Category: Tools & Technology
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AI can already do much of what fills a fire chief’s week. My first book is about what’s left when it does. The Kindle edition is available for pre-order now, and both the paperback and Kindle editions release October 27.
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When we narrate the conditions, the student never gets to practice seeing them. Fireground Theater is a free browser-based size-up and command training tool: stage smoke, fire, and vapor on twelve built-in scenes or your own four-side photos, walk the 360, and run Better/Worse decision branches on the big screen while you stay in charge…
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You ran a great class. The crew was engaged. The feedback was positive. But when you’re three weeks later half of them can’t recall the main points. This isn’t because they’re terrible students, unmotivated or undisciplined, at least not entirely. Science says this is a memory problem and it’s not just a recent one. The…
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That’s a hard thing to say, and I mean it in the most constructive way possible. Training officers work incredibly hard. The number of hours spent building slide decks, tracking compliance, chasing sign-in sheets, and trying to squeeze 40 hours of content into a department that only gives you 20 is genuinely exhausting. Nobody gets…
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A Smarter Way to Share Your Contact Info Printed business cards have one fatal flaw: they freeze you in time. Roles evolve, phone numbers change, or maybe you change departments, and suddenly that box of cards you ordered last year is quietly working against you. Careers move fast; cardstock doesn’t. And are you remembering to…