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On the Value of Reading for Writing

Conversation Agent

I do write from a multiplicity of egos as Virginia Woolf suggested. It was time to reassemble. I'm reading In the Margins, and realizing how much harder it is to write as a woman. Most of my ideas are original. But I haven't tried my hand at fiction, yet.

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Introducing Intercom’s European data hosting

Intercom, Inc.

Ten years ago, we built the initial Intercom infrastructure in AWS’ us-east-1 data center in North Virginia, USA. Technology makes every company a global company, and our focus on data security means Intercom customers all over the world can experience the full benefit of Intercom – no matter where they’re geographically located. .

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How Not To Engage Employees: Telecoms Lead The Way Again

Beyond Philosophy

Perhaps that approach might explain to senior management how it feels when your boss says you will have to leave your home in Virginia to work in Arizona until August. Not surprisingly, an outside-in approach is also remarkably effective at improving Employee Experiences. My personal background is in telecoms.

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Video Games versus Customer Service

Taylor Reach Group

You emerge from an underground vault in the setting of West Virginia to discover things aren’t as expected. Bethesda’s Fallout 76 is a multiplayer retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic online world in which the player’s character is tasked with restoring civilization with other players.

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September Is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Execs In The Know

The organization has more than 600 NAMI Affiliates across the country along with 49 NAMI State Organizations and national NAMI headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

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AI Is Just Opinions Written In Code

Beyond Philosophy

We discussed this on a recent podcast with our guest, Broderick Turner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Marketing at Virginia Tech. Instead, it could be the same old human biases coming out in ones and zeroes but given a new authority it might not have earned.

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AI is just opinions written in code! Have you built in AI Ignorance?

Beyond Philosophy

Assistant Professor of Marketing at Virginia Tech., Currently, AI is not capable of making these decisions; only human coders have that power. In this episode, we talk about today’s AI and its flaws with our guest Broderick Turner, Ph.D., and founder of TRAP LAB (Technology Race and Prejudice LAB).

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