Talk To Me Petey D
People Management. Leadership. Productivity.
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep. 56: AI Literacy – Mental Health
Can AI really replace a human therapist?In this episode of Talk To Me Petey D, we continue the AI Literacy series by digging into one of the most sensitive and high‑stakes domains for artificial intelligence: mental heal...
Ep. 55: AI Literacy – Marketing
What does AI literacy really mean—and why does it start with marketing?In Episode 55 of the Talk To Me, Petey D Podcast, I kick off a new AI Literacy series by exploring how the term artificial intellige...
Ep. 54: Leadership Coaching with Dani G
Disengagement at work is rampant. In this episode we explore why connecting our work to purpose is so important. This is a big challenge; I am fortunate to be joined by Dani G, a leadership coach, to unpack the issues together.Dani’s det...
Ep. 53: Digital Executive Presence
We explore how to craft your own executive presence in the age of remote work and video calls. How you present yourself influences how you are perceived. Being intentional allows you to control your own narrative. Book:...
Ep. 4: Compartmentalization
· Managing stress to prevent burnout· Boundaries and breaks· Early to bed, early to rise· P...
EP. 52: How To Read More
Everyone can build an identity as a reader. We’ll cover a few simple techniques you can apply to your own reading practice.Beginner: Short interval reading, once or twice a dayIntermediate: Always have a book with you. Read multip...
Ep. 51: Behavioral Interviews
Behavioral interviews test your ability to articulate our cultural values and how you live them in the real world. I offer up some advice from my years of experience interviewing for a diverse set of roles. The behavioral interview is important...
Ep. 50: My Ring Search Party is Over
When our consumer devices become nodes in a mass surveillance network, we have the opportunity to influence privacy rights with how we spend our consumer dollars. In this episode I talk about my personal choice to remove my Ring doorbell camera...
Ep. 49: AB-731 AI Transformation Leader Test Prep
My study guide to prepare business leaders and managers to pass the Microsoft AB-731 Certification. While parts of the test are Microsoft specific, this knowledge applies across all AI solution providers.
Ep. 48: Questioning AI Assumptions
AI will evolve and replace human skillsProgress is inevitable. AI will keep getting “better”AI requires an entirely new and different skill setAI is a general purpose technology
Ep. 47: The AI State
The U.S. Government is moving from deregulation tech to actively providing national sponsorship to support AI companies. This investment is propping up GDP in the short term and has started a new tech cold war with China.Data and Society...
Ep. 46: Parent as CTO
I am a passionate technologist as well as a parent. Our kids are growing up in a world ubiquitous with technology. Some of it good, some of it distracting, and some that is outright parasitic. Trying to control the technologies our kids get exp...
Ep.45: Career Skills for the Wicked World
Skilling – training a worker to do a specific taskSkilling is work-oriented, discrete, and measurable.Skilling is necessary but not sufficient. Skilling isn’t as durable as general-purpose learning: critical-thinking, leadership, ...
Ep. 44: M365 Researcher AI Agent – Networking and Job Search
1.Networking2.Individual Job Research3.Personalized Job Search4.Career Development PlanNetworkingPrompt: “look at [ur] find every person and organization mentioned. then find if each person and each organization has a li...
Ep. 43: Where are the limits? Grok disables sexual violence as a feature.
Grok/X has finally relented and turned off the ability allowing X users to Grok's generative AI to sexualize images directly on the social platform. We’ll unpack the harms caused and why this is different than existing deepfake tools.&nb...
Ep. 42: Steve Kerr: Leadership and Culture
We examine, former NBA player and current coach, Steve Kerr’s transition to leadership. Kerr lives authentic leadership and earns his players’ respect. His culture is: · Joy· &nbs...
Ep. 41: Agents Deep Dive
Review of the level 3 training in the Microsoft Power Up series of training on Copilot Studio and Power Platform via the Microsoft Power Up program.The Agents Deep Dive training covers more advanced prompting, custom search / RAG, and Ad...
Ep. 40: Managing Anxiety from Job Insecurity
Uncertainty and insecurity are the rule in tech’s current labor market. We will explore some helpful and not so helpful ways that we can manage this stress.
Ep. 39: AI Automation isn’t Free
We were told AI and then AI Agents would be drop-in replacements for human workers. We aren’t there yet. Thoughtlessly swapping people for generic AI solutions will, at best, result in “so-so automation”. We’ll take a look at what pre-requisite...
Ep. 38: Agents in Action
This course will take you from zero experience to building AI agents hands on in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The training covers prompt design, workflows with Power Automate, declarative agents, and a final project building an autonomous agent.
Ep. 37: Monetizing Consumer GPT Chatbots
Today’s AI is the worst AI you will ever use vs as good as it getshttps://peterdempseywrites.com/this-might-be-as-good-as-it-gets-for-genai/&...
Ep. 36: Why GenAI Systems are Biased
Symbolic AI vs Deep LearningBiased in data equals biased rulesCorrelation vs causationBias in tuningCultural bias LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-dempsey/Website: https://peterdem...
Ep. 35: A Wakeup Call for Tech Workers
We take a deep dive into the current labor market in the tech industry. How we got here, the impact of genAI, how tech impacts all workers, and what we might do about it.https://peterdempseywrites.com/a-wakeup-call-for-tech-workers/...