- Productive procrastination and parenting - Feb 20, 2025
- Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything - BJ Fogg, PhD (2020) - Nov 12, 2024
- Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management - Nov 6, 2024
- Embracing the shallows - Oct 30, 2024
- How to Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens (2017) - Oct 28, 2024
- Visual book notes: Atomic Habits - Oct 22, 2024
- Tiny chunks - Sep 30, 2024
- Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on - Jan 16, 2024
- Quick thoughts on leadership, impact, and finding my own path - Feb 9, 2018
- Making my to-do list more detailed; process versus outcome - Dec 5, 2015
- What it’s like to work with data - May 21, 2015
- Embracing the fuzziness - May 5, 2015
- Enjoy the prep work - Mar 12, 2015
- Tell the difference between diminishing returns and compounding growth when it comes to investing in skills - Feb 26, 2015
- Different dimensions of scaling up - Feb 24, 2015
- Intentionally interrupting momentum and limiting flow - Feb 20, 2015
- The 5-year experiment: A conversation with my anxious side, and how sharing time might be better than giving money - Feb 6, 2015
- Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects - Jan 22, 2015
- Predictable advice about productivity - Jan 8, 2015
- Morning, afternoon, evening, commute: thinking about what to do when (sketched) - Jan 5, 2015
- When you feel like you're spending a lot of time on low-impact activities - Dec 26, 2014
- Relaxed routines - Dec 25, 2014
- Sketched Book: Just F*cking Ship – Amy Hoy, Alex Hillman - Dec 12, 2014
- Figuring out how my temporary sleep schedule interacts with programming, writing, and drawing - Nov 26, 2014
- Rethinking delegation - Nov 7, 2014
- Reducing my consulting - Oct 5, 2014
- Brock Health and setting up my own health plan - Oct 1, 2014
- Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own - Sep 30, 2014
- Getting ready for my third fiscal year end - Sep 15, 2014
- Figuring out how to deal with sub-optimal times - Sep 11, 2014
- Doing more consulting - Sep 5, 2014
- Nudging the balance toward work - Aug 20, 2014
- Don't worry about your tools in the beginning: Avoiding premature optimization - Jul 24, 2014
- Planning my next little business - Jul 21, 2014
- Realistic expectations, ruthless elimination, and rapid exploration - Jun 16, 2014
- Three productivity tools - May 19, 2014
- On why frugal me is cool with paying other people to do things - May 1, 2014
- Thinking about my TODO keywords - Apr 30, 2014
- How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog - Apr 25, 2014
- How I use Google Chrome custom search engines for quick access - Apr 22, 2014
- Rethinking my time categories: the blurring of business and discretionary activities - Apr 17, 2014
- Reflecting on goal factoring and akrasia - Apr 16, 2014
- Figuring out a fair price for outsourcing work - Apr 2, 2014
- Visual book review: Conscious Millionaire: Grow your business by making a difference (JV Crum III) - Mar 28, 2014
- Thinking about how virtual assistants can help me with learning and writing - Mar 26, 2014
- Contemplating co-op: How can I get to the point of being able to offer a good high school co-op placement? - Mar 19, 2014
- How much does it cost to start with virtual assistance? - Mar 12, 2014
- Delegation update - Mar 5, 2014
- Reflections on infopreneurship - Feb 27, 2014
- Delegation: “How can I trust people?” - Feb 27, 2014
- Don't be afraid of mistakes when delegating - Feb 21, 2014
- What the LEGO Movie and programming are helping me learn about delegation - Feb 18, 2014
- Reflections on learning to be an entrepreneur - Feb 11, 2014
- Thinking about the systems I can put into place to scale up sharing - Feb 6, 2014
- Ramping up delegation - Jan 29, 2014
- Improving and delegating more of my podcasting process - Jan 22, 2014
- Becoming my own client; also, delegation - Jan 20, 2014
- Rock those meeting minutes - Dec 3, 2013
- Simplifying my event commitments; tips for people looking for event sketchnotes - Nov 29, 2013
- Making the most of Standard Time as the days grow shorter - Nov 15, 2013
- High energy and low energy activities - Nov 8, 2013
- When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations - Oct 16, 2013
- What’s on your back burner? - Oct 14, 2013
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched - Oct 7, 2013
- Thinking about hard commitments and soft commitments, and adapting my life accordingly - Sep 20, 2013
- Help me figure out how I should reinvest business profits - Sep 17, 2013
- Sketchnote: Reboot Your Business, Reboot Your Life: Your Future Depends On It – Mitch Joel (Third Tuesday Toronto) - Sep 10, 2013
- How I prepare for professional digital sketchnoting - Sep 10, 2013
- My next delegation experiment: coaching and editing - Aug 21, 2013
- Not about not wasting time - Jul 26, 2013
- Thinking about business cards - Jul 23, 2013
- Business experience report: Setting up payroll and benefits - Jul 19, 2013
- Choosing openness and scale - Jul 18, 2013
- What do I want to do right now? Understanding my algorithm for discretionary time - Jul 11, 2013
- Unstructured time, shaping your wants, and giving yourself permission - Jun 10, 2013
- Thinking about a pro-bono policy; being deliberate about what I do for free, discount, or barter - May 28, 2013
- Visual book review: The Visual Marketing Revolution (Stephanie Diamond) - May 23, 2013
- Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference - Apr 24, 2013
- Visual book review: The Culture Blueprint (Robert Richman) - Apr 9, 2013
- Business experience report: Passing my first annual resolutions - Feb 19, 2013
- Dealing with distractions - Feb 17, 2013
- Accelerating my business learning: setting a goal for a new business every month - Jan 24, 2013
- Helping people learn more about programming - Jan 23, 2013
- In which I do the same thing again and again - Jan 18, 2013
- Business experience report: Amending my T2 corporate tax return - Jan 10, 2013
- Sketching twelve business ideas - Jan 3, 2013
- Experience report: Designing my logo - Dec 28, 2012
- Experience report: Naming my company! - Dec 22, 2012
- Delegation: Being clear about what you value - Dec 20, 2012
- Imagining sketchnotes as a business - Dec 18, 2012
- One to three, that’s all - Dec 14, 2012
- Delegation: How I hire and manage my virtual team - Dec 10, 2012
- Investing time into building sketchnotes as a business - Dec 8, 2012
- Poach my assistants, they’re awesome - Dec 7, 2012
- Delegation update: Scheduling! - Dec 5, 2012
- Business update: Tax update - Dec 4, 2012
- Tweaking my scheduling process for delegation - Nov 21, 2012
- Validating ideas and working with other people - Nov 12, 2012
- Buying time: Experimenting with scheduling - Nov 9, 2012
- Business experience report: Filing taxes! - Nov 2, 2012
- Thinking about wild success - Oct 30, 2012
- Business adventures: Accounting - Oct 28, 2012
- Business card kaizen - Oct 25, 2012
- Planning how to learn about validating business ideas - Oct 23, 2012
- Celebrating my fiscal year end; planning how to improve - Oct 22, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Different Types of Entrepreneurship, Kerri Golden, Allyson Hewitt (MaRS ENT101) - Oct 18, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Small Business Forum [Enterprise Toronto] - Oct 17, 2012
- Sketchnotes: ENT101: Lived It Lecture – Bruce Poon Tip (G Adventures) on Social Enterprise - Oct 3, 2012
- Sketchnotes: ENT101: Finding and Validating Your Idea, Keri Damen - Sep 26, 2012
- Making myself create space - Aug 24, 2012
- Coverage-mapping business models, or thinking of this like a business tasting menu - Aug 22, 2012
- Thinking about how to learn how to manage others - Aug 21, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Marketing in the Round, Gini Dietrich - Jul 26, 2012
- Things I would like to see fixed - Jul 22, 2012
- Trusting myself with making time - Jul 18, 2012
- Experience report: Editing, formatting, and publishing an e-book - Jul 17, 2012
- Thinking about pricing and consulting - Jul 13, 2012
- Helping startups - Jul 12, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Christine Steiger, Christine’s Fitness and Personal Training @ Small Business Network, Toronto Public Library - Jul 10, 2012
- Business notes: Working with a virtual accountant - Jul 6, 2012
- Building my skills and getting ready for the next steps - Jul 4, 2012
- #torontob2b: Sean O’Donovan on managing content for lead generation + Q&A with Ben Harrison and Scott Armstrong - Jun 29, 2012
- Business update: Four months in! - Jun 28, 2012
- Still working on that shift from services to products - Jun 22, 2012
- Making lists of things I do so that I can learn more about delegation - Jun 15, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Sandra Emilia Calderaro, Multilingual Kids; Andres D’Imperio, Creative Design (Small Business Network @ Toronto Reference Library) - Jun 12, 2012
- A perspective on outsourcing - May 25, 2012
- Starting up my delegation experiments again: data entry from receipts - May 24, 2012
- Responsive web, responsive life - May 16, 2012
- Sketchnotes: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future - May 9, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Red Rocket Coffee, Toronto Public Library Small Business Network meetup - May 8, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Building a Social Enterprise – Andrew Jenkins (#torontob2b) - May 3, 2012
- From maker time to learner time - Apr 29, 2012
- Learning about business finances - Apr 27, 2012
- Why I’m temporarily unhireable - Apr 25, 2012
- Learning how to manage time - Apr 23, 2012
- Thinking about the time/money swap - Apr 18, 2012
- Optimizing for weather and other thoughts about self-employed time - Apr 16, 2012
- Getting the hang of making time for business development - Apr 16, 2012
- On why I don’t want to work on a tech startup (yet) - Apr 15, 2012
- Learning how to say no - Apr 13, 2012
- Getting ready for my “The Shy Entrepreneur” talk at the Toronto Reference Library tomorrow (Apr 10 Tue, 6 PM) - Apr 9, 2012
- Sketchnotes: William Mougayar (engagio) at Third Tuesday Toronto - Mar 28, 2012
- Happy monthsary to me! - Mar 21, 2012
- Making space to plan for visual summaries - Mar 15, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event - Mar 13, 2012
- Celebrating rejection and failure - Mar 4, 2012
- Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success - Mar 2, 2012
- This is what five years looks like - Feb 29, 2012
- Experience report: So much for having a virtual bookstore - Feb 28, 2012
- Experience report: Applying for a Harmonized Sales Tax account - Feb 27, 2012
- Experience report: A brief chat with an accountant - Feb 24, 2012
- Experience report: Opening the RBC Small Business eAccount - Feb 23, 2012
- People-centered entrepreneurship - Feb 22, 2012
- Experience report: Renting a business mailbox - Feb 21, 2012
- It’s okay to not know - Feb 20, 2012
- Experience report: Incorporating a federal numbered corporation in Canada - Feb 19, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Small business network meetup with Kristina Chau at the Toronto Reference Library - Feb 14, 2012
- Thinking about how to experiment with business and what I might want to do - Feb 2, 2012
- Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking - Nov 9, 2011
- Starting up my experiments in delegation again; the difference between what I want to do and what I want to see - Sep 3, 2011
- Personal projects - Jun 16, 2011
- Negative productivity and learning from oopses - May 1, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business - Mar 4, 2011
- Thinking about personal random moment studies - Feb 9, 2011
- Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination - Jan 25, 2011
- Three tips for cheerful chores - Jan 12, 2011
- Work on the business from the outside, not in it – Book: Effortless entrepreneur - Jan 10, 2011
- Momentum and holidays - Jan 3, 2011
- Thinking about housework - Dec 31, 2010
- More thoughts on week beginnings: it’s about being proactive - Dec 3, 2010
- Week beginnings - Nov 22, 2010
- Experimenting with mornings - Nov 20, 2010
- Thinking about getting better at writing - Oct 24, 2010
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode - Sep 24, 2010
- Getting past generation-based conversations - Sep 18, 2010
- Tips for entrepreneurs - Sep 17, 2010
- The value of constraints - Sep 3, 2010
- Book: Leading Outside the Lines - Sep 2, 2010
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up - Aug 26, 2010
- Note-taking revisited - Aug 17, 2010
- Long weekend reflections - Aug 5, 2010
- Giving myself permission to delegate again - Jul 23, 2010
- Keeping track of multiple projects - Jul 16, 2010
- Delegation and thinking about what I want to do - Jul 14, 2010
- Notes about business communication - Jun 17, 2010
- Org-toodledo - May 16, 2010
- Picking hobbies that fit together - May 15, 2010
- Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation - May 2, 2010
- Smarter leaders braindump (long, visual) - Apr 28, 2010
- Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor - Apr 28, 2010
- Women and technical leadership - Apr 25, 2010
- From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter - Apr 14, 2010
- Show your work - Apr 10, 2010
- Technical leadership - Apr 7, 2010
- From delegation to automation - Mar 28, 2010
- Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud - Mar 20, 2010
- Leadership going virtual: how we can help managers - Mar 11, 2010
- What I learned from The Art of Marketing - Mar 5, 2010
- From the book bag - Jan 28, 2010
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid - Jan 26, 2010
- Book: On Becoming a Leader - Jan 21, 2010
- What do I delegate, and why? - Dec 28, 2009
- Meeting resolutions - Dec 27, 2009
- How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock - Dec 26, 2009
- Learning about note-taking - Dec 23, 2009
- Copious free time? Carefully protected! - Dec 20, 2009
- Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings - Dec 19, 2009
- One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck - Dec 18, 2009
- Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey - Dec 13, 2009
- Book: Making Work Work - Dec 11, 2009
- Editing feedback on The Shy Connector - Dec 9, 2009
- Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24 - Dec 3, 2009
- Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock - Nov 30, 2009
- Lotus Notes tweaks: Toolbar buttons to file mail - Nov 30, 2009
- Learning how to write - Nov 25, 2009
- Book: Leading Out Loud - Nov 20, 2009
- The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe - Nov 15, 2009
- Reflecting on how I can create value - Nov 14, 2009
- Thinking about how I can make the most of editing; The world is an amazing candy-store of talent - Nov 13, 2009
- Five types of coaching - Nov 7, 2009
- Thoughts from “Remote Presentations That Rock”, changing dynamics - Nov 4, 2009
- Working on not misplacing things - Nov 3, 2009
- Comedy and self-promotion - Nov 1, 2009
- Learning from failure - Oct 30, 2009
- What to do during boring teleconference calls - Oct 30, 2009
- Saving time and money with a chest freezer - Oct 9, 2009
- Find your attention wandering during teleconferences? - Oct 8, 2009
- Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner - Sep 30, 2009
- Swarming talent and manpower outsourcing - Sep 25, 2009
- Brainstorming around Smart Work - Sep 15, 2009
- Process: Update my IBM meeting calendar - Sep 4, 2009
- Thinking of a travel dossier - Jul 1, 2009
- Leadership and Embracing Challenge - Jun 19, 2009
- Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice - Jun 18, 2009
- Thoughts on Toodledo versus Emacs Org - Jun 10, 2009
- Taking the Stage - May 30, 2009
- Purple carrots - May 23, 2009
- Virtual assistance: Process for managing my to-read books - May 16, 2009
- Learning from Gen Y: Help needed! - May 14, 2009
- Delegating weaknesses; experimenting with social secretaries - May 9, 2009
- Getting started with virtual assistance - May 4, 2009
- Tips for getting started with virtual assistance - Apr 30, 2009
- Managing virtual assistants: Imagining more possibilities - Apr 19, 2009
- Young and savvy - Apr 14, 2009
- Nothing quite like Org for Emacs - Apr 6, 2009
- How to do a lot - Mar 24, 2009
- Five reasons why I’m experimenting with outsourcing to virtual assistants - Mar 21, 2009
- Five favorite Firefox add-ons for virtual assistants - Mar 17, 2009
- Reality check! Things are awesome - Mar 1, 2009
- On the other side of the (virtual) desk - Feb 23, 2009
- Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate - Feb 9, 2009
- Being less stupid is harder than being smarter - Jan 9, 2009
- AutoHotkey scripts for switching to windows - Jan 6, 2009
- Notes from the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit - Nov 26, 2008
- Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y - Nov 18, 2008
- Gen Y Perspective: Why Gen Y Won't Stay at Jobs that Suck - Oct 2, 2008
- Gen Y Perspective: Flexibility, Work-Life Balance, and Curb Cuts - Oct 1, 2008
- Knowledge [shared] is power - Sep 30, 2008
- The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel - Sep 17, 2008
- First impressions in an e-mail world - Sep 13, 2008
- Slidecast: New Media, New Generation - Sep 11, 2008
- Kaizen: Moving time around - Jul 31, 2008
- Managing interruptions - Jul 17, 2008
- To dream the impersonal dream - Jul 10, 2008
- Taking book notes - Jul 3, 2008
- Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive - May 26, 2008
- The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work - May 9, 2008
- Generational differences - Mar 7, 2008
- Software as a service, high tech startup :: Morph Code :: Schedule of Events - Feb 14, 2008
- Quick book notes - Jan 8, 2008
- Awesome articles on leadership - Dec 30, 2007
- Procrastination - Dec 30, 2007
- Rethinking - Dec 17, 2007
- Workrave, or why frequent breaks help you go full speed ahead - Nov 30, 2007
- Manage from your calendar, not from your task list - Nov 22, 2007
- Don Marti’s e-mail productivity hack - Apr 13, 2007
- Rotman School of Management: Nexus for non-profits - Oct 5, 2006
- Developing a better sense of time - Oct 4, 2006
- The power of sales - Sep 29, 2006
- Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen - Sep 8, 2006
- How to find great developers - Sep 6, 2006
- More thoughts on what I want to do with my life - Sep 5, 2006
- The great laptop ad campaign - Sep 1, 2006
- Thinking about responsibilities: glass, metal, or rubber? - Aug 31, 2006
- Starting your own business - Aug 26, 2006
- Building a community - Aug 26, 2006
- Win-win-win: The power of asking - Aug 26, 2006
- BarCampEarthToronto: Search engine optimization - Aug 26, 2006
- Livening up your laptop lid: self-adhesive reusable surface - Aug 26, 2006
- Sweeeet! WordPress.org bought ad space on my laptop! - Aug 26, 2006
- Chasing a wild idea - Aug 23, 2006
- Advertise on my laptop! Webpage up - Aug 23, 2006
- Whoa, onto something cool here: advertising on the back of my laptop - Aug 22, 2006
- Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop! - Aug 22, 2006
- MBA elective courses - Aug 21, 2006
- Whoa, maybe I'm onto something here - Aug 21, 2006
- Turning downtime into uptime - Jul 1, 2006
- Business blogging - Jun 17, 2006
- Philippines 2.0 - May 26, 2006
- Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship - May 24, 2006
- Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship - May 24, 2006
- Mesh magic: Tara Hunt - May 16, 2006
- Entrepreneurship - May 3, 2006
- Hacking my productivity - Apr 11, 2006
- Time management for system administrators - Dec 28, 2005
- Solopreneurship and the Tipping Point - Sep 28, 2005
- Personal productivity reading list - Sep 9, 2005
- New purpose for plannerlove.com - Aug 14, 2005
- Side Jobs - Aug 2, 2005
- Custom planner =) - Jul 28, 2005
- Template for Debriefing - Jun 30, 2005
- Introducing the Hipster PDA - Jun 2, 2005
- Office supplies shopaholic - May 30, 2005
- Productivity - May 19, 2005
- Hipster PDA: GTD Tiddly Wiki - May 12, 2005
- New productivity blog: To-Done - May 12, 2005
- Colored index cards - May 10, 2005
- Profiling Your Customer - May 9, 2005
- How I use my Hipster PDA - May 8, 2005
- BBDB tags - May 6, 2005
- Keeping in touch - May 6, 2005
- Sticky notes hack - Apr 20, 2005
- Keeping it Personal - Apr 13, 2005
- PIM love - Apr 6, 2005
- Horrible customer service - Apr 6, 2005
- About procrastination - Apr 5, 2005
- Today: making the pitch - Apr 3, 2005
- Pitching Your Idea (to the supplier of your funds). A free workshop. - Mar 29, 2005
- Edwin's comment on financial literacy - Mar 24, 2005
- Difficult choices - Mar 24, 2005
- Microfinancing - Mar 23, 2005
- How to hire great people - Mar 23, 2005
- Business book: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant - Mar 21, 2005
- Turning my mind to money - Mar 20, 2005
- Business book: You Can Negotiate Anything - Mar 20, 2005
- University of Asia and the Pacific: Business talks - Mar 11, 2005
- Managing my mail - Feb 16, 2005
- Business idea! =) - Jan 28, 2005
- Planner poetry - Jan 15, 2005
- 43Folders: Snapshots of a Dream Productivity App - Jan 6, 2005
