LinkedIn and the Art of Being Impact-full

LinkedIn and the Art of Being Impact-full

In today’s fast-paced digital world, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Platforms like LinkedIn provide an opportunity for users to connect, share information, and stay informed about their industry and profession. However, with the ease of access to social media comes the downside of seeing unnecessary and irrelevant posts. One such type of post that has been catching my attention lately is the “I wasn’t impacted” post.

Disconnecting the Dots: The Artificial High of Social Media

It’s understandable that people want to share their personal experiences and perspectives, but in a time of crisis or uncertainty, it’s important to consider the impact of our words on others. For those who haven’t been affected by a negative event or situation, it’s crucial to remember that others may not be as fortunate. Bragging about not being impacted can come across as insensitive and dismissive of the struggles of others.

Furthermore, these types of posts may be driven by a desire for attention and a release of dopamine from social media interactions. Research has shown that social media platforms can activate the brain’s reward center, creating a high similar to the one people feel when gambling or using drugs. But, is that what we want to be known for?

As LinkedIn users, we have a responsibility to use this platform in a meaningful way. Instead of posting about how we haven’t been impacted, let’s use this space to share valuable information, connect with others, and provide support to those who may be going through a tough time. Remember, LinkedIn is not just about sharing our personal experiences, but also about building professional connections, and learning from others.

In conclusion, we have to be mindful of our actions and words on social media platforms, especially in times of crisis or uncertainty. Instead of adding more noise to the feed, let’s use LinkedIn for what it’s meant for and make it a more meaningful platform for all of us.

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Reddit Response: I want to center the legend but am unable to, can someone help?

Reddit Response: I want to center the legend but am unable to, can someone help?

Found a post on reddit: Someone is looking to make the legend in Tableau centered. Centering the legend is not a feature in Tableau desktop and a limitation in Tableau, but there’s a workaround that is effective. r/tableau - New to tableau and i know this is very simple, but how would you improve this chart? I want to center the legend but am unable to, can someone help?

The objective is centering Casual and Member under the pie chart. We can use Horizontal Container Objects in Tableau dashboards to center the legend.

  1. Drag and drop horizontal container
  2. Add two blanks to the container
  3. Add legend in between

Lastly, we can distribute the contents evenly. This is a setting inside of the container. However notice this hides two things in our legend and may not be what you need, but at least you’re moving the right direction and have two options.

Using one of two options above will get you close to where you need to be. Next you may want to start playing with the legend sizes in the legend by highlighting halfway point between two dimensions.

Alternatively you can stop trying to do things that Tableau can’t do, and reconsider an alternative approach that doesn’t generate workarounds that are faulty to breaking. For example, when they swap to mobile, or ipad, what happens to your dashboard here? Are you accounting for changes at these levels today? During my time tableau consulting I’ve found people prefer legends on the right or left side of the chart VS below the chart, however if the designers asking for it, above is a few approaches.

You may try floating your legend VS fixed sizing.

Floating has a few oddities when resizing the dashboard, but for quick wins you can’t go wrong with a floated object.

Side view of legend. Alternative legend view?

I understand side view VS center isn’t the original question, but for documentation sake, let’s look at this screenshot above a little more. Notice you’re in a similar boat as the previous setting. This is a part of Tableau that you’ll need to work around using containers and blanks, or you can use “padding”… This side view scales well when more dimensions are added, and easy to fix.

Using Padding of 200 pixels on TOP we can push down the legend down VS using the previous BLANK in a container.

Padding to push the legend around may be best. I find myself using PADDING more than floating blanks.

Here’s the example of how padding can be used for the centering too.

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Recruiting in 2022, Ghosting Best Practices

Recruiting in 2022, Ghosting Best Practices

When ghosting a candidate, here’s a few steps to consider;

  1. never speak to them again
  2. don’t respond to emails
  3. block them on linkedin

This concludes the best practices piece for ghosting people on LinkedIn as a recruiter.

Recruiters ghosting is net normal.

Jokes aside, ghosting is the net normal in tech recruiting right now.

Ghosting in 2022, has become the new best practice for recruiters.

Who’s to blame? The recruiters? The app developers?

We engineers and UX designers continue to make great products for them to utilize. However are we not considering the ones that don’t make it through the system?

A system – (wiki) a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole.

One of our rules needs to be “stop ghosting.”

Recruiting is important and currently dominated by non-technical individuals who use applications. It’s hard to know every application, so it’s hard to generalize, but it sure feels like ghosting is not only prohibited but it’s likely not error handled.

The entire recruiting process defines the vibe of the company and if you’re ghosting people early, you’re defining the algorithm of success at your business.

Ghosting people in 2022 is a normal.

Ghosting is normal, unfortunately.

However, I want to suggest you reconsider a more professional alternative.

We (job hunters) are keeping track of all of you, so are machines you’re using to contact us.

Data will never hide the fact that you’re ghosting. Whether you’re hearing about it via glassdoor or when someone asks them about the process. People talk more about negative than positive events.

Make your next event, ghost free.

Why do people ghost?

It’s them, not you. It’s always a them problem. They don’t want you to learn what you did wrong because they don’t want you to be more successful.

Logically if they gave you insights it’s because they care.

However most don’t care and thus we have a huge problem.

Each day I see at least 1 person complaining about being treated poorly in a recruiting process they poured time into.

Maybe the new generation of “swiping left and swiping right” to choose a person is finally catching up to us in how recruiters are gaming these systems?

Maybe not talking to people again is easier than being a professional?

Maybe these are the people that shouldn’t be in this industry?

By Tyler

The reason I’m freelancing…

The reason I’m freelancing…

The reason I’m freelancing is because I love gaming against other people. I game against others for organic traffic. It’s a big game!

I am always getting leads via Linkedin though, and that’s hard to skip by each week as it takes up a large portion of my day. A lot of offers are starting to become “head turners” however in a lot of ways it’s more of the same work and less access to cash, expensing, and making decisions I feel are right.

Job offers haven’t changed in the past 5 years…. until just recently someone helped me with my resume.

I will admit jobs are talking about “director” however I know I look like a baby so the chances of me being in a director role feels limited. So I’ve been throttling that wrinkle cream ding ding and now I look older than fuck. It’s great!

Amount of experience doesn’t matter in the eyes of a lot of people when you get past a certain point in life, I think it matters a lot and of course whether or not you’re supporting or creating something net new is important to understand too.

A lot of people, they assume and place you. If you don’t fight or sell yourself better, you’re going to be that person.

Now, having shaken my resume enough… I see I have 12 years of experience, I realize this is the “oh shit moment.”

I’m scaling up my tableau consultancy, I’ve needed to pay two different people to help me while also helping clients however mostly focused on my family and building new business relationships. Being able to have two other people helping two different clients is really interesting. Also having them work together on one client is awesome too. Before I was always doing the freelancing work.

The reason I am freelancing is because I found path. The path is companies like Upwork, Fiverr, etc.. they make their traffic mostly by harvesting a lot of the same style of keywords in a webpage. I figured how to puncture through their ranking algorithm. I studied their ranking for a few years. I watched how they dumped money into advertising, even though there’s not that much money to make in this realm. Thousands of people do click, however less than a percent will buy. A lot of times you’re clicking yourself, or your friends are checking your page out. However each click is extremely valuable.

I freelance because I understand the value of each of those clicks, I can even tell you an exact dollar amount each click gives me because each click is aggregated I’m scored against other people.

A lot of times these clicks are robots trying to drive down my averages. However I block only the annoying bots, and let the stupid bots continue to do their stupid stuff. I don’t mind the clicks, I enjoy the clicks, and I don’t think the fake robots are driving down my ranking. If anything they are indicating to google that I’m not only quality, but I got people trying to hack my ass, and I’m still fucken here.

Freelancing is a lot like star wars galaxies before the engineers fucked it all up and they deleted the game.

A long time ago, in a server far away, they built a MMORPG, which stands for massive multiplayer online role playing game. Where a bunch of fucken nerds like me run around and pretend to be friends in order to gain off of one another in a digital enterprise we called clans, guilds, or whatever.. maybe groups?

In the clan you build houses, and they can’t be destroyed. Also you can place NPC homes which can be destroyed and they fight out the “red vs blue” style. People from the other team blow your shit up, destroy that shit and that’s the name of the game. People blowing up your gear, npc homes, and other fancy things that are hard to build and find, and craft etc.

Freelancers are always attacking each others websites for more money, and the pressure grows each day because you get more competitors the longer you rank on the internet for organic traffic.

It’s a game they play against you. It’s nonstop fake comments, hack attempts, and abuse of your website and applications to make you fail, crack, explode, and eventually quit.

I’m not quitting.

I’ve been playing a lot of VR which is nice but it’s not everything. However it’s a lot like freelancing.

I have to mute everyone otherwise I’m not having fun, and I’m in a tense mood with how rough everyone is getting with each other these days.

The companies like upwork and fiverr try to rank on many things and if you do those things you can out rank them and earn that traffic by building a wordpress website. If you built something better than a wordpress website it would be easier to rank higher. Cheers.

Sorry for the rambling, last month really was a gas. I’m tired after staying up late trying to get all those blogs done and be available to my family. A blog a day was incredible difficult and I should be able to write something decent in the future. Until then, don’t forget to add me on twitter, where I do micro blogging much more often.

I tried “one blog per day,” here’s my story.

I tried “one blog per day,” here’s my story.

While writing one blog per day, I did notice a growth in traffic across all domains, and we gained one solid potential client. I also noticed I don’t have as much to share as I originally thought. I had no strategy going into this outside of not blowing my steam on LinkedIn because I’m frustrated about how someone is being rude or lacking any human fucken decency.

Truthfully it’s difficult to just stay on topic in blogs after you do 15 or so blogs and also have a decent amount of time to do other shit. Like below this I’m just rambling about practically nothing.

I get pretty tired of doing stuff on the computer. I’m always having to study things and optimize my websites, my linkedin, everything is a landing page….

I’m looking at someones linkedin profile that shows they have 20 years of experience, now a CTO… and I’m just blown away that anyone has this much experience, looks younger than me, and then I start thinking about my experience and getting lost in this thought for a week or two…

Great. Blogging each day, or bullshitting about stupid shit on linkedin?

Watching Marc R videos for too long, thinking he’s going to make music with me, oh wait now he’s tired of the stream, so I guess that’s not happening, anyways lets just get back to making beats and writing blogs in silence! lol.

I will admit I’ve made over 100 new beats in the past 10 days, studying the greatest loopers and simply a strong desire to NOT be stuck writing code my entire life, also improv on music is a great escape, I was gaming a lot to escape but now wearing some underwear in front of my iphone and text my wife crazy beats I make acting stupid will suffice..

Hey whatever it takes to get excited about blogging, I’m just trying to figure it all out myself. Am I musician? No, probably not. I guess I’ll keep writing SQL code and practicing. Yee.

It’s really intense to be flying through music this fast. Loopers are nice, really it’s a musicians ego death and it’s a great teacher. Confidence builder.

Those are all good things, blowing steam. Right? Well maybe not when you’re the brand… Damn it. Making loops like crazy is a good thing. Cool. I wrote some blogs. Cool. Couldn’t even tell you two of the blog titles right now. It’s just a blur and utterly un-strategic.

So, mostly good things happened, however writing once per day isn’t exactly easy to accomplish. Some days I rather chill with my wife and not have a computer on my lap.

Other days I’m focused on helping a consultant with work or my sons eager to hangout and I spend the day with him, whatever the case I’m getting busy with other things and not able to complete my goal.

Completing goals like “one per day” is a good way to burn out of whatever you’re trying. I can’t tell you how many #100daysofcode failures I’ve witnessed. It’s really tragic because it not only burns you out but also gives you a big fucken edge on your shoulder that you’re completely maxing yourself out to cram this shit in and trying to act like you’re not burned out online is the net new.

If you get through 20 days of coding without taking a long break you’re basically frying your brain. I don’t know any software engineer who doesn’t take a lot of time doing other things outside of sprints.

Time off is essential. Most of your day should not be coding, I’ve made this stupid mistake. It should be thinking about code, reading code, talking about code, and walking around thinking about other stuff too.

I strongly believe there needs to be disconnection from code. Don’t power through courses. I think university is epic bad ideas compared to bootcamps available. I used to feel differently, however now I see how impossible it is to JUST CRAM IT IN… You’re not learning shit. You’re not keeping up with shit.

I will admit I’m getting more family time in since i’ve been blogging more, I’m not lost in some stupid tech dive and now i can walk away and be around them while i write. This helps me feed the fucken flame. Whatever it takes fam.

Gaming, running, exercise, sleeping, and add whatever you can in here because ultimately you will die.

Like a hobby. A friendship. More gaming. Tan? Yeah get a tan. I think blogging each day is fucken stupid. Unless it’s your job. That’s not my job. It’s just how I beat my competition in backlinks I guess. The instagram shotgun idea I gave away in this twitter automation blog may be a better bet than writing all this bullshit.

Whatever you can do to re-energize and automate this stuff…. Ugh im so tired of writing already…

As an introvert I re-energize doing something alone or in a tiny group. I think I re-energize writing, however at day 26. I’m just looking back on this and thinking, “meh…” Simply meh. No next steps.

Alright, more later.

There is a reason to my madness, people actually read this shit

There is a reason to my madness, people actually read this shit

For whatever reason you’re here and I want to say thanks. I don’t mean to call my content shit, rather I thought that would be an enticing header that people would read. I guess that’s a form of me using click bait. However that’s how you learn. You learn to share a header that may drive readership.

I’m quietly celebrating 21,000+ views on this blog. Thanks so much. With that here’s what you need to know to do this to your blog. It’s not anything more difficult than using your blog.

Below I hope to share information that leads you to understanding more about my website, why I’m writing more, and what it returns.

Recently I witnessed 49 people visit my website. Because I’m a noob, most of my readers are reading content that I wrote when I landed on a bug or attempting to learn something new. This is often because the content I’m writing is to deal with a work-around of some sort.

screenshot of analytics from tylergarrett.com

the most busy day on the website, 49 readers!

I tend to type silly headers, and then edit them when I’m done, often several times.

This header, similar to others, is eager to drive readership. Also, writing more than usual has generated an interesting change in my website Tyler Garrett.

sharing tylergarrett.com analytics showing how this month has the highest average users per day

showing analytics related to average user per day, and monthly aggregation of users

The average users per day is increasing because I’m writing more than I usually write, now all my content that is optimized to rank is now ranking higher than usual, and I’m also not sharing this content across my core social platforms like twitter or linkedin.

I’ve shared a few links to personal friends, family, and a few times on my personal and private/locked down facebook account. Here I’m seeing little to no interactions, legit 1 of my mates clicks through and doesn’t spend a ton of time here. However it’s the readers finding the tech blogs who are sticking around and for that, thank you.

I really appreciate the people who are reading, sticking around, and most of all connecting with me via social media. This is all you need to do to support my efforts. I appreciate the love here.

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sharing growth of tylergarrett.com data

The goal of showing this information is to demonstrate it’s important to blog, even if you’re writing about content that may not be super relevant to your core content funnel. The robots don’t care that you’re writing good content or bad content, of course you’re going to get better at writing and this shape on the graph happens, however I want to make it clear that simply writing a little bit of blogs each day is all it takes to drive more traffic. Also, my associated websites are gaining more ranking because of this development.

If you ever wanted to chat about your blogs, or send me a link to your website, feel free to add me on twitter.

— More about blogging from wiki; please if you’re new to blogging, be sure to dig in here and learn how you can generate freedom in web2.

blog (a truncation of “weblog“)[1] is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual,[citation needed] occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, “multi-author blogs” (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanksadvocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other “microblogging” systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users who did not have much experience with HTML or computer programming. Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and File Transfer Protocol had been required to publish content on the Web, and early Web users therefore tended to be hackers and computer enthusiasts. In the 2010s, the majority are interactive Web 2.0 websites, allowing visitors to leave online comments, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.[2] In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking service. Indeed, bloggers not only produce content to post on their blogs but also often build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.[3] However, there are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments.

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject or topic, ranging from philosophyreligion, and arts to sciencepolitics, and sports. Others function as more personal online diaries or online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, digital images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave publicly viewable comments, and interact with other commenters, is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. However, blog owners or authors often moderate and filter online comments to remove hate speech or other offensive content. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or “vlogs“), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources; these are referred to as edublogsMicroblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

‘Blog’ and ‘blogging’ are now loosely used for content creation and sharing on social media, especially when the content is long-form and one creates and shares content on regular basis. So, one could be maintaining a blog on Facebook or blogging on Instagram.

On February 16, 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. On February 20, 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr[4] and 75.8 million WordPress[5] blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is the most popular blogging service used today. However, Blogger does not offer public statistics.[6][7] Technorati lists 1.3 million blogs as of February 22, 2014.[8]