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People Management. Leadership. Productivity.

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Ep. 47: The AI State

The U.S. Government is moving from deregulation tech to actively providing national sponsorship to support AI companies. This investment is propping up GDP in the short term and has started a new tech cold war with China. Data and Society Paper - https://datasociety.net/library/the-big-ai-state/ This Machine Kills Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/443-behold-the-big-beautiful-ai-state-ft-brian-chen/id1526914048?i=1000747951140

13 min
FEB 1

Ep. 46: Parent as CTO

I am a passionate technologist as well as a parent. Our kids are growing up in a world ubiquitous with technology. Some of it good, some of it distracting, and some that is outright parasitic. Trying to control the technologies our kids get exposed to is a daunting task. I’m sharing some of my successes with a few failures along the way. You won’t be perfect, but you are not powerless. Principles for Parenting and Tech · Modeling – Use tech how you want your kids to use it. Practice what you preach. · Friction – Make it harder to do things that you don’t want you kids to do. · Limits – You set them and enforce them. Kids will test them · Precedents – Once you make a choice, it is easier to stay consistent with that choice · Single purpose tech over multi-purpose tech · Pay over “free” · Know your kids and what is right for your situation

23 min
JAN 28

Ep.45: Career Skills for the Wicked World

Skilling – training a worker to do a specific task Skilling is work-oriented, discrete, and measurable. Skilling is necessary but not sufficient. Skilling isn’t as durable as general-purpose learning: critical-thinking, leadership, and empathy. A kind learning environment builds skill by practicing the activity alone. A wicked learning environment has unclear or incomplete rules, there may or may not be patterns, feedback is delayed, inaccurate, or both. If your learning journey is only skilling-based, you are missing the breadth that will apply across many work domains and enrich your humanity.

15 min
JAN 23

Ep. 44: M365 Researcher AI Agent – Networking and Job Search

1.Networking 2.Individual Job Research 3.Personalized Job Search 4.Career Development Plan Networking Prompt: “look at [ur] find every person and organization mentioned. then find if each person and each organization has a linkedIn profile and a bluesky profile. create a table for organizations with columns "name", "LinkedIn" and "Blue Sky". create a table for people with columns "name", "LinkedIn" and "Blue Sky".” Individual Job Research Prompt: “look at the job posting here [url] . review this job and let me know what the likely salary range is. review the company and team and find all the people you can associate with the job. ideally find me the hiring manager, recruiter, team members and people who work closely with the team. use my linkedin profile to see if i have any connections to them []linkedin_profile_url] generate a sumamry that will help me network. give me name, email, and linkedin profile if possible.” Personalized Job Search Prompt: “take a look at my resume. look at my skills, education, and experience. see what jobs are currently open and posted that would be a good fit for me. return the 5 jobs that I am qualified for that would likely result in increased compensation.” Career Development Plan Prompt: “look at my resume and build me a 1,3, and 5 year career development plan to move into an AI research position.” Book: https://www.amazon.com/People-Management-Ground-Up-Aspiring/dp/B0DBGQ57XT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-dempsey/ Website: https://peterdempseywrites.com/ Newsletter: https://peterdempseywrites.com/newsletter/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petedempsey.bsky.social YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@TalkToMePeteyD Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-to-me-petey-d/id1745885025 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NrlsWzansuCfuApMCZzj0

17 min
JAN 16

Ep. 43: Where are the limits? Grok disables sexual violence as a feature.

Grok/X has finally relented and turned off the ability allowing X users to Grok's generative AI to sexualize images directly on the social platform. We’ll unpack the harms caused and why this is different than existing deepfake tools. Find Me: Book: https://www.amazon.com/People-Management-Ground-Up-Aspiring/dp/B0DBGQ57XT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-dempsey/ Website: https://peterdempseywrites.com/ Newsletter: https://peterdempseywrites.com/newsletter/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petedempsey.bsky.social YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@TalkToMePeteyD Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-to-me-petey-d/id1745885025 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NrlsWzansuCfuApMCZzj0 Adobe Education Safety Failures: https://gabb.com/blog/adobe-firefly/ Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wrapping-up-a-hellish-2025-2025-12-15/id1690426042?i=1000744975889 Decades of Deregulation Corey Doctorow – Enshittification Focus of AI Safety Nerds Adam Becker More Everything Forever Decline of Men Scott Galloway Notes on Being A Man Luiza Jarovsky – AI Backlash as a Regulatory Tool https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/ai-backlash-as-a-regulatory-tool

24 min
JAN 10

Ep. 42: Steve Kerr: Leadership and Culture

We examine, former NBA player and current coach, Steve Kerr’s transition to leadership. Kerr lives authentic leadership and earns his players’ respect. His culture is: · Joy · Compassion · Competition · Mindfulness Porcupine Leadership: https://peterdempseywrites.com/porcupine-leadership/

13 min
JAN 5

Ep. 41: Agents Deep Dive

Review of the level 3 training in the Microsoft Power Up series of training on Copilot Studio and Power Platform via the Microsoft Power Up program. The Agents Deep Dive training covers more advanced prompting, custom search / RAG, and Adaptive Cards. The training provides a bridge to move from no-code fundamentals into more advanced AI capabilities.

8 min
12/22/2025

Ep. 40: Managing Anxiety from Job Insecurity

Uncertainty and insecurity are the rule in tech’s current labor market. We will explore some helpful and not so helpful ways that we can manage this stress.

19 min

People Management. Leadership. Productivity.

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