Productivity

Let me cut to the chase. We all hear it all the time: AI is going to change everything. And also: everyone hates AI slop. For me, using an AI editor significantly improves my writing and helps avoid ...

A few months ago, I published a Substack about my struggle with networking called "The Pain of Networking as an Introvert." Many of the people who read it reached out and shared their own struggle a...

Like most companies, we are trying to get better at using AI, and especially creating small AI prompt generated Python scripts to automate simple tasks that can take time. Also like most companies, w...

I was going through PADT's YouTube videos to gather performance metrics and noticed that a seminar we did on effective online meetings back at the start of the pandemic was still getting views. A lot...

I've been using Microsoft Planner to manage the chaos that are my various tasks here at PADT. And even though there are a lot of changes I would make to it, in general, it works well. One big hole i...

I use Microsoft Excel to keep track of so many things and have always wanted an Excel Checkbox that works like putting True or False in a cell (or 0 or 1). Then, just like my discovery of the new'ish...

Do you use the Excel function Xlookup() yet? If you use Microsoft Excel as much as I do, you probably look stuff up using the tried and true Vlookup() or it's less popular sibling, Hlookup() function...

Let’s be honest, Microsoft Excel is the most commonly used engineering software tool out there. And that is coming from a person who has used Ansys for 35+ years. It is something everyone has, and ...