Lars Schmidt 🪩
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💼: Founder, Amplify Talent ✍️: Words: @fastcompany, Redefining HR 🎧: Host, Redefining Work Podcast ✌🏼: Mojo: Good vibes, Optimist, Techie
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last yr.Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.
Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
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CNN@cnn.com · last yr.More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in the United States in 2025, according to a CNN tally. Details: cnn.it/4daNRCL
We’re hiring a Head of Product! This is the perfect role for a creative, strategic, and experienced product leader who wants to help shape the future of social. Apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
Another Transform conference in the books. They keep raising the bar. Congrats, @samaraj.bsky.social!
Cameo's CEO Steven Galanis told BI that giving workers a $10,000 raise and other perks to return to the office immediately paid off for the company.
Cameo is giving workers a $10,000 raise to return to the office. Its CEO says they're paying more because they're asking for more.
Cameo's CEO Steven Galanis told BI that giving workers a $10,000 raise and other perks to return to the office immediately paid off for the company.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.
What a powerful photograph by Kyle Girllot/NYT. 💔
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2y ago“In Altadena, Calif., on Wednesday, residents and Pasadena Police officers helped evacuate Laverna Sharpe, 101.” Photo credit: Credit...Kyle Grillot for The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
For my friends with employees in LA. I've compiled resources and tips from Chief People Officers on supporting employees impacted by natural disasters into a crowdsourced, open-source resource (below). I'll continue to update it. [Photo credit: AP] docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
The workplace is changing faster than ever, and HR is right in the middle of it all. From AI taking over interviews (hello, "clone wars") to the extinction of some entry-level roles, the next few years are going to be wild. More in my @fastcompany.com piece. 👇🏼 www.fastcompany.com/91248524/7-w...
Earned some extra Lars points tonight by closing out Christmas with a Raclette dinner. 🧀
Today we ran the season finale of the Redefining Work podcast with a guest I've been courting for years - Laszlo Bock. Laszlo is the former SVP People Operations at Google and (IMO) on the Mount Rushmore of modern HR. Here's a preview with on why values alignment is so critical for people leaders.
Flying to NJ this afternoon. I have three hours this evening so solve the mystery of the drones....or at least see one.
Now this is a clever bit of old school social. One of Twitter’s founders (Ev) just launched Mozi - a platform to help you see when your travel overlaps friends you might be able to see while you’re in town. Less social media. More social connection. share.mozi.app/in/0193be05-...
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My 8yo’s Christmas list includes “be an elf for a week”.
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Preparing for a Turkey Trot race. It’s 31 degrees (F) outside. 🧊
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Re-watching The Lost Boys and remembering how good this movie was. That soundtrack holds up! 🤌🏼
