I recently signed up for an online course that came with a private Facebook group. I was not thrilled about it being on Facebook, but given that I wanted to get the most out of the class begrudgingly created an… Continue Reading →
I just started reading Die Empty by Todd Henry. Here’s a quote from early in the book that ties in with a lot of other things I’ve been working on and thinking about. From page 9: Waiting for permission to… Continue Reading →
I’m not sure where I heard about Everything That Remains: A memoir by the minimalists by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. I don’t even recall requesting it at the library, but one day they told me my request had… Continue Reading →
Just listened to a great podcast by Brendon Buchard titled Why to Quit. It’s about way more than quitting. It’s about making positive changes in our lives and being intentional about making them. I’ve followed Brendon’s work for a while,… Continue Reading →
A year ago I would have never predicted we’d have reached episode #50 already. It was about this time last year that I was getting really clear on the idea that I needed to do a podcast. Now the Untangling… Continue Reading →
Last time I defined several ways to have bad meetings. This post was going to explore one of those “bad ways to have meeting” in detail. Then I realized it would be better to start by defining what a “good… Continue Reading →
I’m thinking about writing a book about technical project meetings at software companies and ways I’ve found to make them better. To see if I have enough to work with I’m going to kick off a series of blog posts… Continue Reading →
One of the things I love about You Are Your Own Gym (YAYOG) is that it doesn’t throw you in the deep end. Yes, some of the initial work outs are hard and it maybe difficult to complete all of… Continue Reading →
Some days it’s the best and the only thing you can do. That’s okay. Just make sure you show up tomorrow too.
Seeing “regards” as the close to an email or letter bugs me. Iit doesn’t make any sense and we wouldn’t say it in regular conversation as some kind of good bye. Some of my other despised favorites: “kind regards” or “warm… Continue Reading →
A project I’ve been following since Tiny Startup Camp is Fizzle.co. They have a podcast I highly recommend and just the other day I saw this good post about “showing up.” It’s made all the difference in my work out program… Continue Reading →
One of the most balanced things I’ve seen written recently about OpenShift in the media was from Red Hat’s Stubbornness Will Keep OpenShift Alive, There won’t be one form of PaaS, but several, each with distinct advantages. PaaS will survive,… Continue Reading →
Thinking of Wilson Miner and his talk When We Build in relation to these links… the idea of needing “space” and “being” versus “effort” and “work.” The Practice of Stillness by Michael Hyatt Embrace The Space by Jonathan Fields
More from The Impact Equation, The more we worked in marketing, the more we did presentations and wrote blog posts and launched projects, the more we recognized that information has no impact on people’s reactions. Instead of information, people react… Continue Reading →
I learned about a great tool called pingdom.com from a fantastic interview and webinar with Yoast. If you run a WordPress blog and want to get the most out of it you owe it to yourself to watch it and… Continue Reading →
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