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Saturday Snap – Unyonismo

¶ Posted 27 September 2025 § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history

Wisdom Wednesday – Shout Out To Thin Air

@ryanjamesahern #sales #b2b #george #manager #salesmanger #corporatehumor #corporatelife #officelife #office #officehumor #work #worklife #shareholders #profits #waste #quota ? original sound – Ryan Ahern

¶ Posted 24 September 2025 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, orgdevl

Music Monday – “Everyone’s watching, to see what you will do/Everyone’s looking at you,/oh Everyone’s wondering, will you come out tonight/Everyone’s trying to get it right, get it right

Had a busy weekend… Went to meet my local councillor at his “Coffee with a Councillor” event and ended up bumping into enough of city council including the Mayor to have quorum for a meeting! (not pictured – Councillor Mark Burton) Had a great chat about taxes, mega projects, development, and yes, even though I […]

¶ Posted 22 September 2025 § Library § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education

17 Words For My 17th Anniversary of Working at RPL

Today was my 17th anniversary of starting work at RPL and, coincidentally, I spent it in bargaining all day as a representative of CUPE1594 (not going to lie – a bit sad no one on management side congratulated me!) 😉 Anyhow, I thought it might be a fun exercise to randomly pick the first 17 […]

¶ Posted 08 September 2025 § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Jon Stewart on the Canceling of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”

Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up" pic.twitter.com/v8MrNpg28w — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2025

¶ Posted 22 July 2025 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, music, television, unitedstates

Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act? How do they treat people? How do they support people? How do they enable people to do their best work? Are they well-liked by staff? Do staff even know who they are? (If they don’t, do […]

¶ Posted 11 June 2025 § MemoryLane § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, orgdevl

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 10 Promises to Myself (August 2010)

Fairly early in my career, I wrote a post called “10 Promises To Myself” where I tried to outline how I would approach my career and how I would always try to be true to my own values even if there was pressure to compromise for career advancement or financial rewards or even just pressure […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2025 § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – The Two Core Types of Personalities

Humanity is forever trying to put people into boxes – 34 CliftonStrengths, 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, 5 Conflict Styles, 4 True Colours, etc. etc. One observation I’ve had over the years is that, when you boil it right down, there are really only two personality types – black & white thinkers and grey area thinkers. […]

¶ Posted 04 June 2025 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: education, language

Friday Fun Link – AI Video Is Unreal

Apparently right now, each AI video takes the equivalent energy to running a microwave for an hour. But when the world melts, at least we’ll have a bunch of deep fakes to think of… We are cooked. Google Veo 3 just broke the internet. 10 wild examples 1. Nothing is real anymorepic.twitter.com/IZdIinReNk — Md Riyazuddin […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2025 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, education, health, science

Wisdom Wednesday – (Most) Work Is Not That Serious

Especially for public libraries and doubly so having an RN wife who’s entire job is working with high risk pregnancies, knowing that every single day, the wrong decision could result in bad health outcomes or even death for a mother and/or baby. Here’s how I often frame it: “Libraries aren’t heart attacks and handcuffs even […]