sg2018 – Keynote – Mickey McManus

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Generative Learning is a fascinating theory of encouraging your brain to consider and link new ideas with old in order to better understand those concepts – this video is a great example of both generative learning and generative design and how we can can better prepare ourselves for the future as revolution cycles start to change. Thanks Mark Finnern for sharing! #cognitiveneuroscience#generativedesign

PlayerUnknown: Battlegrounds

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This was a strange introductory experience for me, but one of my work colleagues and friends was responsible for the SAP Sponsorship/Partnership of Team Liquid and he suggested that this game was blowing up. I started watching gamers play it on Twitch (ChocoTaco) and looked like fun, and prompted me to build a gaming PC and try it out. For the past 5 years I have surprisingly been hooked … from eSports to watching some great players/streamers like TGLTN, this game has really been a key entertainment generator for me. Playing this game has a huge pressure factor, and being a competitive person, it is so awesome to win a “Chicken Dinner”. I think I have taken photos of nearly all of my wins, and being a very mediocre gamer, something I have actually been quite proud of. read more

2018 SAP TechEd Live Interview

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I had a nice Live Studio interview with Britt Womelsdorf at the 2018 SAP TechEd event chatting about the SAP Cloud Platform SDK’s. Check it out here:

(The video has since been taken down, but here are a few photos).

The general script below is what I planned to use:

1.) Paul: Quick introduction …

  • SAP IT, responsible for developing Android apps for SAP’s 90k employees.
  • And today we will be chatting with Britt Womelsdorf, who is part of product management for the new SAP Cloud Platform Android SDK

2.) Paul: “With mobility being a key priority for organizations, it seems like SAP has responded to this by delivering some important user experience frameworks over the past 7 or 8 years, including SAPUI5, OpenUI5, Apple iOS SDK and now the Android SDK, why do you think these are important to organizations?”

   Britt: Mobility high-level, IT department, enterprise and organizational level opportunities read more

Phillips 66

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I had a nice opportunity to present some offer internal IT work we were doing at SAP, with the oil giant, Phillips 66. It was a great conversation sharing what, where and how we are deploying SAP BTP, apps and mobile solutions to help our company and its employees be successful. Here are a few slides and key take aways from the meeting.

SAP IT mission statement is “Empowering our people to work anywhere, anytime”

Whats also interesting is that just about every department within IT, has some variation of our IT mission statement.

We have noticed a significant change in User Expectation towards Business Models and IT and somewhat of a quest to build user centric IT services, and our efforts are increasingly focused on simplifying and improving the quality of work life for employees. read more

Personality Traits?

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Did you know that heredity is the most dominant factor in your personality? An intriguing example of this is the “Jim Twins”:

https://mctfr.psych.umn.edu/research/UM%20research.html

One example of the amazing similarity of twins reared apart is the so-called “Jim twins”. These twins were adopted at the age of four weeks. Both of the adopting couples, unknown to each other, named their son James. Upon reunion of the twins when they were 39 years old, Jim and Jim have learned that:

  • Both twins are married to women named Betty and divorced from women named Linda.
  • One has named his first son James Alan while the other named his first son James Allan.
  • Both twins have an adopted brother whose name is Larry.
  • Both named their pet dog “Toy.”
  • Both had some law-enforcement training and had been a part-time deputy sheriff in Ohio.
  • Each did poorly in spelling and well in math.
  • Each did carpentry, mechanical drawing, and block lettering.
  • Each vacation in Florida in the same three-block-long beach area.
  • Both twins began suffering from tension headaches at eighteen, gained ten pounds at the same time, and are six feet tall and 180 pounds.
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