After a month of "rehab" my shoulder is a lot better, and my apartment is looking pretty awesome. I've found just keeping in mind what my focus is this month helpful in making real progress, and I'm ready to get back in the gym more and will post pictures of my apartment soon. I didn't really ...
The harsh truth is that no-one cares about your idea the way you do. I tell you this, not to be mean, nor to suggest your idea is not brilliant, or that you are somehow lacking in your communication of it... just because if you think that someone else is going to fill in when you're ...
My mind was blown at TEDx Waterloo - the Uncharted - on Thursday. Seriously, it was SO AWESOME. I was extremely excited and it was more awesome than even I had prepared myself for. Vincent John Vincent (from GestureTek) talked about gesture-based computing. It's incredible what they've been doing and for how long, and made me ...
I travel completely chaotically. Most of the time I can't remember where I'm staying (yay for free wifi at airports), I almost never exchange currency in advance, and I would never dream of arriving the "recommended" three hours before an international flight. The thing is, I know it will never be as awful as taking the boat from ...
I feel tremendously fortunate that when I write something I'm hesitant to hit "post" on, people leave these amazing comments that make me feel like less of a failure and like whatever it was I wrote, was worth sharing. Having a crisis about not finishing grad school, I wrote Being Human, and then Dropping Out when I came to ...
It's the day of my paper deadline, I have a horrible throat infection (complete with headache and rasping cough) and I'm just FREAKING OUT because it all seems like TOO MUCH and why why why did I not just hole myself up in my apartment and get on with things? Why did I come back ...
This time last year, I made a list of what I wanted to happen in 2010. The goals I set were helpful and I met (or nearly met) most of them but next year everything is changing - I don't know what goals I should be setting. How do I set professional goals for a ...
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Amazon) is a must for anyone who feels their genius is insufficiently recognized and needs to start focusing on action, not ideas. In my In Pursuit of Awesome talk, one of the points was - "Ideas are Cheap. Execution is expensive." This book is all about ...
I hate what I'm working on lately. That's probably been apparent from the moaning on Twitter and somewhat angsty blogposts. It's nearly done... but it doesn't feel that way. It feels endless. What I've noticed, is how much of a struggle it is to be in the moment, working on whatever it is that I should ...
I received something in the mail last week, and it made me really happy. It was a copy of What Would Google Do? (Amazon) and a hilarious card from the wonderful Ian at the Code Factory. It really made me think about how I changed as a person during the two years I spent in Ottawa. ...
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