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Hooah Valentine's Day! In celebration of my love for federal IT work, here's a quirky story about my first Low-Code/No-Code solution presented by then, PFC Enrique "Gizmo" Gomez to his first federal "client"... the US Army 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood (now Cavasos), circa 1997. As a member of the finance team quartered within the 1st Cav Division HQ building, we supported all of the fine men and women dedicated to providing our nation's security. On a daily basis, we processed promotions, allotments, changes in pay, pay advances, hazardous duty pay, "death gratuities" (sadly), and an assortment of other services related to payroll. Processing was one step better than punchcards (but not much better), where snippets of code were entered and then uploaded as a batch each night, with error reports indicating which transactions had errors and had to be corrected. QA was completely manual and prone to high errors which impacted soldier pay. Using a simple MS Access database and simple front end (as it was all we had), a small team of front counter staff, including myself, designed and refined a process to automate the front-end and customer facing workflows where the transaction codes were written up front and validated by the acting NCO (non commission officer in charge of customer service) before it even got to the coders. This reduced error rates from 30-35% to under 1% overnight, and even lower as the process was refined. My reward for a job well done you ask? Being tasked out as system security officer to oversee Y2K compliance for the brigade. And so began my journey in IT and solutions design. This is where it all started. Cheers!

Was down in South Florida last week and had my favorite coffee spot CALI COFFEE every single morning, even driving 15 minutes for it some days 😎 Every day I ordered the same thing, an iced Baywatch (coconut and white chocolate, yum) with oat milk. Out of 6 days, only once did the staff ask me if I had a number for loyalty. 5 of my visits didn’t count for my loyalty because I wasn’t asked to put my number in. I don’t blame them, they’re 17 year olds working summer jobs with drive thru lines sometimes 10-15 cars deep and they’re focusing on making drinks and being efficient. This is why credit card based loyalty is crucial for brands. No friction of having to train staff to ask guests for a number when busy, or to rely on guests to remember to do it. If Cali Coffee used Thanx, they would know my daily order, my frequency and how much I spend automatically each time I come in and pay for my drink. It’s why Thanx is the future of loyalty 🩵

Guys, please recognize Bot Nation BS when you see it on the internet. It’s just special interests feeding the system, trying to leverage the algorithm to inflate their nonexistent platform (kinda like the current stock market. Great numbers, but a horrid market in real life for the every day consumer lol). Stop feeding into idiocy. Let’s think critically for a moment: Why the hell would democrats rig the most watched tv event in AMERICA in favor of one of the most conservative electorates in America? Does that make sense to you? If they wanted to rig something, to shine a spotlight on their cause, why not rig it in favor of the Liberal capitol of America in SF? Wouldn’t that make more sense to give SF the love, have the parade there, attempt to make it look like a livable and lovable city where dem policy helps people thrive? What will you all say when the Chiefs win it again NEXT YEAR, becoming the first team in NFL history to 3peat days after Trump is sworn into office, with the electorate of KS and MO helping him get there?

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For the last 2+ years, I have been deeply immersed in the idea of WARP. Many have called me crazy. Working at WARP has taken me to the other side of the world, quite literally, and demanded long days, time away from family and friends—time I will never get back. As a methodical person, I view this as a tradeoff. Most people see working somewhere as a tradeoff for money. They would think it's "crazy" for me to work this way just for a paycheck, and I 100% agree. However, the reason I work the way I do isn't for that 1:1 tradeoff. I work this way because I truly believe in WARP's vision. Every minute I spend on WARP, we are one step closer to building a logistics platform that will connect a fragmented industry of shippers, warehouses, and carriers. The potential impact of this is unfathomable. The best analogy I can think of is having a child. One of the amazing things about having a child (though I don't have any children myself) is that you create a legacy—someone who can have a great life and potentially make the world a better place. With children, you give up everything with the aspiration to make the world better, and I feel that I can do that every day with WARP.

Win a 4 day trip to Peacock Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade... * includes roundtrip airfare to NY * 4 night stay in Manhattan hotel * 4 tickets to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade https://lnkd.in/gu2tp8KC I only posted this because I initiated the China being the largest owner of GE that owns NBC Universal Peacock account back in 1978, 46 years ago (same year I initiated China being the largest owner of Disney account & Disney owns ABC, CBS, FOX, Fox films, Lucas films, Pixar films, & Blue Sky films and with the profit from that China now owns 5000+ US companies that employ 5,000,000+ US workers). I also made $3.4T for the US Treasury in 2004 making me the primary owner of all US workers since 2004. So no, your largest owner is not a kid. But yes, I already fulfilled the prophecy 'and a little one shall lead them' as an 8 year old prodigy preacher in 78 same year I won a GE science contest that got me flown to Disneyworld followed by Hawaii to initiate those 2 big accounts with China since I'm Chinese American (not Korean that evil war profiteering dark tares have been tricking TV idiots to say so they would lose their job for slurring against their largest owner so the dark tare can take over their job) & related to the 1st Emperor of China over 5000 years ago on my mother's side (the King side). But I was born in Ohio & had only been to China only once in my life, so I'm actually pretty clue-less about China. My family moved to California in 89 (39 years ago) because we had kin here since the 1800's that built the railroads followed by the Chinese Theatre in the early 1900's that was built with actual parts taken from the real Chinese Emperor's Temple built 4000+ years ago & is so big, it's called the Forbidden City. The first show in the Chinese Theatre in LA was 'King of Kings' about Jesus Christ. Ironically, if you pray & ask Jesus Christ or the Holy Mary who I am, by holy miracle, they both point up because my line started over 3000 years ago before Christ. Shem traveled to where China is over 5000 years ago to where China is to start the Shemitic aka Semitic line aka root of David line aka the Chosen messengers of God by blood line. That's why so many previous chosen messengers of God lived so long. And that's why I'm 54 but look 25. It's the one line you can not blaspheme against or you get cursed. For rest, open your facebook account & click on the link below... https://lnkd.in/gi8fqDjJ

While preorders are critical, anytime a friend has a book come out I prefer to get it IN the store that day to: 1) ensure some launch day foot traffic to show demand 2) tell the staff they're either low on inventory or (in this case!) SOLD OUT and clearly need to reorder fast! 3) make the store aware of the title if they never stocked it Today was pub day for these 3 titles, all of which I now happily have in my apartment and can't wait to dig into: - Daisy Auger-Domínguez Burnt Out To Lit Up - Adriana Carrig The Power Of Little Words - Terry Szuplat Say It Well I'm lucky enough to be attending book talks for all three so posts about each will likely follow... And for now, highly recommend following each of these authors (and all around incredible humans!) as you'll see some of their posts about their books and more. And if like me you're hoping to write your own non-fiction masterpiece, one more related launch from today: Fran Hauser and Bethany Saltman, cohosts of the insightful BookBound podcast, launched their substack today. It is full of incredible tips for all aspiring authors. Highly recommend subscribing! Happy reading and/or writing!! And if you know of any other books w/ pub dates today or in the near future, please share below so we can all support!

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It took me 6 attempts to get a store manager position. I was told that you have to keep pushing for your goals and serinity. It took 6 times. I kept pushing, growing, learning, surrounding myself around other goal setters Dream chasers People who Have Only Positive Expectations Kept building my platform and laying the bricks on my foundations of core values. The 5 other interviews taught me that not only was I not ready, but I also needing to grow and take on a new challenge. 6: this number is often times associated with the devil or evil. To me this numbers represents faith and power. To keep pushing for what your dreams are. I told my senior store manager and my other higher ups in retail that I will be a store manager. I will keep creating positive impacts in my community and in my beautiful bluegrass state. I knew since the first day I started at a retail store I was going to start chasing a store manager position. It took goodwill finding me when I was down to my last $20 and only a quarter tank of gas to just be able to make it to my interview and back that one day I would be leading 26 other individuals to create not only a positive change in their lives but for their children, their aunts, uncles, nephews, niece’s, grand children. I also lead a group that works to create a positive life for individuals who lost faith in the world, lost hope in escaping poverty. 6 words I stand by for the 6 attempts it took to achieve my goal I Can Only Stop Me Now!!!