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Jim Ward shared thisIf you’re playing Pickleball like this Pickeball addict, you need eyewear or ya might not be able to see your laptop screen. https://lnkd.in/gg5rTpee discount code JIMMIEWARD for 15% off.
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Jim Ward shared thisI'm having so much fun! Don't wait too long
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Jim Ward shared thisAs a former tech entrepreneur turned full-time pickleball addict (and now a proud USSP + USA Pickleball Ambassador), I’ve learned something important: Seeing the ball matters. A lot. 👀 Somewhere between my 3rd dink rally and realizing I wasn’t actually losing points—I just couldn’t see the spin—I upgraded my “equipment stack.” Enter Pilla Performance Eyewear. Let’s call it what it is: This isn’t just eyewear—it’s data clarity for your eyeballs. ✔️ Better contrast ✔️ Faster ball tracking ✔️ Less squinting into the Arizona sun ✔️ Fewer “that ball was out… I think” moments In business, we talk about removing friction to improve performance. Same concept applies here—remove visual noise, make better decisions, win more points. Also… slight downside: You can no longer blame your losses on “bad lighting.” 😅 If you’re serious about improving your game (especially in that competitive 50+ bracket where margins matter), this is a legit edge. 👉 Use code JIMMIEWARD for 15% off. Because in pickleball—and business—clarity wins. #Pickleball #SportsPerformance #EntrepreneurMindset #ActiveAging #Pilla #GameChanger Sophia Pilla Philip Pilla
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Jim Ward shared thisTime for a mental coffee break. I still watch all you with your careers and being part of a tech community. AI, CRM, ERP, and data. I’m over here having some fun with post career Pickleball project. Join me for the journey. Follow me on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. @notdeadyetpickleball
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Jim Ward shared thisMeanwhile around the water cooler…. Bob didn’t use my codes. Use these links for paddle discounts. Don’t be like Bob. https://lnkd.in/ezDdJsGq
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Jim Ward shared thisAfter building and selling my tech company last year, I realized something important. Entrepreneurs don’t retire well. We need competition, community, and something to keep improving at. For me, that turned out to be pickleball. I started Not Dead Yet Pickleball focused on helping active adults and seniors stay competitive while avoiding injuries. I’m testing paddles, gear, and recovery products and sharing what actually works. If you’re curious about the gear I’m currently using (and the discounts companies gave my audience), they’re all here: 👉 Linktree: https://lnkd.in/es9c8DQA Would love to hear what paddles or gear others are loving right nownotdeadyetpickleball | Instagram, Facebook | Linktreenotdeadyetpickleball | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
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Jim Ward shared thisThese numbers are very telling. Telling me I have competition :-) ....More to come.
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Jim Ward reacted on thisJim Ward reacted on thisToday I'm thrilled to announce Brief - Executive Intelligence, with Larry Augustin and Clint Oram. Early in my career I worked on messaging systems that had to maintain state across millions of concurrent users. The hardest problems were never about the individual messages themselves. They were usually connectivity between messages: the relationships, history, and context that accumulated over time. I carried that lesson through every role since. And at every stage, the same gap stared back at me. We’ve built systems that store huge quantities of artifacts beautifully: emails, documents, meetings, messages, tasks. Up until now, we’ve been unable to build a system that maintains understanding. The gap between what systems record and what people need to know has been the most persistent unsolved problem in enterprise software. For most of my career, I could see the problem. The architecture to address it wasn’t yet ready. Now it is. The architecture is here. Brief is built on a World Model of Work. It's a continuously maintained model of the executive's decisions, commitments, and relationships, running on a persistent knowledge graph that spans email, calendar, documents, chat, and CRM. Language models query the graph; they don't have to remember everything themselves. Brief is always on. Your context compounds across meetings, threads, and decisions instead of resetting every time you open a new chat. The value scales. Your effort does not. The engineering problems are real: resolving entities across messy enterprise data, reasoning about relationships that change over time, and surfacing the right thing without adding noise. These are the problems worth solving. This is the problem I've wanted to work on for most of my career. I'm grateful to finally be working on it, and grateful for the people building it with me.
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Jim Ward liked thisJim Ward liked thisThrilled to announce that I have accepted a systems engineering internship at BAE Systems for the summer of 2026! I'll be working on their six degrees of freedom munitions simulator an incredibly cool and technical challenge that I can't wait to dive into. This is an invaluable opportunity and I'm excited to grow as an engineer. More updates to come! #BAESystemsLEAP #LifeAtBAESystems
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Jim Ward liked thisJim Ward liked thisAfter nearly 11 years, my time with Armanino has come to an end, and it was foretold in a Fortune Cookie of all things. Yes, the image below is a real Fortune that I opened on March 27 while eating dinner with my family.... When I reflect on my time at Armanino, what stands out isn’t just the growth or the milestones (though there have been many). What I take with me are memories and friendships with my former teammates and the clients we had the privilege to serve (too many people to name but you know who you are). The small, everyday interactions, the problem-solving, building, learning, and pushing forward together. Those are the things I’ll carry with me. I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude and pride for what we built together....new offerings, new teams, new offices, new partnerships, and most importantly, meaningful client relationships where we were able to create real value and lasting impact. Helping clients navigate complexity, unlock growth, and move their businesses forward, together, is what made the work so rewarding. This experience has shaped me in ways I couldn’t have imagined... not just as a professional, but as a leader and as a person. The lessons, friendships, and relationships both internal and with clients will stay with me for life. As for what’s next, I am energized by the possibilities ahead. I have always been excited by the next challenge ahead, and I am ready for it. To everyone I’ve had the privilege of working with and to the clients who trusted us to be part of your journey, thank you. For your partnership, your trust, and the opportunity to create something meaningful together. It has meant more than I can fully express. I’ll be cheering you on every step of the way. I tell my kids every day to "kick ass and have fun". I say the same to you. More soon...... Don't hesitate to reach out anytime. If we're connected here, I am always up to make something positive happen together. #positiveimpact #nextchapter #readyforachallenge #fortunecookiesareforreal
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Jim Ward liked thisJim Ward liked thisFour years ago I joined SugarCRM not knowing the journey I'd embark on as a marketer nor as an individual. What I'm taking with me is harder to quantify than a job title.. it's the people, the work ethic, the annual SKO dance floors. It's a lot of growth I could not have anticipated, and I'm grateful for every bit of it. Now, I'm thrilled to evolve from building brand stories to protecting them by joining Doppel as their newest Senior Field Marketing Associate! Excited to be a part of a company whose entire mission is making sure you can trust what you see, starting with me in the Southeast. 🤠
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