To fully expand on the Ikigai moment I had while helping my kids during the COVID-19 school shutdowns, the following things became clear:

1. What I was doing was employing data management practices to content, and getting a great result. Essentially, it was ETL for content

2. If I use every workplace I've ever worked in, or every story someone has told me about there work, there is a deep need for this work.

3. This work is perfect for me because, not only do I enjoy it immensely, but it satisfied both the logical and creative sides of my brain.

There is a phrase a friend of mine used to say to me all the time when we ran a newspaper together, "Form follows function.  I used to respond to him that "Form Is Function". Turns out, we both were right and this is my work.

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It wasn't until the COVID-19 pandemic, when I stepped away from my career to focus on my children, that both my clariyt and
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Like most of, the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns blindsided our schools, and neither the teachers nor the technologies available were at all prepared for full-time remote learning for elementary schoolers. Though doing their best, the results were choppy and incohesive

After assessing the situation, I decided my best course of action to help my kids succeed with their curriculum, and remote learning in general, was to get in front of it. I requested the Scope and Sequence document for their learnings, along with whatever assets they could give me (documents, images, videos, etc.) and began to gather, organize, hone, supplement, and reorganize all into a single, streamlined, visually intuitive and age-appropriate TKTK for each subject. [website)]

Doing this work was both enjoyable and automatic for me, and somewhere deep in the process, lightning struck⚡!  

This is my Ikigai - Order from chaos. Sense from Nonsense. Information from Data. TKTK from TKTK - it's all about understanding the symphony.

Not only can I see the progression of this work, into larger and more complex systems, in my career trajectory, but I can sense the direction I am heading.

I believe this to be an increasingly valuable and necessary skill, and I can see the pitfalls for businesses, employers, and employees when the complexity is left unattended and the burdens of entropy take over.

This is not only the work I love to do and am good at, and the work I've essentially been doing in every job that I've had, at increasing levels of scope and complexity, but it is also an increasingly valuable skills - as the world is exponentially more complex than it was 50-years ago, and that complexity left unattended leads to all types of burdens of entropy.

I now have a clear direction for the KTKT, and not a single job title that matches? Not only does there not seem to be a job title for this work, but this works seems like it can be applied to any job title that tktk.

While every company I had ever worked for spent a lot of time and money managing their data, they did not on other vital areas such as Content, Processes, Documentation, Training, etc. The result of this lack of care lead to so much wasted time in pointless meetings, counter-productive processes, byzantine file structure that make it impossible to find things, etc.

I feel strongly that it should fall under the umbrella of Business Intelligence, but currently the purview of Business Intelligence is limited to data.

I believe in the future Business Intelligence will expand to include things like process, tktk. tktk.

I have embarked on a 5-year education plan to both refreshed and up-to-date on the skills I have already developed, as well as to learn the skills required on my path. My 10-year goal is to be a Chief Intelligence Officer at either a small to mid-sized business that is nimble and expanding, or at an established household name company that is stuck in a corner and needs a refresh.

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Business intelligence (BI) is a combination of various technologies, tools, and methodologies that gather,  analyze, and transform data into meaningful information. IN short, BI is a process of collecting, analyzing, and presenting data to support business decision-making.