- Working with the flow of ideas - Dec 30, 2023 - speechtotext, metaphor, life, blogging, writing, kaizen
- Reflecting on wasted effort - Dec 20, 2021 - kaizen
- Using some babysitting time for personal projects - Apr 22, 2019 - geek, kaizen
- Adjusting to less focused time - Oct 5, 2018 - kaizen, learning, parenting
- Back to biking - Jun 17, 2018 - kaizen, life
- Thinking about more reflection and sharing - Jun 15, 2018 - kaizen, parenting, reflection
- Babysitting experiment #2: the baker - May 15, 2018 - kaizen, parenting
- Experience report: getting a babysitter from an agency - May 8, 2018 - kaizen, parenting
- Playground kaizen - Apr 27, 2018 - kaizen, parenting, play
- Dealing with preoccupation and a slow tempo - Apr 18, 2018 - kaizen, time
- Travel kaizen - Mar 28, 2018 - kaizen, travel
- Tickling my brain - Mar 25, 2018 - kaizen, learning, parenting
- Dealing with thought fragmentation, reducing mental waste - Mar 17, 2018 - kaizen, parenting
- What do I want to think through when writing on my phone? - Jan 20, 2017 - kaizen, writing
- How can we prepare for W-‘s return to work? - Jan 15, 2017 - kaizen, life, parenting
- Oops, forgot my library card - Jan 21, 2016 - kaizen
- Exploring neighbourhood libraries and other notes from the Toronto Public Library Hackathon - Nov 16, 2015 - visualization, development, geek, kaizen
- Leaning into absent-mindedness - May 28, 2015 - kaizen, research
- Visual book notes: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande - Mar 9, 2015 - kaizen, visual-book-notes
- Improving how I organize notes with Org Mode - Dec 3, 2014 - emacs, kaizen, org
- Figuring out how my temporary sleep schedule interacts with programming, writing, and drawing - Nov 26, 2014 - kaizen, productivity
- Planning little improvements - Nov 10, 2014 - kaizen, learning, plans
- Avoiding spoilage with bulk cooking - Oct 3, 2014 - cooking, kaizen
- Routines - Aug 28, 2014 - kaizen
- Tweaking the way I write - Aug 26, 2014 - kaizen, writing
- Teaching myself to prefer what's good for me - Jul 30, 2014 - kaizen
- Mental hacks for slower speech - May 20, 2014 - communication, kaizen, speaking
- Small talk tweaks - May 13, 2014 - connecting, kaizen
- Digging into my limiting factors when it comes to interviewing people for podcasts - Apr 10, 2014 - kaizen, podcasting
- What do I want to learn about learning? - Oct 21, 2013 - kaizen, learning
- Using Emacs to figure out where I need to improve in order to type faster - Sep 30, 2013 - emacs, geek, kaizen
- Thinking about how to type faster than 110wpm - Aug 19, 2013 - kaizen
- Thinking about how I can use Evernote more effectively - Aug 14, 2013 - kaizen, notetaking
- How I learn: 16 things I’ve learned about mindset and process - Jul 22, 2013 - kaizen, learning, tips
- Thinking about small talk at networking events - Jun 27, 2013 - connecting, kaizen
- Turn your unfair advantages into more unfair advantages - Jun 7, 2013 - kaizen
- Good influences in partnerships - Jun 2, 2013 - family, kaizen, life
- Stepping sideways into Alternate Universe Sacha - May 13, 2013 - family, kaizen, life, sketches
- Learning how to deal with mild panic - May 1, 2013 - kaizen, reflection
- Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference - Apr 24, 2013 - business, drawing, kaizen
- Practice Perfect: Calling your shots - Apr 18, 2013 - kaizen, learning, tips
- Things I’m learning about sharing other people’s knowledge, or why you should show me what you’ve been meaning to teach others - Apr 12, 2013 - kaizen, learning, video
- Understanding my procrastination - Apr 4, 2013 - kaizen, reflection
- Analyzing my London trip decisions: What worked well? What can I improve? - Apr 3, 2013 - kaizen, travel
- Debugging my brain: typos (write-os?) in my sketchnotes - Mar 24, 2013 - drawing, kaizen
- The Sketchnote Challenge: Those Algorithms That Govern Our Lives (Kevin Slavin) - Mar 17, 2013 - kaizen, sketchnotes
- Taking advantage of a bad cold - Mar 8, 2013 - kaizen, life
- Things I learned from the GenArtHackParty - Feb 21, 2013 - geek, kaizen
- Reflections on sketchnoting TEDxOCADU - Jan 31, 2013 - drawing, kaizen, process
- An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that’s a good thing - Jan 22, 2013 - decision, kaizen, life
- Understanding how I’m changing as a speaker - Dec 21, 2012 - kaizen, speaking
- Delegation: Being clear about what you value - Dec 20, 2012 - delegation, kaizen, reflection
- Tips for growing as a sketchnoter - Dec 17, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, sketchnotes
- Delegation: How I hire and manage my virtual team - Dec 10, 2012 - delegation, kaizen, management
- Sketchnote reflection: conference intensity - Dec 4, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, reflection
- Business card kaizen - Oct 25, 2012 - business, connecting, kaizen
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations - Aug 29, 2012 - connecting, kaizen, process, sketches
- Thinking about a visual process library - Aug 27, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, process, sketches
- 80% and tweaking - Jul 25, 2012 - kaizen
- Working on getting better at calendars - Jun 6, 2012 - geek, kaizen
- Quantified Awesome: Blogging, WPM, and the speed of reflection - May 28, 2012 - kaizen, quantified, reflection, writing
- Pizza pizza pizza pizza - May 14, 2012 - cooking, kaizen, life
- Six ways I’m learning how to get better at drawing sketchnotes - Mar 26, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, learning, tips
- Tip: Use visibility to motivate new habits - Jan 11, 2012 - kaizen, life, tips
- Thinking about reviewing archives - Jan 5, 2012 - geek, kaizen
- CSS theming, magnification, and foot pedals - Jan 3, 2012 - development, geek, kaizen
- Figuring out my CSS workflow - Dec 31, 2011 - development, geek, kaizen, work
- Learning from CSS tweaking - Dec 30, 2011 - development, kaizen
- Reducing clutter in the kitchen - Dec 28, 2011 - kaizen, life, organization
- Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O - Dec 20, 2011 - development, geek, kaizen, rails, work
- Growing as a developer: Automated tests - Dec 14, 2011 - development, kaizen, work
- Massages, physical feedback, and behaviour modification - Nov 16, 2011 - kaizen, life
- Quantified Awesome: A place for everything, and everything in its place - Nov 14, 2011 - geek, kaizen, life, quantified
- Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking - Nov 9, 2011 - cooking, kaizen, life, productivity
- Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal - Oct 31, 2011 - kaizen, life, quantified
- Practising drawing: variations on a theme - Oct 26, 2011 - drawing, kaizen, sketches
- Figuring out how to plan for a month - Oct 21, 2011 - kaizen, life, planning
- Getting better at working at the office - Sep 28, 2011 - kaizen, work
- Update on typing: Added AutoCorrect hotkey script, now clocking in at 118wpm - Sep 20, 2011 - kaizen
- Thinking about improving our freezer use - Sep 5, 2011 - cooking, kaizen
- Notes on transcription with and without a foot pedal - Sep 2, 2011 - analysis, decision, kaizen, review
- Batch cooking - Aug 30, 2011 - cooking, kaizen
- Thinking about outsourcing transcription or doing it myself - Aug 22, 2011 - analysis, decision, kaizen, speaking
- Lessons learned from project M - Aug 10, 2011 - drupal, ibm, kaizen, review, work
- Thinking about activities to share with others - Jul 9, 2011 - analysis, kaizen, life, reflection
- Writing your way past “What have I been doing with my life?” - Jun 26, 2011 - blogging, kaizen, life, reflection, writing
- Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values - Jun 24, 2011 - analysis, decision, kaizen
- Personal projects - Jun 16, 2011 - decision, kaizen, life, productivity
- Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens - Jun 14, 2011 - kaizen, sketches
- Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk) - Jun 13, 2011 - decision, geek, kaizen, review
- Getting things ready for the next week: cooking and gardening - Jun 12, 2011 - gardening, kaizen
- Thinking about our development practices - Jun 8, 2011 - development, geek, kaizen
- Decision review: calendars, development, standing desks, toe shoes, Kindle, bike, CSA, Autodesk Sketchbook, blogging - Jun 4, 2011 - decision, kaizen, review
- Dealing with a bad calendar week - May 29, 2011 - geek, kaizen, life
- Experimenting with standing desks - May 24, 2011 - geek, kaizen, life
- Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes - May 20, 2011 - geek, kaizen, travel
- Ordered a Kindle with free 3G - May 18, 2011 - geek, kaizen, travel
- Walking outside my comfort zone – bike? push/kick scooter? - May 17, 2011 - analysis, decision, kaizen, travel
- First foray into community-supported agriculture - May 13, 2011 - cooking, kaizen, life
- Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference - Apr 28, 2011 - kaizen, presentation, sketches, speaking
- Making better use of travel time - Apr 19, 2011 - kaizen, life, time, travel
- Three cat life - Apr 15, 2011 - cat, kaizen, life
- Decision trees and self-challenges: how my laptop’s recent battery failure is a great excuse to think - Mar 17, 2011 - analysis, decision, geek, kaizen
- Thinking about a developer setup template - Mar 16, 2011 - geek, ibm, kaizen, work
- Kaizen: Thinking about presentations - Feb 22, 2011 - kaizen, life, speaking
- Decision review: Limiting my blog to one post a day - Feb 19, 2011 - blogging, kaizen, reflection, sketches, writing
- Imagine success for social media - Feb 16, 2011 - blogging, connecting, kaizen, story, web2.0, writing
- On friendship and getting better at it - Feb 13, 2011 - kaizen, life, reflection
- Disagreement and the road to trusting yourself - Feb 6, 2011 - kaizen, life
- Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination - Jan 25, 2011 - kaizen, life, productivity
- Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway - Dec 12, 2010 - drawing, kaizen, sketches
- Experimenting with mornings - Nov 20, 2010 - kaizen, life, productivity
- Thinking about getting better at writing - Oct 24, 2010 - blogging, delegation, kaizen, writing
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode - Sep 24, 2010 - emacs, kaizen, notetaking, org, productivity
- Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review - Sep 11, 2010 - emacs, kaizen, org, process
- Note-taking revisited - Aug 17, 2010 - connecting, kaizen, notetaking, productivity
- Electronic ears: Using Performous to learn how to sing - Jul 28, 2010 - kaizen, life, linux
- Travel kaizen and the meaning of life - May 31, 2010 - career, kaizen, purpose, reflection, travel
- Getting the hang of gardening - May 24, 2010 - gardening, kaizen
- Presented Remote Presentations That Rock v2 for the Best of TLE 2009 series - May 21, 2010 - kaizen, presentation, speaking
- May 2010: Remember and declutter - May 8, 2010 - kaizen, life
- Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation - May 2, 2010 - braindump, kaizen, leadership
- Forgot my keys; automating memory - Apr 23, 2010 - kaizen
- WordPress admin screen tweaks - Apr 3, 2010 - blogging, geek, kaizen, wordpress
- Reflections on PresentationCampToronto - Mar 25, 2010 - kaizen, speaking
- Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter - Mar 23, 2010 - kaizen, presentation, sketches, speaking
- Book recommendations for new grads - Mar 17, 2010 - career, kaizen, learning, reading
- Kitchen kaizen - Mar 13, 2010 - cooking, kaizen, life
- Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice - Mar 4, 2010 - kaizen, presentation, speaking, tips
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots - Feb 25, 2010 - connecting, ibm, kaizen, reflection
- Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector - Feb 15, 2010 - kaizen, presentation, speaking
- Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock - Feb 3, 2010 - ibm, kaizen, learning, presentation, speaking, work
- Personal knowledge management, morgue files, capture systems - Jan 9, 2010 - pkm, kaizen, notetaking, process
- On the practice of a weekly review - Jan 1, 2010 - blogging, kaizen, process, reflection
- Meeting resolutions - Dec 27, 2009 - kaizen, productivity, work
- Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement - Dec 24, 2009 - happy, kaizen, work
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations - Dec 10, 2009 - connecting, ibm, kaizen, passion, purpose, work
- Editing feedback on The Shy Connector - Dec 9, 2009 - delegation, kaizen, writing
- Living in the sweet spot - Dec 1, 2009 - kaizen, life, reflection, sketches
- Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston - Nov 24, 2009 - ibm, kaizen, reflection
- Working on not misplacing things - Nov 3, 2009 - kaizen, productivity
- Learning from failure - Oct 30, 2009 - kaizen, life, productivity
- What to do during boring teleconference calls - Oct 30, 2009 - kaizen, productivity
- Speaking of routines: life is cyclic - Oct 20, 2009 - kaizen, life
- Routines - Oct 19, 2009 - kaizen, life
- Reflecting on how to prepare for workshops - Jul 3, 2009 - kaizen, work
- Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice - Jun 18, 2009 - kaizen, leadership, presentation, speaking
- Preventive maintenance and the Goldtouch Go! keyboard - Jun 7, 2009 - geek, kaizen, life
- Reflecting on public speaking and my talk management system - Apr 15, 2009 - kaizen, presentation, speaking
- Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project - Apr 2, 2009 - drupal, kaizen
- More thoughts on calendar management - Mar 31, 2009 - kaizen
- Quick tips for making the most of Sametime Unyte - Mar 30, 2009 - kaizen, presentation, speaking
- From reactive to proactive, from inboxes to goals; thinking about the big picture - Mar 27, 2009 - kaizen, life, passion, reflection
- Five reasons why I’m experimenting with outsourcing to virtual assistants - Mar 21, 2009 - kaizen, management
- Improving my talk management process - Mar 18, 2009 - happy, kaizen, presentation, speaking
- Five favorite Firefox add-ons for virtual assistants - Mar 17, 2009 - kaizen, productivity
- Still looking for an awesome calendar management system - Mar 17, 2009 - kaizen
- Tungle for the win: kaizen and calendar management - Mar 12, 2009 - kaizen
- Okay, even more impressed by Timebridge - Mar 10, 2009 - kaizen
- VA Days: Rethinking web search and virtual assistance - Feb 28, 2009 - kaizen
- VA Days: Refining web research process for virtual assistance - Feb 28, 2009 - kaizen
- On the other side of the (virtual) desk - Feb 23, 2009 - kaizen, management
- What does wild success look like? Kaizen and life; tweaking mornings - Feb 21, 2009 - kaizen, life, reflection
- Scaffolds and structures - Feb 20, 2009 - development, drupal, kaizen
- Reflections on presentation; looking for a coach - Feb 19, 2009 - kaizen, speaking
- Recording of Enterprise 2.0 and Knowledge Management lecture - Feb 11, 2009 - enterprise2.0, kaizen, presentation, talk
- Book workflow - Feb 11, 2009 - kaizen
- Kaizen: unsqueaking - Feb 3, 2009 - kaizen, life, reflection
- Braindump of conference networking tips - Jan 27, 2009 - conference, connecting, kaizen
- Being less stupid is harder than being smarter - Jan 9, 2009 - kaizen, life, productivity, reflection
- Dealing with weaknesses: calendars - Jan 9, 2009 - kaizen, life
- AutoHotkey scripts for switching to windows - Jan 6, 2009 - geek, kaizen, productivity
- Why automation matters to me - Dec 11, 2008 - geek, kaizen
- Deploying to servers - Aug 8, 2008 - development, kaizen
- Kaizen: Moving time around - Jul 31, 2008 - kaizen, life, productivity, time
- Development kaizen: Deployment and testing - Jul 29, 2008 - drupal, kaizen
- Kaizen: What would make our Drupal lives better? - Jul 28, 2008 - drupal, kaizen
- Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive - May 26, 2008 - kaizen, management
- Kaizen Presentations: Web 2.0 and the University - May 7, 2008 - kaizen, presentation, talk
- Restructuring Presentations: The Leadership Journey - Apr 29, 2008 - communication, kaizen, presentation
- TLE 2008: I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us - Apr 11, 2008 - conference, kaizen, presentation
- Optimizing my day - Mar 25, 2008 - kaizen
- Kaizen: meetings - Nov 12, 2007 - kaizen
- Kaizen: Tweaking my schedule - Nov 9, 2007 - kaizen
- Best laid plans of mice and men - Oct 20, 2007 - kaizen
- Learning - Oct 17, 2007 - kaizen
