33 Tangents is a podcast that covers a wide range of topics from digital analytics to business and technology to remote work.
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Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
We're taking a break this week for the 4th of July Weekend. This episode originally aired on January 10, 2020. We'll be back with new episodes starting on July 17, 2020.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim welcome Liam Martin for a discussion and debate around remote work in general, fostering collaboration with remote teams, and how to manage a remote workers.
Liam is a serial entrepreneur who runs Time Doctor and Staff.com - one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world’s largest remote work conference - Running Remote. Liam lives in Canada but travels 3-6 months out of the year due to his ability to work wherever and whenever he likes.
While both Jason and Liam support the ability for workers to choose where and when they work, they have different perspectives which will lead to a rousing and exciting conversation.
HIGHLIGHTS
- 1:25 - Introductions.
- 5:00 - Un-retired snowbird.
- 9:00 - Is remote-first scalable?
- 14:30 - What is the most obscure place where you have an employee based?
- 17:35 - What would you say to companies that would rather have nothing instead of hiring a remote employee?
- 23:20 - Designing your remote team.
- 28:15 - Yahoo and remote work.
- 33:45 - Experience with time and activity tracking software.
- 39:50 - Is there a single way to run a remote team or company?
- 43:10 - Can you innovate and collaborate as a remote-first company?
- 46:25 - Liam’s recommendations for convincing a company to allow you to work remote.
- 55:00 - Remote work in 10 years.
- 56:30 - Wrap-up
STUFF WE MENTIONED
Running Remote YouTube Channel
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Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, Jim and Jason tackled the concept of being human at work. The conversation focused around the idea of having a “corporate version” of yourself that removes any personal details.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jenn joins Jason and Jim to continue the conversation and talk about being human at work from the perspective of not being machines. This year has been stressful and draining on everyone for multiple different reasons. We’re not machines meant to stamp out widgets. How do we deal with this? How do we support others? How do we express this to our management?
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Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Recently Jason contributed to a Forbes article by Brent Dykes that discusses the need for businesses to focus on data, especially now.
What are we seeing businesses doing in the face of adversity? What is driving this reaction? How can you help message the need to focus on data to the rest of the org?
"Why your business must double down on data", by Brent Dykes
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Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of just “checking the box” with analytics related work. If you take a serious look at your day to day, how many tasks that take up your time drive actual value? In today’s environment, there is an increasing number of talented individuals looking for work. How can you make the time you spend every day have high impact and value?
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Bryant are joined by Eric Matisoff to talk about things you should focus on and not focus on to get the most out of your work day.
Eric is the Sr Evangelist for Analytics & Data Science at Adobe with 15+ years of experience working with data and visualizations. Eric works with Adobe customers and partners to help align their business strategies to the vision Adobe has defined for data ingestion, analysis, and action. He has recently written and released Adobe Analytics For Dummies and you can find recent content of his on the Adobe Summit website along with the Adobe Analytics YouTube channel.
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of just “checking the box” with analytics related work. If you take a serious look at your day to day, how many tasks that take up your time drive actual value. In today’s environment, there is an increasing number of talented individuals looking for work. How can you make the time you spend every day have high impact and value?
Highlights:
- [1:05] - Introductions.
- [13:30] - What is Adobe currently hearing from customers as needs have rapidly changed?
- [20:00] - Tips and tricks around auditing data.
- [25:30] - Simplification and flexibility.
- [32:00] - How quickly could you get useful data?
- [40:15] - How people use a product as compared to how it was designed to be used.
- [45:45] - One thing you should stop doing today.
- [55:15] - Wrap-up.
Items we mentioned:
- Eric's book, Adobe Analytics for Dummies
- The Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK documentation
- Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK Use Case Roadmap
- AutoHotKey
THANK YOU
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
We’ve been conditioned that we need to have a corporate image while at work. Personal items remain at home and are not intermingled with work. Personal causes and beliefs should be suppressed and not shared.
The last couple of months have been trying on multiple fronts. People are scared, stressed out, and struggling to manage at times. The Covid-19 pandemic has required corporate office workers to work from home and home school children at the same time, resulting in the sounds of family in the background of conference calls. The recent murder of George Floyd and resulting protests and demonstrations have stirred a wide range of emotions in so many. People have inspired to break down the stoic corporate image and share their personal feelings and stories.
Why have we been told we need to have our “corporate image” that is devoid of personal notes? How can you be human at work and share what is going on personally? What happens to a team when everyone starts shedding their corporate facade?
THANK YOU
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The 33 Tangents video simulcast is now available on YouTube
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Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
There are many benefits to working remotely such the time saved from not commuting to the flexibility of where you can live. With that however comes downsides such as isolation and lack of connection with others. This week Jim and Bryant are joined by Kyle Ladewig, CEO of Out Of Office to talk about their solution for this.
Out Of Office started with the belief that you should be free to choose when and where you work, so you have more time for everything else. It is a fully remote, venture-backed startup that helps other remote workers feel less isolated through in-person and online co-working groups called Work Clubs.
While remote work provides flexibility when it comes to finding work-life balance, the problem is that pretty much all remote work happens alone. Even before the current situation, one of the biggest issues facing remote workers has been isolation and loneliness. Out Of Office’s mission is to give remote workers a great place to work and help finding people they can enjoy working alongside.
Highlights:
Items we mentioned:
- Out Of Office
- Report by Cigna on loneliness in the workplace. (Jan 2020)
- Paper by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom about Chinese company Ctrip’s work from home experiment. (2014)
- Study showing correlation between loneliness and hospital visits. (1999)
- Paper by Julianne Holt-Lunstad that showed loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. (2010)
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Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
We're taking a break this week for Memorial Day Weekend. We'll be back with new episodes next week, May 29, 2020. This episode originally debuted on January 11, 2019
This week Jim and Jason sit down and have a conversation with Ben Gaines who is a Group Product Manager with Adobe. Ben shares his insights and learnings from what it was like when he started with Omniture to what his day to day looks like today. Ben discusses what it means to be a product manager with Adobe, what he sees as the current trends in Analytics, and how he stays focused on the strategic view of the product.
WHAT YOU’LL HEAR…
🔊3:00 Who is Ben Gaines?
🔊6:00 Ben talks about introducing using social, at Omniture, to support customers.
🔊10:45 What led Ben to consider a career as a product manager?
🔊19:20 Ben talks about what it is like to be a product manager at a brand like Adobe.
🔊30:30 What does Ben see in the future for the digital analytics industry?
🔊41:00 Ben talks about the maturity of Adobe's Analysis Workspace.
🔊47:25 What is it like to have haters and fans?
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Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
On this week’s episode of #33Tangents, Jim and Jason are joined by Matt Barnett, CEO and founder of Bonjoro.
Bonjoro is a company that is disrupting business communication with personalized video emails. They believe that video is a huge level to bring the human element back to business and their motto is “automate processes, not relationships”. Bonjoro is based in Sydney Australia but has employees around the world.
Highlights:
- 2:15 - Introductions.
- 7:00 - Making business authentic and personal.
- 15:00 - Creating the human bond.
- 17:00 - Learning about customer behavior.
- 27:30 - How Matt manages his remote team.
- 32:00 - Is now the time to hustle?
- 37:30 - The biggest learning from running a remote company.
- 40:00 - Advice for those that are uncomfortable being on video.
- 45:00 - Funnel optimization and using data to constantly learn.
- 55:00 - Wrap up
Items we mentioned:
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Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason, Bryant, and Jim are joined by Nic Fitzgerald to talk about the art and power of good storytelling.
Nic is a filmmaker based in Utah. His studio, Friendly Giant Films is a production company that works with companies, individuals, and others to create feature films, commercials, and other visual media products. Nic helps his clients use storytelling to build deeper connections with their audiences.
Highlights:
- 1:30 - Introductions
- 6:00 - Storytelling binding humans together.
- 10:30 - Being intentional
- 14:30 - The history of the name behind Friendly Giant Films.
- 17:30 - Humanizing data to enhance the solution storytelling.
- 30:00 - The importance of authentic stories and messages.
- 39:00 - Brands that are successful at genuinely connecting with audiences.
- 50:00 - You cannot fake being genuine.
- 55:00 - The importance of sharing the bad and the good.
- 62:15 - Wrap up.
Items we mentioned:
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Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
This week Jason and Jim are joined by returning guest Stephen Marshall. Stephen is a professor and department chair at East Tennessee State University.
The conversation looks into the cost and value of higher education and Stephen also shares how ETSU is supporting students during this uncertain time.
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