Charles

After the Uniform: The Hardest Part of Transition Isn’t What You Think

I remember sitting in my office as I started the retirement process. I had taken out a blank piece of paper and started to plan the next chapter of my life. No PCS orders.No mandated timeline.No new duty station. Just a pen, a quiet house, and a question I wasn’t prepared to answer: What amContinueContinue reading “After the Uniform: The Hardest Part of Transition Isn’t What You Think”

Predictions are Cheap

Even if you have no desire to use AI and don’t care about Machine Learning, It is still important to understand them so you can understand where they are being used.

Grounded in Grace: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jesus, and the Fight of Faith

Last Fall my wife and I were discussing which sports to get our two youngest sons into, considering our oldest son and daughter were already engaged at their local high school and junior high respectively. It wasn’t long before we decided on allowing them to try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. As I understood it, a lotContinueContinue reading “Grounded in Grace: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jesus, and the Fight of Faith”

Why Business Analytics?

We find ourselves in a unique situation and company’s have a decision to make. Do we hire a data scientist now or do we hire a data scientist later? We now have access to more information and it’s growing at an exponential rate. Without getting into the numbers and size of growth, what we mustContinueContinue reading “Why Business Analytics?”

Mental Moonlighting from the Home Office

You are spending an absorbent amount of energy working to find a new balance, during the new COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Meta Data and your everyday life

When you’re using your social media platforms to share your breakfast, or searching for the perfect surround sound system, how does it effect your web browser searches on Google or Facebook?

On Redundancy & Subject Matter Experts

For the purposes of subject matter expertise, redundancies are the processes and procedures that are utilized in the event that a system is not available, is no longer functioning properly, or simply broken. Redundancies are what subject matter experts call, backup plans.

Split Parenting & Dad 101

Dad 101 is an experiment that started in 2018 and has carried over to today. Dad 101 lessons are basically lecture style classes that I give to my kids that end with something fun. Something fun is sometimes a treat, sometimes a visit to a place of their choosing like a restaurant or the children’s museum.

Thoughts on Machine Learning

ML algorithms and the ML models produced are powerful for your organization, but keep in mind that people are, and will always be the most important commodity.

New Job – First 30

The first 30 days of your new job not only establishes your role in the organization, but also who you may be perceived at the rest of your time there.