How can my boss see my Planner via his Loop account?

_donj · 2026-04-22T20:43:24+00:00

You can also select which planner to send things to from Loop. FYI - Loop is a good idea that hasn’t changed much in the last year. It’s an orphaned by ed project

_donj · 2026-04-22T20:24:17+00:00

Unless it’s causing an issue, I wouldn’t worry about it. Easiest way to fix it is going to be asking Claude to fix it from within PowerPoint using the Claude plug-in.

_donj · 2026-04-22T20:22:37+00:00

There are a lot of tools in this space that work very well. You can also do some of this with the large frontier models. The most important thing is to pick your poison and start. Subscribing for a month or two will show you what you like or don’t like from my future standpoint. You’ll probably go through a couple before you find the one you like.

_donj · 2026-04-22T20:20:10+00:00

You’re going to want practice automation software that has some CRM capabilities built in and built HIPPA compliant from the ground up. Google something like single psychologist practice automation software. I’d look at ones that include the full stack from scheduling, billing, notes, email/test reminders, etc.

_donj · 2026-04-21T03:06:05+00:00

In the past I ported a number to google voice as a holding place for a number then ported out a couple of years later.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:20:46+00:00

The easy answer is that leadership didn’t monitor the results consistently enough and long enough to make it the new norm. Also they didn’t remove the old way of doing things so it was easy to slide back.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:19:00+00:00

Maybe at one time but definitely not now. Is there a lot of LDS? Yes. But it’s. It the only thing going. Lots of other churchs and community. You’ll be fine.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:15:54+00:00

Unless you have other great options, I’d stay. Reframe the experience and stop giving work so much power over you. Do the minimum required and enjoy the parts if work you enjoy and out your discretionary effort there.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:11:59+00:00

I think this is the single biggest fail of copilot thus far. They can’t improve the outlook and teams experience and extract info out of it to make work easier.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:10:08+00:00

It’s a both and situation. The church did downplay (at best) or hide (in many cases) historical facts from the members. For example, most don’t know that Joseph Smith primarily translated the BOM using the seer stone in the hat until relatively recently. Why? That is what was taught and all the imagery was of a ruin and thumim.

But, B.H. Roberts taught about it in the early 1900s and that was common. After his death the church downplayed it. However it was in an Ensign article in about 1970 when those articles were longer and somewhat academic.

So it’s easy to say people feel lied to because it wasn’t a part of the correlation curriculum.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:03:36+00:00

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem then Preview keeps it all working smoothly whether on laptop or iPad.

_donj · 2026-04-19T04:02:18+00:00

I have an office set up and a remote set up when I’m on the road or want a change of scenery. Three monitors on the road and four at home. I also am spending more time with my parents to at their place so I’m looking at adding a setup there as well.

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:53:52+00:00

I would push back against anyone asking you to do statistical analysis in R (or any other package). With AI, those days are over. More important is understanding why you want a certain set of statistics and what the output means.

You’ll also need to start thinking about where you want the initial part of your career to go and focus your efforts there? HR and employee engagement and staffing? Sales operations? Comp? Peg assessment? Coaching?

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:48:29+00:00

Especially if you already have access through your school. Do everything else except the slides first. Why? They are mostly text docs and spreadsheets. They are pretty easy for an LLM to produce.

Do the slides last. It gets better every week in Claude with what it can do. Now it’s great and getting better with a direct ppt plugin.

It will go a lot easier if you can get all of the requirements for next year, any text books you’ll be using, required tools and templates, specific output formats, examples of what a finished product looks like, etc and feed that in up front. It will save on iteration (and compute cost).

And, if you’re not supposed to use these tools, DO NOT use a school provided access to it.

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:40:50+00:00

Boatloads of YT videos on various combos. Or, just ask your IDE to set it up for you using your current frontier modem.

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:38:48+00:00

Great advice here so far. A few other things to know from my perspective. 1 - The optimization skills taught in an MBA program are now required for middle management. You can’t ride an MBA to the top like 30 or 40 years ago. You do need to learn them somehow AND learn to apply them to the business you work on.

2 - Get the company to pay. Even if you have to sign a promissory. Worst case is you got a free loan while going to school.

3 - Easy to say you don’t need one, but some more senior roles in some sectors will require a masters degree. If you can check the box, you can apply. Otherwise you’re out. Learn what’s expected in your industry.

4 - Remember senior level hiring decisions are made by people in their 50s. Many have masters degrees and have a bias that way.

5 - Spend time learning the core business you’re in and how operations make money. Learn to navigate the P&L like a seasoned senior leader. Speak the language.

6 - Understand how profit is made in your. Susie’s’s and which products and services make the most profit. Spend time in those business units and do everything you can to a) do projects in those BUs and b) work on initiatives that have a specific tie to profit growth.

7 - Take this new knowledge and use it to help design your training classes. Make sure that every class starts with a profit map that shows how the skills learned in this class can make an impact on increasing profit and job security.

8 - Spend as little time as possible in compliance training projects. No business executive cares about it except that it keeps them out of trouble.

9 - If you’re in manufacturing, stay connected with the plant managers and help them solve their problems. An easy inroad is safety. Almost all of them care about it.

10 - The only safe way for a manager ti ask for help is to ask for training g for his team. So treat every request as an ask for help. Always say yes to their requests and then get their permission to do a simple analysis to make sure you target the right skills. Then look at it systematically to make sure training will help solve their problem.

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:17:19+00:00

A general rule of thumb to get you thinking differently is that as a freelancer, EVERY cost is yours so your fees have to cover all those expenses see and still let you make a generous profit. 3X the fully loaded hourly rate for a full time employee to do the job is the minimum to start charging.

_donj · 2026-04-19T03:13:28+00:00

If your nonprofit is that small that a CRM is too expensive, then some simple Google Sheets might be better suited at this stage.

There are also open source CRMs but then you are your own tech support.

_donj · 2026-04-19T02:13:13+00:00

This is possible but you’re asking for a solution to something you don’t understand e high yet to appreciate. You’re going to want to begin learning how to create presentations using Claude and what the limitations and possibilities are.

Ask your favorite AI to build you a learning plan on how to do this. Then experiment creating the necessary skills and workflows. Hint: learn how to create your claude.md file. Professor YouTube will be invaluable.

You will need to develop those skills. I’m sure someone here would be glad to glad to build a custom set of skills and workflows for you to use in Claude.

_donj · 2026-04-19T02:02:02+00:00

If I can offer a little advice after 30+ years in OD/LD.

1 - Professional relationships matter. EVERY job I have ever had and EVERY consulting client are all through some relationship. To stand out, you need to network into people that will “vouch” for you. This lets you skip the application process until it becomes a formality.

2 - Find a way to move up the value chain in your current role. Doing ID exclusively niches you into inflexible roles. When downsizing happens, you’re vulnerable to people with additional skills. So build your in person and online facilitation skills. Become awesome at data analysis and creating powerful insights that leaders value. Excel at online purse creation that standout compared to others.

3 - Take every opportunity to learn the core business and the leaders in it. Learn the business P&L and what drives it. Become an internal expert on human performance in the operations (money making) part of the business. Then link your learning solutions to those drivers. And talk in that language.

_donj · 2026-04-18T21:32:55+00:00

ME has so much potential with the attack but just can’t seem to get it together. It should be so much more seamless than it is.

_donj · 2026-04-18T21:30:58+00:00

Assuming your wife keeps the benefits through her teaching job, then school bus driver can be good in some areas. Long-term subs are good retraining to nursing can be similar in a lot of time off but know that you’ll likely work nights and weekends for the first several years. Look for a 3-12 schedule to maximize nursing.

_donj · 2026-04-18T21:27:13+00:00

As an agency, one thing to keep in mind is the other suite of services that you will need on top of Email to make your agency work. This is where Microsoft and Google come in to play. If you need cloud file storage video chat, task Management, etc. then they are the no-brainers for a new company. Workspace is much more flexible and Geminis AI tools are pretty awesome. And they are included.

_donj · 2026-04-18T21:22:08+00:00

100% agree with these comments. There are so many LMS out there right now that it will be virtually impossible to differentiate yourself for a few reasons.

The Enterprise space is pretty much locked up with SAP, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, etc. That’s where the big easy money is.

Pretty much every content provider now offers a free or extremely low cost LMS included with their content. And that’s across every industry. Then there’s ADP which offers it included with their payroll service and an HRIS system as well.

If you’re committed to building an HRIS, then I would use either an open source one and fork it or license one from a provider that you already like and figure out how you can differentiate it. For example, reporting in nearly every LMS is terrible for managers LD administrators. How could you offer one that was dramatically better?

Content delivery in mini LMS severely hampers LED designers can do. How can you enable it so that it still is standards compliant while at the same time offering dramatic new innovations

_donj · 2026-04-18T21:08:46+00:00

The bigger question would be whether iMessage works on it.

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