Betterment

Twenty years ago, it didn’t seem like a burdensome task to write a handwritten letter to a loved one. Fifteen years ago, it wasn’t a big deal to write a long email to a friend. Today, it can feel hard to motivate yourself to tap out a two line response to a text. The feeling […]

What I got from creating a visual representation of my career and the things I’ve learned over time

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Say you want to learn French. Would you do better if you studied for 100 hours in a year-long course (~2 hours per week) or if those hours were compressed into a month (~20 hours per week)? Surprisingly, the answer seems to be that more intensive language education programs do better! This appears to be […]

The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any en…

The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. Thirty years ago, AOL was my company’…

It’s not hypocritical to help yourself at a buffet at the same time you counsel the owner of the restaurant to limit the number of trips that people take so that the restaurant can become sus…

While “labyrinth” is sometimes used to describe a deliberately confusing maze with branching passages and dead ends, a classical labyrinth has a single clear path to the center and back out again. This “unicursal” pattern has existed since ancient times and shows up in cultures around the world. It’s been etched onto pottery, carved into […]

Achieving one important thing a day is more than most people accomplish.

If you’re building a long-term notes repository, you may want to consider syncing it with git [https://git-scm.com/]. In this video, we discuss how to set up Obsidian [https://obsidian.md]to sync between your devices automatically using git and GitHub. Updated: December 2021 At the time of

The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two components: –The story and expectations and cultural impact of what you do (the story).…

Technique created by Alberto Brandolini that helps to understand more clearly the domain of the applications through the events generated…

Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t care. It’s possible to educate and inspire. It might be more productive to find…

Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to is often up to someone else. The things we’re required to do by the system or the people in…

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For quite some time, my own ops haven't had much dev in them. But I'm changing that.

Getting started with the Templater Obsidian plugin? Here’s a list of commands to experiment with. After creating this video about the plug-ins I’m currently using, I mentioned Templater quite a bit. And so, I created a list of commands I’ve used to systemize my vault. Keep in mind, Templater has the

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Practically Paperless with Obsidian is a new blog series I am writing about going “practically paperless” (as in the practical sense” based on lessons learned from my Going Paperl…

If you are getting started in technical writing, you might be interested in this list of open technologies that make technical writing easier.

…is no choice at all. The stable owner gets to pick which horse you get. Take it or leave it. Some people prefer this. It means that we’re off the hook and not responsible. It relieves …

And then what happens? Many small businesses start with generosity and good intent at their core. But it’s a rough ride, and especially when outside funding is involved, it’s easy to ge…

In discussions about getting older, people will sometimes say, “When you’re young, you think adults have it together. But when you become an adult yourself, you realize grown-ups don’t know what they’re doing either!” This is shared as some kind of conspiratorial secret — a ubiquitous-yet-under-discussed truth. Yet this “truth” is hardly universal. There are […]

A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and neighborhoods,” can spend a lot of time doing not much of anything before they realize that …

There are positive aspects to social media, definitely, but it can also suck away a lot of your time, motivation, and positivity. So how do you balance it? First of all, you do balance it. You thin…