{"id":297,"date":"2013-08-06T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=297"},"modified":"2013-08-06T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:09:25","slug":"too-many-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/08\/06\/too-many-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/2013\/08\/01\/no-big-surprises-in-the-first-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">last post<\/a> I mentioned that an adjustment to my new role as a dean has been adapting to a Microsoft\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_computing\" target=\"_blank\">cloud computing<\/a>\u00a0campus after several years on a Google cloud computing campus. The main component of that transition has been getting used to Outlook mail, which has a lot more settings than Gmail. Additionally, the settings on my desktop client don&#8217;t carry over to the web-based client&#8230;and they are in different places on the dashboards (!). My wife has used Outlook for over 10 years and says that I will learn to love it. Maybe, but for now I prefer Google&#8217;s simpler approach and more streamlined design.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a bit of a pain to select my insurance and health benefits plans, as I was presented with a billion options. Well, maybe not a billion, but I had a <strong>lot<\/strong> more choices than when I signed up for benefits at the U of Minnesota in 1999. At that time there was a low- or no- cost option in each area that served as a default choice, but employees had other choices available for specialized needs. I would have loved such a curated approach here at UW-Parkside. Hopefully I will not have to wade into that sea of possibilities again anytime soon to change my coverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I mentioned that an adjustment to my new role as a dean has been adapting to a Microsoft\u00a0cloud computing\u00a0campus after several years on a Google cloud computing campus. The main component of that transition has been getting used to Outlook mail, which has a lot more settings than Gmail. Additionally, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[10798,22237],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-cloud-computing","tag-role-transition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}