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It has been a week filled with great technology learning moments.

I attended the Amplify CollaborateIT conference on Tuesday. Here are some of the incredible takeaways from the keynote speaker, John McElligott who talked about Embracing Disruption. John works at York Exponential in Pennsylvania. He spoke about Robotics,  Humanized Computing and mind controlled bionic arms OH MY!  To say the least, I was in my techy element.

This week I listened to this podcast - Is Facebook Spying on You? Have you experienced talking about a product and then having it appear on your Facebook Ads?

This book was recommended to me and I’m going to start reading it over Thanksgiving break. It’s about coping with the exponential increase in computing power.




 Happy Thanksgiving everyone. A friend made me a turkey placeholder like this one.  Simple and fun!

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