33 Tangents is a podcast that covers a wide range of topics from digital analytics to business and technology to remote work.
Episodes
Friday Aug 03, 2018
Friday Aug 03, 2018
This week Jim, Jon, and Jason discuss two different, yet related problems faced by remote workers today. The first is the concept of being “always on”. The expectation, explicitly stated or implied, that you’re always accessible via phone, or email, or a messaging platform such as Slack. The second piece is distractions. This could be the latest email that comes into your inbox, the tweet you just got, or the alert that just popped up on your phone. Both of these take discipline to manage to prevent being thrown off track. How can these be dealt with? What are some of the steps that can be taken to manage them?
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Friday Jul 27, 2018
Friday Jul 27, 2018
Remote workers often feel the need to take extra steps to prevent exposing they are not in a corporate office, unlike their counterparts who are in a corporate office. The most common example of this is background noise during a call. Remote workers often take every precaution to prevent anything being heard in the background while those in an office don’t notice how noisy it sounds on the other end. At the root of this is a need for the remote worker for their professionalism and ability to complete work to be called into question. This week, Jim, Jon and Jason discuss this mindset along with moments that have happened to them and while stressful in the moment they can now be laughed at. A few even helped strengthen the bond with the client.
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Friday Jul 20, 2018
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Please Note: We ran into some technical difficulties recording this week’s episode so the sound quality suffered at times, but the content was great and wanted to make sure we still shared it.
This week Jason and Jim are joined by Jenn Kunz, Principal Architect and implementation extraordinaire, to discuss the finer points of designing solutions. Components such as wiring up a tag or building a feed are only a part of the entire solution. The ability to keep a view of the bigger picture, identify all of the nuances, and ensure that those technical components satisfy the business need or solve a problem is the more critical piece.
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Friday Jul 13, 2018
Friday Jul 13, 2018
There is a growing desire across many industries for flexible working terms. What does it mean to work in a flexible work environment? What are some of the common pitfalls when moving from a rigid to flexible work arrangement? This week, Jim, Jon, and Jason tackle the topic of flexibility and work. With each having spent time in very rigid organizations that dictated everything from where, when, and how work will be done, there was desire to seek out or create the opposite type of atmosphere.
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Friday Jul 06, 2018
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Growing up and early in our careers many of us were taught to seek out employment with a large company or in government in order to have a safe and secure job; job security should be our number one priority. Do job security and stability really exist? Is there greater risk in avoiding what appears to be risk in the pursuit of stability and security? What are those risks? Having spent time working for large corporations in a “safe” job, Jon, Jason, and Jim talk about the lessons they have learned, what stability and security mean to them, and how taking risks, to different degrees, have led to realizations about what is truly stable and secure.
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Friday Jun 29, 2018
Friday Jun 29, 2018
It’s easy to lose control of your calendar and have how you are going to spend your time dictated to you. Have you ever looked at your calendar and wonder if all of those meetings are necessary and important? What are some ways to ensure you control your time and schedule? The struggle is real. This week Jim, Jon, and Jason discuss the ever present problem of too many meetings, not enough time to work on the critical items, and steps they’ve taken to prevent their calendar from being over-run.
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Friday Jun 22, 2018
Friday Jun 22, 2018
Are you established in your career and looking to make a change to digital analytics? Do you know others in the space and what they do interests you? Continuing the topic from the previous two weeks, Jason, Jon, and Jim discuss their thoughts on steps people can take when they’re looking to make a pivot to digital analytics when they’re already established in another field. If you’e ever wondered what The Simpsons and the Albuquerque Isotopes have to do with analytics, you’ll find out this week.
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Friday Jun 15, 2018
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Previously, Jason, Jon, and Jim discussed the unique paths and experiences in their career that brought them into the Digital Analytics field. As we’re approaching season, they discuss the advice they would give to those about to enter college and those about to start their careers and who are interested analytics. They talk about the experiences that have played a significant role in getting them to the point they are today and what they have learned along the way.
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Friday Jun 08, 2018
Friday Jun 08, 2018
There are many careers for people to choose from that have a predefined path from beginning to end, starting with school and ending with retirement. What many of us have found is that Digital Analytics presents something different, a career and industry that is wide open with people from many different backgrounds and educational training. After getting frequently asked how they got into this career, Jason, Jon, and Jim decided to talk exactly about this this week. They talk about what they went to college for, what they planned to, and the choices that led them here.
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Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Recently the use of Twitter by high profile people has been in the news again, and not in the good way. As a leader of an organization being authentic and genuine on social media can enhance how you are viewed and add value to your brand and products. With one misstep however, things can easily backfire. This week, Jason, Jon, and Jim talk about the use of social media to promote your brand and how certain uses of it can sabotage your team and product.
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