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Lars Schmidt 🪩

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💼: Founder, Amplify Talent ✍️: Words: @fastcompany, Redefining HR 🎧: Host, Redefining Work Podcast ✌🏼: Mojo: Good vibes, Optimist, Techie

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Nov 18

New to @bsky.app and want to connect with peers in all things people? Here's a great start. 👇🏼

go.bsky.app/MQDdnkc

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joemag @joemag.games · Jun 9

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

Map of LA neighborhoods with a small red circle near the edge of DTLA

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · May 24

T minus 8 days to the first triathlon of my 50s. 💪

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · May 14

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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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · May 8

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · May 3

Despite all my rage… 🎶

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Apr 1

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...

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Mar 28

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Mar 27

Lmao 🤣 savages

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Mar 21

Another Transform conference in the books. They keep raising the bar. Congrats, @samaraj.bsky.social!

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Feb 27

If you’re an underdog I’m rooting for you.

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · Feb 21

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.

www.businessinsider.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · Feb 1

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.

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Jan 10

Running into the weekend like…

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Jan 9

List of LA area evacuation centers for people and animals secretlosangeles.com/available-re...

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Jan 8

What a powerful photograph by Kyle Girllot/NYT. 💔

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Jan 8

“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...

A Pasadena police officer carries an elderly woman to help her evacuate.

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Jan 8

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...

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Jonathan Lyons @heartwoodandsteel.bsky.social · Dec 25

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

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 26

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...

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 26

Earned some extra Lars points tonight by closing out Christmas with a Raclette dinner. 🧀

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 24

Okay, peeps. Tell Santa what you want for Christmas. 🎄

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 16

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.

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 15

Flying to NJ this afternoon. I have three hours this evening so solve the mystery of the drones....or at least see one.

Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 13

This one is not for you. 🙂

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Lars Schmidt 🪩 @larsschmidt.com · Dec 13

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-...

Join Lars on Mozi

share.mozi.app

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