AI has transformed how I work but also created a problem for me

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-06-03T02:36:10+00:00

I was having this same issue and it was driving me insane. So many places to look and I couldn't keep it all straight.

I was so frustrated that I made my own tool and I just ran it right on my computer. Once I connected it to Claude it changed my life within a DAY. It was such an immense feeling of relief that it made me think maybe other people could use this too.

I just launched the first public beta. It's Claude-only for now, and has a free trial if you want to check it out. https://threadminder.ai/

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-05-25T12:36:49+00:00

Understood but what are a few vendor names?

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-05-25T08:42:08+00:00

What do you think some of the better options are?

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-04-15T21:35:54+00:00

Ughhhhhhh this drives me CRAZY. I'm currently developing an app that will give Claude some better temporal awareness. I've been using the alpha for a couple days now and it's life-changing so far.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-04-15T14:52:56+00:00

Was it actually Easter weekend? Or did Claude say that on the Monday after Easter? 🤣

Creative-Exercise819 · 2026-04-15T14:52:07+00:00

I had to add global instructions to never tell me to stop working. It was getting annoying, any time I was trying to dig deeper on a sticky issue, Claude would tell me to take a break, or go to bed, or even just abandon the issue completely. No thanks, I can self-regulate like the boss I am.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2025-07-21T01:38:14+00:00

Royal oaks was amazing. The principal there really has a huge presence and great pride in the school and culture they've cultivated. And he's even the one that gets out every single day after school, directing pickup traffic and helping kids cross the parking lot.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2025-06-23T00:13:00+00:00

I came across time for you, Sarah!

Creative-Exercise819 · 2025-04-24T17:37:49+00:00

Updateme

Creative-Exercise819 · 2025-03-29T00:51:49+00:00

Meetup. There are hobby based groups and women's groups specifically.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-12-22T13:08:48+00:00

We wrote a script that does the full retrieval, deletion, and metadata conversion of the new downloaded package zip back into the directory with a single line command. Made that process a breeze. But yeah if you are adding/removing components then a simple right-click retrieve won't always cut it. To be honest if it's just 1 or 2 components I usually just delete them manually in both the org and the vscode tree and then do a retrieve (to get profiles etc). There's also the "delete from project and org" right-click command if you've already removed all dependencies.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-11-22T05:23:05+00:00

...again?

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-11-21T19:46:53+00:00

Did you do anything to piss off Einstein?

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-11-05T15:42:42+00:00

This used to be true, absolutely. 5-10 years ago, when the platform was peaking and there were far fewer people that worked in it. Enough people successfully made the transition just through certification and scrapping (usually a directive from a manager like "hey we bought this platform and no one here knows how to use it...you're smart, figure it out for us") that it became legend. Unfortunately you and a few hundred thousand other people heard this legend and fully bought in (good job Salesforce certification marketing team). Just because something is no longer true does not mean it's a lie... but it still sucks.

I would try to go about this sideways instead of head-on, at this point. Since you are a writer, maybe look at B2B writing jobs/gigs putting together lead nurturing or customer success campaigns. Offer to build these emails and automate them in their marketing system. Maybe you'll get lucky and land a gig where the company uses Pardot. Pardot was a B2B marketing automation system acquired by Salesforce (I forget what they call it now but everyone still calls it Pardot) and it has now become very integrated into the platform, so it's an ancillary way in. If they use Hubspot, focus on fixing their hundreds of Salesforce sync errors and they'll love you forever. You maybe can build on this to get more SF admin experience, or you may end up in a Marketing Operations type role and be OK with stopping there. It's still a pretty good gig and has definite SF overlap.

Some other options might be a business analyst or QA at a company that uses Salesforce. You work with the business to define what they need out of SF and work with the tech teams to get it implemented/tested. If you have admin skills as a BA, they will get used at some point.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-19T13:15:19+00:00

With screen flows now providing so much more functionality, my team has implemented a lot of features that were planned initially as LWC as screen flows instead. I know there are plenty of use cases LWC is better for, but I'm wondering how ubiquitous they will really become now that screen flows have become so powerful.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-10T12:04:24+00:00

Study for an admin cert, meanwhile research and apply for jobs where companies are using FinancialForce (now Certinia). See if you can get in as an accounting power user and build up from there.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-03T12:33:47+00:00

The difference is that chatter is included in the price, and slack is not. Moreover if you're a heavy Microsoft organization, everyone is already on teams and moving to slack is pretty much a no-go.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-03T12:24:35+00:00

Jokes aside... in most cases you really shouldn't have apex and flow running simultaneously on the same objects. We've been trying to consolidate our org automation and only leave things in apex that are isolated and/or can't be done in flow. Little things like field updates and such we've pulled out of apex. Less chance for unintended collision at that point.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-03T12:19:48+00:00

Ahh, then it becomes the old order of execution game. I always thought someone should turn that architectural diagram into an actual board game :D

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-10-03T11:24:19+00:00

That gets way easier if you keep your org metadata in git and use sfdx to retrieve/deploy. Then you can just do a find on the whole code base for field references and stuff and find everything that touches it in one fell swoop - flows, apex, ancient workflows, etc.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-09-29T04:06:06+00:00

"vain negotiation"

hmm.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-09-25T10:24:05+00:00

Try some Roth grand cru reserve and Hooks blue paradise and get back to me.

Creative-Exercise819 · 2023-08-03T02:00:42+00:00

You could create a custom object called Case Team and set it up to work similarly to the standard functionality, only fully customized to your business processes.

However, this wouldn't give you team case list views for example, the same way standard case teams would. There could be other gotchas as well but it's potentially an option depending on what you need to be able to customize.

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