Lars Schmidt 🪩
@larsschmidt.com
💼: Founder, Amplify Talent
✍️: Words: @fastcompany, Redefining HR
🎧: Host, Redefining Work Podcast
✌🏼: Mojo: Good vibes, Optimist, Techie
✍️: 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. 👇🏼
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go.bsky.app/MQDdnkc
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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
June 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
T minus 8 days to the first triathlon of my 50s. 💪
May 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
T minus 8 days to the first triathlon of my 50s. 💪
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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
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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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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...
Apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
April 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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...
Apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Another Transform conference in the books. They keep raising the bar. Congrats, @samaraj.bsky.social!
March 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Another Transform conference in the books. They keep raising the bar. Congrats, @samaraj.bsky.social!
If you’re an underdog I’m rooting for you.
February 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If you’re an underdog I’m rooting for you.
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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
February 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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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
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
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
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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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.
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.
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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.
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.
Running into the weekend like…
January 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Running into the weekend like…
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List of LA area evacuation centers for people and animals secretlosangeles.com/available-re...
January 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
List of LA area evacuation centers for people and animals secretlosangeles.com/available-re...
What a powerful photograph by Kyle Girllot/NYT. 💔
“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...
January 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What a powerful photograph by Kyle Girllot/NYT. 💔
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...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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
December 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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...
www.fastcompany.com/91248524/7-w...
December 26, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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...
www.fastcompany.com/91248524/7-w...
Earned some extra Lars points tonight by closing out Christmas with a Raclette dinner. 🧀
December 26, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Earned some extra Lars points tonight by closing out Christmas with a Raclette dinner. 🧀
Okay, peeps. Tell Santa what you want for Christmas. 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Okay, peeps. Tell Santa what you want for Christmas. 🎄
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.
December 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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.
December 15, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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-...
Less social media. More social connection.
share.mozi.app/in/0193be05-...
Join Lars on Mozi
share.mozi.app
December 13, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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-...
Less social media. More social connection.
share.mozi.app/in/0193be05-...
Feeling festive. 🎅🏻 🪩
December 11, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Feeling festive. 🎅🏻 🪩
Touching base after the holidays.
a man with long hair is standing in front of a brick wall in a castle .
ALT: a man with long hair is standing in front of a brick wall in a castle .
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Touching base after the holidays.