Slides and commentary for the talk I gave at Ignite Waterloo, June 15th. Missing two slides - title slide and end slide (with my twitter handle and website on it). Ignite is a tough format - 5 minutes, 15 seconds a slide, the slides auto-advance. The *'s are where I expect the slide to change ...
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 ...
I loathe email as a form of communication, I do. Having an iPhone has not made me any better at dealing with it, in fact it has made things worse - I can now monitor it in dead time and if there's nothing urgent then there's no need to actually check my email. So, if I ...
One of my closest friends works at another large tech company, and all summer we've been having conversations that go like this: ME: I've had such an awesome day! I found out about this awesome thing and made some progress on my awesome project. I love my job! How was yours? HIM: Good! I finally hunted down ...
This is where I live. In this space between what I could achieve in a given day, or week, or month... and what in my imagination I'm capable of. Of course in my imagination I never kick back and watch a movie with my friend and a bottle of wine (honestly, this rarely happens in reality ...
I've created my slides for my presentation (abstract) following a Presentation Zen (Amazon) approach. So there are basically no words on any of my slides. I'm going to lay them out one by one, with narration. Let me know what you think! I've gone for a blank template. I wonder if this is too plain and ...
Since I started using Remember the Milk my task list is now separate from my email - so email that I mark as "ToDo" items don't show up in it unless I put them there. I've opted not to, and instead made a recurring task every other day to "clear email". As a result of this, ...
This is what I've been finding in my research - what do you think? Anything missing?
People are surprised by this, but there was a period that I checked my email just once a week a la Tim Ferris (Amazon). This was during my gap year when I was working and although it annoyed various people - my boss, a guy I worked with, some of my friends... I didn't have ...
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