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On This Day...

• 2012: Figuring out how to get better at following up with people in person — Networking is all about following up. I’m much better now at email follow-ups, thanks to a few tools I’ve found. [...]
• 2011: From the feeds: Selling benefits, not features; caramel apples; graphic novels for kids — Elizabeth Sandberg’s story about a savvy pie pumpkin seller reminds me of the advice to sell benefits, not features. She wasn’t [...]
• 2010: Saving team members from RSI — I watched Jen: Ctrl-C, Alt-Tab, click, click, Ctrl-v, click, click, click, click, click, Alt-Tab, Down, Ctrl-C… One by one, [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending November 1, 2009 — Plans from last week: Work From plans: Facilitate idea lab Develop more training material. Slow going; have been working on Idea Lab [...]
• 2009: Comedy and self-promotion — We headed out for taco salads and soup at the Easy Restaurant on King Street after our last class of [...]
• 2009: Connecting in a large organization — In our conversation last Wednesday, Lesley shared how social network analysis has helped her team and the other teams she [...]
• 2009: Halloween —   Our neighbors are really, really into Halloween. This is their front yard. They just loved scaring the heck out of [...]
• 2007: Generating a table of projects and their actions — Here’s how I generated my list of 101 short-term goals. First, I brainstormed the list of goals in an org-mode file. [...]
• 2007: Sharing 101 goals in 1001 days — When Florina Xhabija mentioned how much she liked the way I shared my goals on my website and how each goal was [...]
• 2006: Reports — I’m starting to get the hang of using my Moleskine notebook to keep track of people I need to send information [...]
• 2005: I hate teaching — I can’t believe it. I’m actually _dreading_ class tomorrow, and the conflict is tearing my mind apart. I hate teaching. I [...]
• 2005: Taming the TODO — Originally published in Oct 2005 issue of the Linux Journal. Abstract Buried under a mass of sticky notes? If you worry about [...]
• 2004: ARRRGGGH! Mail blackhole! — I have just discovered that cyrus has been silently dropping my mail since October 29. I don’t understand why it would [...]