- Visualizing the balance of speaking in my French conversations with tutors - Oct 14, 2026 - french, python, learning, visualization
- Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time - Oct 7, 2026 - audio, speech-recognition, emacs, learning, visualization
- Looking at landscapes; art and iteration - Feb 5, 2025 - art, supernote, learning, education
- How to Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens (2017) - Oct 28, 2024 - visual-book-notes, writing, pkm, productivity, learning
- Working with the flow of ideas - Dec 30, 2023 - speechtotext, metaphor, life, blogging, writing, kaizen
- Revisiting stenography and Twiddling - Jan 24, 2023 - learning, steno, twiddler, geek
- Reflecting on wasted effort - Dec 20, 2021 - kaizen
- Using some babysitting time for personal projects - Apr 22, 2019 - geek, kaizen
- How A- is helping me learn how to read better - Apr 17, 2019 - parenting, reading
- Adjusting to less focused time - Oct 5, 2018 - kaizen, learning, parenting
- Textbook Thursday: elaboration, board games, tech - Jul 13, 2018 - geek, 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
- Quick thoughts on leadership, impact, and finding my own path - Feb 9, 2018 - business, leadership, learning, purpose, reflection
- 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
- Thinking about problem-solving and sequencing - Jun 11, 2015 - development, learning
- Thinking about changing interests - Jun 3, 2015 - learning, reflection
- Leaning into absent-mindedness - May 28, 2015 - kaizen, research
- Mapping knowledge - May 19, 2015 - pkm, learning
- The balance between doing and improving – evaluating yak-shaving - Mar 26, 2015 - emacs, learning
- The imperfect fungibility of time: thinking about how to use money to accelerate learning - Mar 20, 2015 - learning
- How can I make better use of my index card drawing process? - Mar 16, 2015 - drawing, learning
- Visual book notes: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande - Mar 9, 2015 - kaizen, visual-book-notes
- Shrinking my learn-do-share-review cycle - Mar 3, 2015 - learning, sharing
- Tell the difference between diminishing returns and compounding growth when it comes to investing in skills - Feb 26, 2015 - learning, productivity
- Break down what people mean so that you can learn from the specifics - Feb 19, 2015 - learning
- Learning from people - Feb 17, 2015 - connecting, learning
- Learning from artists: making studies of ideas - Feb 2, 2015 - drawing, learning, writing
- Read business books more effectively through application, visualization, or reviews - Jan 29, 2015 - learning, reading
- Deliberately making sense - Jan 13, 2015 - pkm, learning, writing
- Learning a little more quickly - Jan 1, 2015 - learning
- Figuring out what to read by figuring out what you want to become or make or do - Dec 19, 2014 - learning, plans, reading, writing
- Learning more effectively by exploring various unknowns - Dec 17, 2014 - learning
- Connecting to previous thoughts and covering more ground - Dec 16, 2014 - pkm, learning
- 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
- Keeping a process journal - Nov 21, 2014 - learning, writing
- My current book workflow - Nov 17, 2014 - reading
- Planning little improvements - Nov 10, 2014 - kaizen, learning, plans
- Coming to terms with online courses - Oct 24, 2014 - learning
- Becoming a better reader - Oct 7, 2014 - reading
- Avoiding spoilage with bulk cooking - Oct 3, 2014 - cooking, kaizen
- Learning from the Alternative Uses Task - Sep 19, 2014 - learning
- Learning with the end in mind - Sep 2, 2014 - learning
- Routines - Aug 28, 2014 - kaizen
- Tweaking the way I write - Aug 26, 2014 - kaizen, writing
- Drawing update - Aug 18, 2014 - cat, learning
- Teaching myself to prefer what's good for me - Jul 30, 2014 - kaizen
- Developing opinions - Jul 4, 2014 - decision, learning, reflection
- I notice I have cyclic interests - Jun 24, 2014 - learning
- 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
- Describing my personal knowledge management routines with Harold Jarche's Seek-Sense-Share framework - Mar 11, 2014 - pkm, learning, podcast, process, sharing
- Good enough, good, awesome: Thinking about what I want to get to - Mar 10, 2014 - learning, plans
- Test-driven learning - Feb 17, 2014 - learning
- Focus and fluency: learning when you're a fox - Feb 12, 2014 - learning, tips
- More tips for self-directed learning: deliberate practice - Feb 10, 2014 - learning, tips
- Learning from people - Jan 31, 2014 - connecting, learning, mentoring
- Getting better at learning on my own - Jan 30, 2014 - learning
- Thinking about my reading - Jan 23, 2014 - reading
- How to read blogs efficiently with a feed reader - Jan 21, 2014 - learning, reading, tips
- Adapt to your learning style - Jan 14, 2014 - learning, tips
- Planning my learning; It's okay to learn in a spiral - Jan 7, 2014 - learning, plans
- Learning from online role models - Dec 31, 2013 - learning, tips
- Read more effectively by asking yourself questions while you read - Dec 17, 2013 - learning, tips
- Check out these getting started guides – suggest more! - Dec 11, 2013 - learning, sketches, tips
- Make the most of a day of lectures - Dec 10, 2013 - learning, tips
- Think about your delta: increasing the difference you want to make - Dec 4, 2013 - learning, plans
- How I review my notes - Nov 26, 2013 - learning, tips
- Finding the right balance between thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing - Nov 19, 2013 - learning
- Thinking about how to get better at asking questions - Nov 12, 2013 - learning
- Mapping what I’m learning - Nov 5, 2013 - pkm, drawing, learning
- Mindmapping chat with Billy Waters (@vitaminsludge) - Oct 29, 2013 - notetaking, podcast
- Visual book review: How to make a complete map of every thought you think (Lion Kimbro) - Oct 23, 2013 - pkm, learning, visual-book-notes
- What do I want to learn about learning? - Oct 21, 2013 - kaizen, learning
- Learning more about illustrating my blog posts - Oct 15, 2013 - drawing, learning
- Test what you know by sharing - Oct 9, 2013 - blogging, learning, tips
- Using Emacs to figure out where I need to improve in order to type faster - Sep 30, 2013 - emacs, geek, kaizen
- Growing authority - Sep 27, 2013 - learning, planning
- The learning machine: How I turn what I learn into blog posts - Sep 25, 2013 - learning, writing
- What keeps you from taking notes? 9 excuses and how to get past them - Sep 6, 2013 - learning, notetaking, tips
- 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
- Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats - Jul 29, 2013 - connecting, drawing, learning, sketchnotes
- How I learn: 16 things I’ve learned about mindset and process - Jul 22, 2013 - kaizen, learning, tips
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle of learning - Jul 16, 2013 - japanese, learning
- Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast (Josh Kaufman) - Jul 15, 2013 - blogging, learning, tips, visual-book-notes
- Thinking about small talk at networking events - Jun 27, 2013 - connecting, kaizen
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1! - Jun 20, 2013 - blogging, connecting, learning
- Turn your unfair advantages into more unfair advantages - Jun 7, 2013 - kaizen
- Good influences in partnerships - Jun 2, 2013 - family, kaizen, life
- Learning update May 2013 - May 14, 2013 - learning
- 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
- Why and how I’m (re)learning Japanese - Apr 26, 2013 - japanese, learning
- 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
- How I read books and do visual book reviews - Apr 10, 2013 - reading
- 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
- What I’m learning from the sketchnote index - Feb 8, 2013 - learning
- Reflections on sketchnoting TEDxOCADU - Jan 31, 2013 - drawing, kaizen, process
- Planning my code/development learning - Jan 25, 2013 - development, experiment, geek, learning
- An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that’s a good thing - Jan 22, 2013 - decision, kaizen, life
- In which I do the same thing again and again - Jan 18, 2013 - business, learning
- 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
- Discovering the MaRS #startupbookclubTO: The $100 Startup - Nov 6, 2012 - reading
- Coming up with a three-word life philosophy - Nov 4, 2012 - learning, reflection, sketches
- Business card kaizen - Oct 25, 2012 - business, connecting, kaizen
- A long reflection on getting more out of each hour - Oct 14, 2012 - learning, reflection
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations - Aug 29, 2012 - connecting, kaizen, process, sketches
- Process: Reading nonfiction books - Aug 28, 2012 - process, reading, sketches
- Thinking about a visual process library - Aug 27, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, process, sketches
- Breaking down something that’s intimidating to learn - Jul 30, 2012 - learning
- 80% and tweaking - Jul 25, 2012 - kaizen
- Learning from the basics - Jul 23, 2012 - learning
- Working on getting better at calendars - Jun 6, 2012 - geek, kaizen
- Scanning my notebooks - May 30, 2012 - notetaking
- 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
- Learning more about what I want to learn - May 1, 2012 - learning, planning
- From maker time to learner time - Apr 29, 2012 - business, learning, life, planning, time
- Learning how to say no - Apr 13, 2012 - business, learning
- Six ways I’m learning how to get better at drawing sketchnotes - Mar 26, 2012 - drawing, kaizen, learning, tips
- Visual book review: Enough, by Patrick Rhone - Mar 22, 2012 - book, life, reading, reflection, visual, visual-book-notes
- Visual book review: Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument - Mar 20, 2012 - book, communication, reading, visual, visual-book-notes
- What I want from visual notetaking; imagining wild success - Mar 19, 2012 - notetaking, planning, sketches
- Visual book notes: How to Read a Book - Mar 6, 2012 - pkm, book, reading, sketchnotes, visual-book-notes
- Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success - Mar 2, 2012 - book, business, entrepreneurship, reading, sketchnotes, visual, visual-book-notes
- Visual book notes: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries - Feb 29, 2012 - book, reading, visual, visual-book-notes
- Five things I’ve learned from five awesome years at IBM - Feb 14, 2012 - career, ibm, learning, tips, work
- Helping kids build their vocabularies: spell-offs and bedtime stories - Feb 8, 2012 - learning, life
- Learning research skills - Feb 6, 2012 - learning
- What to do when you have a hard time listening to lectures: adapting as a visual learner - Feb 4, 2012 - learning
- 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
- Learning plans and time budgets: packing things into 2012 - Dec 15, 2011 - analysis, learning, planning, quantified, time
- Growing as a developer: Automated tests - Dec 14, 2011 - development, kaizen, work
- Learning how to model with Google Sketchup - Nov 20, 2011 - geek, learning
- 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
- Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history - Sep 16, 2011 - learning, life, sketches, teaching
- 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
- Kids’ cartoons and learning piano - Aug 20, 2011 - piano, learning, life
- Lessons learned from project M - Aug 10, 2011 - drupal, ibm, kaizen, review, work
- Piano lesson week 2 - Jul 28, 2011 - piano, learning
- Starting piano again - Jul 22, 2011 - piano, learning
- Thinking about activities to share with others - Jul 9, 2011 - analysis, kaizen, life, reflection
- Planning for summer - Jul 7, 2011 - education, life, planning
- Meaning and acknowledgement - Jun 29, 2011 - book, education, learning, teaching
- Learning from the speeches of grade seven students - Jun 27, 2011 - learning, speaking
- 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
- Presentation draft: Mentoring on the Network - May 21, 2011 - mentoring, presentation, speaking
- 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
- Cattus Petasatus - May 14, 2011 - learning
- First foray into community-supported agriculture - May 13, 2011 - cooking, kaizen, life
- Condensing requirements into use cases - May 8, 2011 - ibm, learning, work
- Thoughts from marriage: Learning together - May 2, 2011 - learning, life
- Study group: Flashcards and the Leitner method - Apr 29, 2011 - education, geek, learning, life, teaching
- Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference - Apr 28, 2011 - kaizen, presentation, sketches, speaking
- The enemy of your enemy is your friend: mnemonics and negative integers - Apr 27, 2011 - education, learning, life, teaching
- Writing macrons in Linux for Latin pronunciation - Apr 25, 2011 - emacs, geek, learning
- Making better use of travel time - Apr 19, 2011 - kaizen, life, time, travel
- Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness - Apr 17, 2011 - learning, life, teaching
- Three cat life - Apr 15, 2011 - cat, kaizen, life
- Math study group: Positive and negative numbers - Apr 12, 2011 - education, learning, life, teaching
- On developing a reputation for project work - Apr 11, 2011 - ibm, mentoring, work
- Spousonomics: Using economics to master love, marriage, and dirty dishes - Apr 7, 2011 - analysis, book, love, reading, research
- Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources - Apr 6, 2011 - learning, teaching
- Helping kids learn algebra - Apr 5, 2011 - learning, life, teaching
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers) - Apr 4, 2011 - ibm, learning, presentation, tips, work
- Quid est nōmen tuum? Nōmen meum est “Sacha” - Mar 31, 2011 - learning
- 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
- Math and energy - Mar 11, 2011 - learning, life, teaching
- 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
- Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters - Feb 18, 2011 - book, reading, writing
- Imagine success for social media - Feb 16, 2011 - blogging, connecting, kaizen, story, web2.0, writing
- From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to learning and building a reputation along the way - Feb 16, 2011 - blogging, learning
- On friendship and getting better at it - Feb 13, 2011 - kaizen, life, reflection
- Working on estimates - Feb 7, 2011 - geek, ibm, learning
- 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
- Work on the business from the outside, not in it – Book: Effortless entrepreneur - Jan 10, 2011 - book, entrepreneurship, reading
- Moving my book notes online - Jan 6, 2011 - emacs, reading
- Marking up books - Jan 5, 2011 - book, reading
- Reflections on mentoring new developers in Drupal - Dec 24, 2010 - drupal, geek, mentoring
- Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway - Dec 12, 2010 - drawing, kaizen, sketches
- Experimenting with mornings - Nov 20, 2010 - kaizen, life, productivity
- Conversations: Stian Håklev - Nov 19, 2010 - education, sketches, teaching
- My reading round-up - Nov 6, 2010 - book, reading
- Book: Choose to be happily married: How everyday decisions can lead to lasting love - Nov 2, 2010 - book, love, reading
- Thinking about getting better at writing - Oct 24, 2010 - blogging, delegation, kaizen, writing
- Book: Critical inquiry: the process of argument - Oct 22, 2010 - book, reading
- Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts - Oct 18, 2010 - book, connecting, reading
- Book: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic - Sep 30, 2010 - book, reading
- Book: Thank You for Arguing - Sep 29, 2010 - book, communication, reading
- Book: Getting to Yes - Sep 28, 2010 - book, communication, reading
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode - Sep 24, 2010 - emacs, kaizen, notetaking, org, productivity
- Rhetoric - Sep 22, 2010 - communication, love, reading
- Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review - Sep 11, 2010 - emacs, kaizen, org, process
- Book: Leading Outside the Lines - Sep 2, 2010 - book, management, organization, reading, work
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up - Aug 26, 2010 - communication, ibm, mentoring, productivity, work
- Six steps to make sharing part of how you work - Aug 22, 2010 - blogging, notetaking, presentation, sketches, speaking, work
- Speed-reading - Aug 19, 2010 - reading, sketches, tips
- 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
- Thank you, David Singer - Jun 24, 2010 - ibm, mentoring
- I want to learn how to draw better - Jun 14, 2010 - learning, sketches
- The work of self-understanding - Jun 9, 2010 - drawing, learning, life, reflection, writing
- Travel kaizen and the meaning of life - May 31, 2010 - career, kaizen, purpose, reflection, travel
- Exercising the senses - May 30, 2010 - learning, life
- Imperfection - May 29, 2010 - blogging, career, ibm, learning
- Exponential awesomeness - May 25, 2010 - education, teaching, web2.0
- 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
- I want to learn how to make drawings/videos like this - May 19, 2010 - drawing, learning
- May 2010: Remember and declutter - May 8, 2010 - kaizen, life
- Squirrels, shop class and drafting: making my peace with high school - May 6, 2010 - gardening, learning, life, love, sketches
- Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation - May 2, 2010 - braindump, kaizen, leadership
- Forgot my keys; automating memory - Apr 23, 2010 - kaizen
- Thinking about mentoring - Apr 16, 2010 - mentoring
- Show your work - Apr 10, 2010 - blogging, leadership, learning, sketches, writing
- 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
- Learning from interviews - Mar 21, 2010 - mentoring
- Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud - Mar 20, 2010 - business, mentoring, presentation, speaking
- Book recommendations for new grads - Mar 17, 2010 - career, kaizen, learning, reading
- Kitchen kaizen - Mar 13, 2010 - cooking, kaizen, life
- What do I want to learn? Making a map - Mar 12, 2010 - pkm, ibm, learning, life, planning, plans, work
- Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice - Mar 4, 2010 - kaizen, presentation, speaking, tips
- Not just a word - Mar 3, 2010 - learning, life, mentoring, reflection
- 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
- Moving from testing to development - Feb 6, 2010 - career, development, ibm, mentoring, sketches
- Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock - Feb 3, 2010 - ibm, kaizen, learning, presentation, speaking, work
- Learning more about interviewing - Feb 2, 2010 - ibm, mentoring, work
- From the book bag - Jan 28, 2010 - book, entrepreneurship, finance, reading, sketches
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid - Jan 26, 2010 - book, career, delegation, management, reading
- Book: On Becoming a Leader - Jan 21, 2010 - book, career, leadership, reading
- Facilitation: Thinking about the ends and means - Jan 12, 2010 - learning, work
- I’ll never buy a Moleskine again - Jan 9, 2010 - notetaking, sketches
- Personal knowledge management, morgue files, capture systems - Jan 9, 2010 - pkm, kaizen, notetaking, process
- Learning more about facilitation - Jan 8, 2010 - learning, planning, plans
- On pen and paper - Jan 6, 2010 - notetaking
- Thinking out loud: Mapping what I know - Jan 3, 2010 - pkm, blogging, learning, notetaking
- Book: Rules for Revolutionaries - Jan 2, 2010 - book, reading
- 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
- Learning about note-taking - Dec 23, 2009 - blogging, life, notetaking, productivity
- Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings - Dec 19, 2009 - book, management, productivity, reading
- Learning plan for 2010 - Dec 17, 2009 - learning, life, planning, reflection, yearly
- Conversations with a mentor: chat about plans, mentoring, and knowledge sharing - Dec 16, 2009 - learning, mentoring
- What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees - Dec 15, 2009 - life, mentoring, teaching
- How I find and learn from mentors - Dec 14, 2009 - connecting, learning
- Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101 - Dec 12, 2009 - notetaking, sketches, visual
- Book: Making Work Work - Dec 11, 2009 - book, productivity, reading
- 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
- Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self - Dec 4, 2009 - career, passion, reading, reflection
- Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24 - Dec 3, 2009 - democamp, entrepreneurship, notetaking, passion, sketches, web2.0
- Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career - Dec 3, 2009 - book, career, ibm, passion, purpose, reading, reflection, work
- Living in the sweet spot - Dec 1, 2009 - kaizen, life, reflection, sketches
- Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock - Nov 30, 2009 - leadership, notetaking, presentation, sketches, speaking
- Figuring things out on the fly - Nov 28, 2009 - ibm, learning
- Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life - Nov 27, 2009 - book, life, reading, reflection, sketches
- Oh, the library… - Nov 26, 2009 - learning, library
- Learning how to write - Nov 25, 2009 - delegation, learning, sketches, writing
- Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston - Nov 24, 2009 - ibm, kaizen, reflection
- Thinking about my personal learning environment - Nov 22, 2009 - learning, reflection, sketches
- Book: Leading Out Loud - Nov 20, 2009 - book, communication, leadership, presentation, reading, speaking
- Libraries - Nov 11, 2009 - library, life, reading
- Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee! - Nov 10, 2009 - blogging, book, reading
- Five types of coaching - Nov 7, 2009 - book, leadership, reading
- Working on not misplacing things - Nov 3, 2009 - kaizen, productivity
- Book: Closing the Innovation Gap - Nov 2, 2009 - book, reading
- Learning from failure - Oct 30, 2009 - kaizen, life, productivity
- The “Remote Presentations That Rock” reading list - Oct 30, 2009 - book, reading, speaking
- 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
- Volunteer opportunity for teachers and retired teachers in Ontario - Mar 30, 2009 - education, toronto
- 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
- Making things up - Jan 28, 2009 - learning, life
- Braindump of conference networking tips - Jan 27, 2009 - conference, connecting, kaizen
- The unexpected lightness of learning - Jan 22, 2009 - learning
- 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
- Craftsmanship - Jan 2, 2009 - learning, life
- Why automation matters to me - Dec 11, 2008 - geek, kaizen
- Learning languages - Nov 2, 2008 - learning
- Cat’s doing better; school barbecue - Sep 25, 2008 - cat, education
- Celebrating the little things you learn - Aug 29, 2008 - learning, life
- Deploying to servers - Aug 8, 2008 - development, kaizen
- Do what works for you; It’s not about being Gen Y, it’s about being new - Aug 6, 2008 - geek, learning, life
- 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
- Ruby code to quickly convert titles to ISBNs - Jul 10, 2008 - book, library, reading, ruby
- What do I want to learn? - Jul 6, 2008 - learning, life
- Taking book notes - Jul 3, 2008 - book, productivity, reading
- Learning Japanese? Here are some useful resources - Jun 9, 2008 - japan, japanese, learning
- Some thoughts on reading - May 26, 2008 - book, reading
- Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive - May 26, 2008 - kaizen, management
- The Incoming University Student’s Guide to Web 2.0 - May 16, 2008 - education, tips, web2.0
- 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
- Taking quick notes for books - Feb 12, 2008 - notetaking, reading
- Writing and "Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance" - Feb 10, 2008 - blogging, reading, writing
- Chapter 7: Managing Your Notes in Emacs – done! - Feb 3, 2008 - emacs, notetaking, wickedcoolemacs, writing
- Library Elf is awesome - Feb 3, 2008 - library, reading
- More books - Jan 22, 2008 - reading
- Book notes - Jan 19, 2008 - reading
- Reading Isn’t Dead Yet! - Jan 19, 2008 - reading
- Outlining Your Notes with Org - Jan 18, 2008 - emacs, notetaking, org, wickedcoolemacs
- (In the presence of) Mentors - Jan 14, 2008 - mentoring
- Note-taking: Random notes, journal entries, outlines, and hyperlinks - Jan 9, 2008 - emacs, notetaking, wickedcoolemacs
- Book triage - Jan 7, 2008 - reading
- Reading books - Dec 10, 2007 - reading
- 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
- How to make a complete map of every thought you think - Oct 13, 2007 - notetaking
- First day of driving lessons - Aug 27, 2007 - learning
- Postponing driver’s ed - Jul 30, 2007 - learning
- Learning languages - Jul 24, 2007 - learning
- Buying books - Jul 14, 2007 - reading
- Eoin Colfer! - Jul 6, 2007 - reading
- Driving me crazy - May 25, 2007 - learning
- The Reading Solution, and thoughts on education - Apr 21, 2007 - education
- Multi-modal learning - Apr 18, 2007 - learning
- Book recommendation: The Ten-Minute Trainer - Apr 17, 2007 - reading
- Book recommendation: Light Their Fire - Apr 17, 2007 - reading
- Falling in love with poetry: Viva Shel Silverstein! - Apr 16, 2007 - reading
- Priming my brain - Apr 12, 2007 - learning
- Entertainingly educational books - Apr 10, 2007 - reading
- Field trip! - Apr 8, 2007 - learning
- Falling in love with words - Apr 8, 2007 - reading
- Books, books, books - Apr 2, 2007 - reading
- Grazing in the bookstore - Jan 18, 2007 - reading
- Driving lessons II - Jan 17, 2007 - learning
- Hey! I still know how to drive! - Jan 16, 2007 - learning
- Returning to chess - Jan 15, 2007 - learning
- There's a reason why I learned Japanese - Nov 8, 2006 - japanese
- Learning a foreign language - Nov 2, 2006 - learning
- The dawn of a new Moleskine - Sep 28, 2006 - notetaking
- Reading list - Jun 3, 2006 - reading
- My mom reads my blog - May 31, 2006 - education, family
- Microsoft Word in schools - May 24, 2006 - communication, free and open source, learning, teaching
- Basic Technical Japanese - May 23, 2006 - japanese
- On tutoring - Apr 5, 2006 - education, teaching
- Education brainstorming - Jan 7, 2006 - education, teaching
- The Power of the Human Spirit - Dec 7, 2005 - career, education, life, passion, teaching
- Outreach: CompSAt I.T. Literacy Training for Public School Teachers - Dec 6, 2005 - education, philippines
- Reflections on the lab - Nov 23, 2005 - education, teaching
- If you throw enough pots, you’ll be a master potter - Oct 27, 2005 - learning
- Silk-screening workshop - Sep 16, 2005 - learning
- Divergence - Aug 1, 2005 - japanese
- Learning designers - Jul 18, 2005 - education, passion
- Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers - Jul 12, 2005 - education, passion
- On teaching programming - Jun 2, 2005 - education
- Odd things - May 9, 2005 - japanese
- On computer science education - Apr 28, 2005 - education
- A fun-filled day: part 1. Lunch with Nishida - Apr 9, 2005 - japanese
- National Strategic Planning for ICTs in Basic Education Initiative: A Round Table Discussions - Mar 28, 2005 - education, philippines
- Learning Links - Feb 10, 2005 - education, philippines
- Passed JLPT level 3 - Feb 8, 2005 - japanese
- Nifty Japanese stuff: Kakasi - Jan 28, 2005 - emacs, japanese, linux, ruby
- More Emacs evangelization: flashcard - Jan 14, 2005 - emacs, free and open source, japanese
- Japanese flashcards - Jan 11, 2005 - emacs, japanese
- More hacks for mangling Japanese CSV - Jan 11, 2005 - emacs, japanese
- Japanese word list generator - Jan 7, 2005 - emacs, japanese
- Interesting notes from the best practices - Apr 22, 2004 - education, teaching
- Rough notes on education - Oct 26, 2003 - education
- Outline for application essay - May 5, 2003 - education
- Education versus training — education - Apr 30, 2003 - education
- Online books - Apr 29, 2003 - learning
- E-Learning — education - Apr 29, 2003 - learning
- Sampizcat, canna and kinput2 - Apr 11, 2003 - japanese
