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