares!  My argument is that you should care, and that the difference will save your household, your business, and your society.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-04-14-more-maintenance-less-repair</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Glass Lake - A Short Story]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This week is a short story about an off-grid homesteader in the near future.  The various technical and other odd bits I used are all either real things or will be very soon.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-04-07-glass-lake-a-short-story</link>
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      <itunes:duration>10:04</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[RoboBoss Has Approved Your Timesheet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is upon us and not showing any signs of slowing.  The most common concern from those in the workforce is being replaced by one of these “thinking machines”.  But what if AI wasn’t coming for your job?  What if it was coming for your boss’s job instead?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-03-31-roboboss-has-approved-your-timesheet</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What is Money Series - Part 4 - What Are Crypto & CBDCs?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to part 4, the final entry in the What is Money series.  We’re capping it off with “crypto” and CBDCs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-03-24-what-is-money-series-part-4-what-are-crypto-and-cbdcs</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Which Disney Princess Are You (in the Workplace)?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Millennials remember the era of Buzzfeed quizzes with fondness, and some may even describe it as identity or culture shaping.  People have always loved these miniature personality tests, and while Buzzfeed may no longer be in its heyday, the popularity of these dinner-table icebreakers has transcended generational gaps.  To the analytically-brained among us this sounds like a datapoint that could be used in the workplace.  Or is it?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-03-17-which-disney-princess-are-you-in-the-workplace</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What is Money Series - Part 3 - What is Bitcoin?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to part 3 of the “What is Money?” series!  So far we’ve covered the base concepts of money and money as a system in part 1, and the Canadian Dollar in part 2.  Today we’re going to talk about a relatively new system of money, Bitcoin!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-03-10-what-is-money-series-part-3-what-is-bitcoin</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fear & Respect in the Workplace]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you haven’t had the experience of waking up in the morning and fearing going to work, you’ve probably heard at least one story of someone who has.  Someone who was afraid of their boss, a coworker, an impending audit, or layoffs.  These stories are centered around fear, but what about fear’s older, more mature cousin, respect?  How are they related, and what are their roles in the workplace?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-03-03-fear-and-respect-in-the-workplace</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What is Money Series - Part 2 - What is the Canadian Dollar?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In part 1 of this series ([Part 1 - What is Money? ]( https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-01-20-what-is-money-series-part-1-what-is-money)) we overviewed the history of money and as a global concept.  Now that we have a base understanding of what money is we can get into detail about the Canadian Dollar.  Why the Canadian Dollar specifically?  One of the inspirations for this series was realizing how much the pervasiveness of American media has affected the average Canadian’s understanding of how our money works.  How many of you can quote what is printed on US bills?  Do you know what is printed on Canadian bills?  What about what the Canadian Dollar is backed by, and who’s in charge of it?  To preview, it’s not gold, and it’s not the Federal Reserve.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-02-24-what-is-money-series-part-2-what-is-the-canadian-dollar</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Localizing Your Minimum Wage]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Minimum wage has been a hot topic as far back as I can remember.  If you’re an employer it can feel like government needlessly meddling in the free market, while for employees it feels like its never high enough to make a difference.  This is especially true where oversaturated labour markets are combined with high costs of living (HCOL) (which is pretty much everywhere at this point).  Workers may need 2 or even 3 minimum wage jobs just to cover food, shelter, and transport in these areas, and would probably love to see minimum wage lifted.  Employers in less-dense areas are faced with the opposite problem; even if they advertise pay “above minimum wage”, acquiring and keeping entry-level staff in HCOL areas is a constant battle.  In this case, my recommendation is to localize your minimum wage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-01-27-localizing-your-minimum-wage</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What is Money Series - Part 1 - What is Money?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“What is money?” sounds like a bit of a silly question.  You’d probably hold up some cash or maybe flash your debit card.  But I challenge you with this: imagine a 5-year-old asking you this question.  How would you answer?  If you showed them a $20 bill, they might respond with, “I know that’s a money, *but what is it?*”  If you manage to explain that the bill is worth $20, they’re next question is going to be, “how many is your card?”  How would you answer that?  At some point you’d probably end up trying to distract them with something else while you worked to ignore the dread feeling that you should have those answers, but don’t.  Never fear, for we will attempt to explain it in such a way that you’ll have an answer for 5, 15, 50, or 95-year-olds by the time we’re done this 4-part series!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-01-20-what-is-money-series-part-1-what-is-money</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beatings? No, Meetings Will Continue Until Morale (and Efficiency) Improves]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We’ve all been in meetings that seem to be stuck in an unending loop of “discussions” going nowhere while simultaneously ratcheting up everyone’s emotions as the minutes past dinner continue to climb.  You stand to leave as you reach your limit and declare, “It’s past my bedtime”.  If only there was a way to make meetings more efficient!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-01-13-beatings-no-meetings-will-continue-until-morale-and-efficiency-improves</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Technology Never Changes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Technology never changes” sounds insane, doesn’t it?  Of course it changes!  Far too fast!  New models of smartphones, laptops, refrigerators, cars, and toasters every year!  And that’s just hardware; software and the internet move even faster.  Every time you open your social media app of choice you’re greeted with a new *thing* to figure out.  But under the hood of version 999 of all these newfangled widgets, they’re all the same as they’ve ever been, because technology never changes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2025-01-06-technology-never-changes</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What are Basic Computer Skills?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Look at any white-collar office job posting from the last few decades and you’re likely to see something like “basic computers skills” listed as a requirement.  “Great,” you think to yourself, “I can use technology, after all, I managed to find this job posting!”  And if you’re on the hiring end for a position that’ll be spending six to eight hours in front of screen, you’d certainly hope applicants would know that they need to be able to use a computer.  Ten years of bookkeeping experience?  Reception?  Managing remote staff?  In a Venn diagram of work experience and basic computer skills, those should be a near complete overlap!  We shouldn’t need to train them at all!  Can we be sure though?  It turns out “basic computer skills” doesn’t have a universally accepted definition.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-12-15-what-are-basic-computer-skills</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Makes a Website Good?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Can you help make our website good?” is one of the most loaded questions I get.  There are many aspects to this question’s galactic gravitas, and their root is another question: what makes a website good?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-12-09-what-makes-a-website-good</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Find Things on the Internet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I’ve been on the internet since the mid 90s.  Once I started “cyber-schooling” a few years later my time spent in front of a screen skyrocketed.  One of the time vortices both for and outside of school was finding things on the internet.  Everything from encyclopedia-style information pieces to news articles to music to games; the hunt was relentless.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-12-02-how-to-find-things-on-the-internet</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Personal Responsibility & Mammoth Steak]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Sam did it!”  You can hear the edge in the child’s voice as they attempt to shift blame for whatever minor misdeed they may-or-may-not have masterminded.  In the court of humanity our feelings take wide precedence over objective justice.  Even if there’s no fallout or formal punishment for that thing we did wrong, we really don’t like taking the blame.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-11-25-personal-responsibility-mammoth-steak</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Become Unbannable]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Americans just had a big election, and Canada’s next has been effectively underway for a while now.  Automated moderation systems are being increasingly relied upon by large social media networks and are running amok with bans (I may be biased on this one, see [“The Technology Deleted Me”]( https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-10-07-the-technology-deleted-me)).  Opinions are everywhere, and many social media users live in fear of getting booted from their platform of choice over an innocuous post.  “Of choice” usually being where the largest concentration of their connections also have accounts.  For me that’s Facebook; for others it might be Instagram, Snapchat, Bluesky, or X.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-11-18-become-unbannable</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Create a Job Application]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The internet has had tutorials for job applications for a while; I remember searching for and reviewing them as part of “Career and Life Management (CALM)” in grade school.  But it still never hurts to go back to the basics!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-11-04-how-to-create-a-job-application</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cloudy With a Chance of Servers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What is “the cloud”?  And more importantly, who cares?  The term has been in use for years and is long past the point of being a buzzword, but it might become relevant again as we enter the next phase of the cycle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-10-28-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-servers</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Training the Dog in Us]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week our household acquired a dog.  I’ve had and trained dogs before; four in total over the course of about 20 years.  But it’s been about 6 years without one, and this one is an inside dog, which is completely new to me.  Old habits die hard though and I’m finding nuggets of skills and knowledge slowly returning.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-10-21-training-the-dog-in-us</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Technology Deleted Me]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I posted “Delete the Technology” talking about the idea of removing entire technological elements from your life, such as smartphones or social medias, as a way to simplify.  Little did I know one of those elements in my life would soon be deleting me…]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-10-07-the-technology-deleted-me</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ugh, Passwords!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There aren’t many things in the technology realm that evoke the same level of disgust as having to deal with passwords.  For I.T. staff printers are a close second, but for everyone else, passwords are something most would gladly vote off the island.  Unfortunately they play a key role (pun fully intended) in verifying your access to your accounts, the same way a physical key verifies your access to your home.  But why are they the way they are?  And are there any ways we can make them easier to deal with?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-09-30-ugh-Passwords</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Delete the Technology]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Does your life feel overly complicated?  Do most things feel like 10 steps when they used to be 3?  Does simply maintaining your existence feel like a hamster wheel with hopscotch squares on the inside?  Do you find yourself yearning for “simpler times”?  While there are many things in a complex society outside our control, personal technology choices are still within our purview.  Maybe it’s time to consider deleting some of the tech from our lives in an effort to simplify.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-09-23-delete-the-technology</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Should You Upgrade Your Phone?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apple held one of their regular events last week and announced the iPhone 16.  The inevitable repeating questions ensued.  Should you upgrade your phone?  Is it time?  Is it worth it?  What about Android users?  Should I switch to an iPhone?  Should I switch to an Android?  If you’re looking for a short answer: no.  If you have an attention span longer than that of a ferret, there is some nuance to be had.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-09-16-should-you-upgrade-your-phone</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Tasks Get Done (In an Org)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Have you heard the phrase “death by committee”?  The idea being put forward by the phrase is that a project or task is doomed to fail if given to a hierarchically-flat group instead of an individual (see also “death by a thousand cuts”).  While an individual decision-maker will almost always be more efficient, most organizations that are not for-profit (and even many that are, such as publicly traded corporations) are run by a governing body.  If you find yourself in this situation you may be asking yourself, “how do we even get anything done?”  As with many things, the answer is relatively simple, but can be extremely difficult to implement, for the exact reasons we just went over.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-09-03-how-tasks-get-done-in-an-org</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[One Skill to Rule Them All]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A common question interviewers ask is variations of, “If you could impart one piece of advice to everyone listening, what would it be?”  I would answer that in the context of the workplace, reading comprehension is the base skill that underpins everything else.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-08-12-one-skill-to-rule-them-all</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Secure Communications]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This week would have normally been a “People” category post, but with the news of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about secure communications instead.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-08-26-secure-communications</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Is a PDF?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[PDFs are everywhere, and pretty much everyone has used one at some point.  How did we get here?  What even are they?  And is there anything we can do to make using them easier?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-08-19-what-is-a-pdf</link>
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      <itunes:duration>3:16</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Website Is Too Expensive]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Since the dawn of ubiquitous internet, websites have been vying for our attention.  The intention behind commercial websites was harmless enough; to inform you of products or services available, like a stereotypical medieval street sign indicating blacksmith, tavern, or baker.  But this quickly turned into an arms race with Madison Avenue advertising types employing every dirty trick they could think of to get eyeballs on screens.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-08-05-your-website-is-too-expensive</link>
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      <itunes:duration>2:05</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Paper Copy Please!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On a Twitter thread about a fairly technical product a customer asked if the creator would consider making a paper version of the documentation.  Their discussion got me thinking; is there a market for paper manuals for digital systems in our digital age?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-07-29-paper-copy-please</link>
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      <itunes:duration>2:13</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Subscription-Free, Cloud-Free Office]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Even if you don’t consider yourself a “technology person” you’ve probably experienced “cloud” outages.  We’ve had some large ones in the news recently; CDK Global last month (that was the car dealership one), Crowdstrike last week, and AWS seemingly always (they have so many they’ve become genericized and a meme).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-07-22-a-subscription-free-cloud-free-office</link>
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      <itunes:duration>4:48</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who Is Taylor Perron?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A gallerist I follow on social media posted some advice for artists working on their artist statements (something like a professional bio but targeted at potential collectors instead of fellow art professionals).  One of their key points was to make it more entertaining and less like a dry, just-the-facts-only resume.  And so I present to you a sci-fi version of my professional background!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-07-15-who-is-taylor-perron</link>
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      <itunes:duration>3:03</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bitcoin For Your Business]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You may have spotted the mention of a Bitcoin discount in the rate section on the homepage, and this most likely led to the question of: Why Bitcoin?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-07-08-bitcoin-for-your-business</link>
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      <itunes:duration>1:51</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[How To Buy Internet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You’ve most likely run into this before; you’ve moved to a new home, or your office has moved, or a new branch is opening, and you need an internet connection.  Where do you even start?  How do you pick the right one?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-06-25-how-to-buy-internet</link>
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      <itunes:duration>5:34</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Writing Things Down Is For Boys Too]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When trying to come up with a title for this post I wanted to use some sort of pop culture reference to note-takers, scribes, or secretaries, but all of the common ones that came to mind were at minimum vaguely sexist.  Think of a woman walking into a male-dominated meeting and a crusty boomer exclaiming, “OH HEY the secretary’s here!”  While bemoaning my dilemma over breakfast I exclaimed, “Why is it like this; writing things down is for boys too!”  My wife responded, “I think you have your title.”  And so I do!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-06-17-writing-things-down-is-for-boys-too</link>
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      <itunes:duration>3:42</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is It Time for Linux on the Desktop?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“The year of Linux on the desktop” has been a running joke in the tech space for a while.  Every time a game studio announces Linux support, or a major security vulnerability is found in one of the incumbent operating systems, tech publications and forums fly with the question of whether it’s “finally” time for Linux to take over as the de-facto desktop OS.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-06-10-is-it-time-for-linux-on-the-desktop</link>
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      <itunes:duration>2:50</itunes:duration>
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      <title><![CDATA[True Believers & Mercenaries]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[People seem to like organizing and categorizing things, including themselves.  Hippocrates wrote of the Four Temperaments, Myers and Briggs published MBTI in the 1940s, and a modern version of the Enneagram of Personality has become popular in recent years.  (One of my favourite books on personality types is The Treasure Tree.) I have my own theory when it comes to the workplace; that most people's motivations can fit them into one of two categories: True Believers and Mercenaries.  Understanding your coworker’s, supervisor’s, and staff’s motivations can help you understand and predict their actions, and hopefully ease frustrations when they do things opposite of what you would choose.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>https://scalebright.ca/blog/2024-06-03-true-believers-and-mercenaries</link>
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      <itunes:duration>4:26</itunes:duration>
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