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On This Day...

• 2011: Quantified Awesome: 116 web resources for Quantified Self — I like reading about other people’s adventures in self-tracking and experimentation. It’s a great way to pick up ideas and [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending November 26, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [-] Drupal project: Polish programs, work on events (removed events from scope) [...]
• 2009: Figuring things out on the fly — Dark blazers are a newbie facilitator’s friend. No one could see me perspire as I wondered what to do. My [...]
• 2008: Notes from conversations: Conscious competence — Politeness I’m going to start off with a story about embarrassing myself, because it’s something worth thinking about, I learned a [...]
• 2007: Optimizing your action loop — If you want to be radically more effective at doing things, get better at deciding what to do. Few things are [...]
• 2007: Add joy to your job title — Over at Matt’s Idea Blog, Matthew Cornell has listed some of the coolest job titles he’s seen. Not only that, he [...]
• 2007: Learning how to tell stories — Thanks to Michael Nielsen and Jennifer Dodd for highly recommending Made to Stick, a great book about storytelling. It arrived at [...]
• 2007: Lost some comments in the shuffle — One of the downsides of posting code on your blog is that you tend to confuse your blogging software. In this [...]
• 2007: I’m too lazy not to program — Yesterday, I imported five years of blog posts into WordPress through RSS. This would have been _painful_ if I wasn’t comfortable [...]
• 2006: There are some things for which Google has no answer — Part of growing up, I guess, is learning how to deal with questions yourself. Be gentle with me for the next few [...]
• 2005: I could’ve danced all night… — The final tango meeting for the term was a party! Free for members and CAD 3 for guests, it was a [...]