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August 10, 2025 62 mins

#44 – Caitlin Vaillincourt: How to avoid braking chip. The edible ones.

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  • Pros and cons of longer or shorter college terms
  • Played basketball in college and traveled abroad
  • Part of global leadership development program at Avery Dennison and loved the experience.
  • Interned at Frito-Lay reducing potato chip breakage.
  • For now, she is happy with project management but misses working with customers.
  • The 8D quality approach is eight disciplines, not eight things that start with D. https://asq.org/quality-resources/eight-disciplines-8d
  • It seems easy to make a cable tie but many things can go wrong.
  • Bert dares sci-fi writers to write a chapter on how a self-replicating probe replicates itself.
  • She has her PMP – project management professional – certification.
  • Project managers have to influence without authority.
  • Started a new job just as Covid hit. Not easy
  • In the early Covid days, our company sent masks to our colleagues in China.
  • The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is well worth reading about phones and kids.
  • Duo Lingo – some good and some bad.

The Anxious Generation  by Jonathan Haidt  

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Bert’s email - bert.uschold@outlook.com

Hat tip to Joseph McDade for free use of his music "Mirrors".

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