Don Jacobsmeyer

Entrepreneur | Technology Advisor

[Don Jacobsmeyer @DJacobsmeyer]

@clairevo I so appreciate this take.

I actually took up studying how organizations work and the messes they make for themselves as a hobby/side project during covid. If you don’t understand people, it’s hard to understand a large group them and the structures/procedures they created.

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@sweatystartup I agree with the comments about adjusting the question.
Project work is very different than product work. Starting a codebase from scratch is different than contributing to an existing one.

But with a gun to my head, the modern dev world runs on JavaScript, for now.

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What's amazing to me is that anyone who pays for an #Office365 license typically doesn't even use 30% of all the features that licenses comes with. For example an E1 license (baseline $12/mth) can...

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@ramit @politico Great principles. Especially the long term implications on housing. Most of the other things could be reversed later, housing changes persist as physical infrastructure which can’t simply be reverted.

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This is the way

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To anyone who is a #zapier power user

Remember when you first got hooked on zapier and all the things you can connect together?! Then it got expensive…

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@Madisonkanna Hopefully all these replies aren’t from solo coders. Doesn’t matter if you are a programmer or anything else… get a mentor even if they don’t know you exist. GPT doesn’t count

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@Madisonkanna Good points here. One thing I don’t see much discussion on is leaning into a team or mentor? I agree that coding is an infinitely growing skill base.
As someone who has hired many devs over the years, if there is a team for them to join, they don’t need to know everything.

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@PHFAWiessmann @yfreemark What about the quality of these buildings? Utility cost for renters is rarely prioritized as an outcome. In the most extreme seasons, utility costs can force low income renters to have services shut off or move.

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@alexiszotos Not since I switched to att fiber ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@shawngorham Yes mold is not to be overlooked, but I’ve head more and more cases of people getting sick from new construction building materials. If you have a new house where she lives year round, you might need ERV/HRV (which means don’t open doors and windows unnecessarily) @MattRisinger

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@shawngorham Lots of good thoughts here, won’t be redundant, but there are some key questions overlooked.
Has she always had allergies or is this new?
Is it year round or only in pollen season?
If she’s already in college is it more prominent there?
Very different directions from here.

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If you use the same password for all your online accounts, you are waiting for your personal information to be hacked AND at the same time waiting for someone else save you from yourself. Do you also leave your house keys in the lock when you leave?
#technologyliteracy #passwords

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Valuable nugget from @DrJayCarter

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Everyone is quick to have an opinion from headline news on big topics, *especially* if they don't how those topics work.
#technologyliteracy #dominionvfox #beyondfast

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We are still watching the first batter in the first inning of AI and suddenly everyone who has no technical background whatsoever is an expert. Generative #AI is just really good at the guessing game. It might have massive "knowledge" but no true #wisdom.

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...all for the price of a domestic stadium beer.

Who wants hot fresh business automation?!

#data #automation #business #microsoft #businessautomation

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While walking my dog today I thought of an experiment to run.

I wanted to see if I could create a workflow to launch a neighborhood power washing business, using only a Microsoft Office E1 account. Sidewalks in my area, and I'm sure many others, are gross if you pay attention.

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So yes, today I built:
- a Form to collect power washing service requests
- Automation to populate the data into a List
- automated confirmation emails (which could include a payment link)
- and create an event on a user's calendar for them to execute on.