Justin’s Life: April 9, 2021

My wife and I, like many, deal with occasional bouts of imposter syndrome. It’s something we talk about not infrequently, and it recently led to a short discussion on how movement through one’s career can evolve from getting paid for output to getting paid for knowledge. I foresee a blog posted devoted to that soon, […]

Justin’s Life: April 2, 2021

Hey, a second one! Here’s the first. This page may use affiliate links. That means if you use any of those links, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Justin’s Life: March 26, 2021

I’m trying out a little something new, sharing some tidbits from the previous week. This page may use affiliate links. That means if you use any of those links, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Nothing particularly novel

How to Import MODIS Imagery into Max

MODIS satellite with the Max digital graphics look… … what kind of sorcery is this? Did I size and position a downloaded image just right? While I will admit to being a bit of a weirdo about that sort of thing… nope, it’s layered in Max. Our chief meteorologist in Ohio wrote a blog in

Three Challenges, Part 3: New Entrants

It’s been quite some time since I wrote Part 1 and Part 2 of this little series. A little thing happened in the intervening time… I left local TV. It was time for a new challenge, although I didn’t really know what that looked like. I was pretty darn sure that it didn’t involve staying

Three Challenges, Part 2: Generalists vs. Specialists

I was recently asked to come up with three significant challenges that I believe the broadcast media industry will face over the next few years. I’ll separate each into an individual post. Here’s part 1. My second challenge: generalists vs. specialists. Of course, anything written about the future has to include something about AI, and

Three Challenges, Part 1: Burnout

I was recently asked to come up with three significant challenges that I believe the broadcast media industry will face over the next few years. I’ll separate each into an individual post. My first challenge: burnout. A trend I have seen by those in broadcast television over the past several years is that talent is

Hot-cold empathy gaps and hot car deaths

I regularly listen to NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast. I always find it interesting, but a recent episode, “In The Heat Of The Moment: How Intense Emotions Transform Us,” made me think about the problem of kids being left in cars and dying of heat stroke. In the cases of it being a terrible accident, I

Don’t blow it all up

One podcast I recently subscribed to is You Are Not So Smart. Yes, the name piques curiosity. Anyway, I haven’t prioritized actually listening to the episodes I’ve downloaded until the other day, when I finally got around to listening to an episode entitled “Meetings.” The general idea of the episode was that we almost universally

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