From Chicago, currently in Colorado. Love the mountains and getting outdoors. Amazon Business by day, working on Procurement Intel every other moment I get.
It's amazing how much companies discount human behavior. Ex, when you implement an ePro system with a confusing interface that adds 20 steps. Do you expect people to use that?
๐ They're going straight to Amazon or Walmart. And now you've lost all control.
Simple is best.
Biggest Lie running in Enterprise Software Sales right now:
"We're a family".
No.
You're a mercenary hired for 1 year contracts. Win the war, or be replaced by cheaper mercenaries.
The "family" you do get to have, is simply the other Reps and RDs in the same scenario as you.
Took my weekly 1:1 doc, which was taking >30min to update, and automated the parts that took the longest.
I just asked our internal AI tool for help working through it. I've done similar things to be more productive and effective and it all compounds.
I've been using AI tools since getting access to ChatGPT around late 2022. Today I gave my 2nd "how to use AI at work" high level training just this week.
It's still early days with AI. As people start to realize how much time it saves them, adoption is going to accelerate.
Been building a tool for months, learning Python along the way. Demo'd it for a buddy in procurement - who this benefits.
Great feedback.
Loved what it does. Said he doesn't have the skillset or tools on his team to do what it does.
Now working on making it accessible.
Ran into an issue with formulas in Excel at work. From learning python via tools like ChatGPT, Claude & now Meta AI, was able to quickly put together a python script to do what I needed way faster and better than messing with formulas.
This is fun!
Been using ChatGPT and Claude for a while now. Built some things that have been really useful with them as my guides. Tried Meta AI recently and am impressed.
Just got access to llama3 and excited to start building it into what I've put the most time into.
It's been a crazy month. Opened a medspa with my (now) wife in just 12 days, then got married 2 weeks later (last week) at Copper Mountain.
My pants split on the way to my wedding, then we snowboard down. It was an awesome time!
A good friend who's amazing at sales asked me about investing as a way to grow his $$$. We've had a few conversations over the past couple years about investing philosophies, and I've shared some resources I've learned from...
If your total taxable income, married filing jointly, is over $364,200, you'd pay 20% in taxes vs. 32% if it were regular income, keeping an extra $9,035.28 in your pocket.
(Disclaimer... not investment advice. Math was done at 4:30am when I couldn't fall back asleep)