I am going to write for 20 minutes or so. Actually maybe less. I am going swimming with my Grandpa this morning. I am excited for it. A little scared because I said I was going to fast and I realized…

That’s a weird experience, I have never felt anything like that. Hope I will be fine, hope everything will work out.

Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together.Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes:The chapters we will be readingA…

Field Day vendors pay real money to get in front of a room full of independent engineers. These engineers have zero obligation to write a post, produce content, or even discuss anything they see.…

Looking back on the funfilled month of April.

Each morning I look over my work calendar and make a series of verbal requests: Set a timer for 9:59 Set a timer for 10:59 Set a timer for 11:29 Set a timer for 1:29 Set a timer for 2:29 Why? I do…

YouTube recommended me a segment from Cal Newport’s podcast lately with five rules for combating brain rot.[1] Here’s a quick summary with some comments, minus Newport’s overly nerdy procedures for…

“Building an AI-native firm in 30 days” is a great LinkedIn AI slop bait title. We are not AI-native. We are roughly 10x more AI-enabled than we were on April 1st. Those are different sentences. The…

Talking shop over Jamaica Blue Mountain ice drip…

Finding meaning in tragedy. The post Podcast Ep. 537 | Jerome appeared first on The Minimalists.

Organizations compete with their strategies. They win because their strategy is right – and because it got executed well. The Strategy Activation Playbook: A Practical Approach to Bringing Your…

semi-hiatus

I've been buying and selling stuff on Facebook (FB) market ever since I "inherited" my mum's tiny 2000 something shit box Toyota car (2020). Even though I do not actively use Facebook, if anything I…

This week's projects include the blog's code and library updates.

I drew this week’s cartoon inspired by today’s content overload and the circular creator economy. When I left college in the 90s, I moved to Prague and found a job at Velvet, an…

User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90 phones | AI helps teaching assistants provide better feedback to students | AI as a metacognitive…

Shopping ⌚️ I stopped wearing my Apple Watch a few months ago when I realized that it didn’t function correctly with my new sleeve tattoo. I miss having a wristwatch so I’ve been thinking about an…

David Epstein, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ​The Sports Gene​ and ​Range​, has a new book out called ​Inside the Box​. As ... Read more The post On Bottlenecks and Productivity…

Lately I’ve not listened to anything to fall asleep to. Having a newborn baby has meant that for the first time ever I’ve gone to sleep quite easy, when the...

it is one thing to start, and another to keep going. evidently, i am struggling to think of anything else to talk about on here just like i struggle with it in general, unfortunately. but let's at…

We've all been there. You sit down at your desk at 9am with the best of intentions. By 9:45am you've watched a clip of a dog failing to catch a frisbee, half-listened to a true crime podcast, and…

I went on holiday to Copenhagen again, and now I'm back I'm happy to catch up on everyone's blog posts. Sylvia created a things that are true page based on my page - it's very fun to see what's on…

Hell yeah! Let’s start by swearing! Swearing is good! This is not a “Fuuuuck”, that slow, defeated, sigh of a fuck. This is “Fuck it!!!”, the one that nails you to the…

Often, my ideas come at random times and places and I need to jot them down before I forget them. I began looking for a quick solution to get my thoughts down, but I can’t use my phone’s on-screen…

When I ran community choirs, I used to insist that singers stood during rehearsals. But some complained that their legs ached by the end of the evening. Now I usually get people to sit for singing…

A couple of years ago, I was doing a Strategic Consulting engagement for a global company that operates in 75 […] The post Smart KPIs: Accountability Over Outcomes Over Activity. appeared first…

In the nearly two months since I last published something on this very good blog, Katy and I: Listed our house. Got two offers on our house in less than two weeks. Sold our house. I can't believe…

Here’s something I’ve noticed about my own behavior. And I don’t necessarily like it. When I’m in a meeting or a conversation, I drift the moment things go on too long without something interesting.…

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Issue 387: Goodness in the flames – Read the full issue in the archive.

Early morning sunrise It’s been almost two months since I lost my dad, and life has been a whirlwind of admin, funeral arrangements, house clearing, mine and Benno’s birthdays, and my usual life of…

Week 10: Ask 3 Mentors for Feedback on Your Career Direction Some fun pics of our new Outliers Books in Eugene! We’ve been open 3 weeks and it’s going really well, although hugely steep…

I have such a huge desire to buy more clothes and I want to say that I cannot buy brands like buck mason or todd snyder because i can't afford, but it's not really true. I think I have like an…

First of all, my apologies for leaving this blog with a rather morbid vent and then disappearing for like...a month or so. I had been busy caring for mom post-mastectomy while trying to navigate…

Reflections on a mental model that has deeply influenced my work — and which is more relevant than ever.

As I fill in my current notebook over 2026, I feel much more motivated to just paste scraps and ephemera in between the pages, especially when I don’t have the time to really sit down and ‘get all of…

I have a guestbook now. Yay. My mother and I have been hanging out a lot this week. I took her to watch what would turn out to be terrible stand-up. On the way there, I reminded her that comics are…

My colleague and I were to meet at the court complex for my initiation into how courtrooms work. As a joke-quip, I said to my colleague, "See you in court!" And so, for the next handful of…

🚵‍♂️ SRAM Force T-Type chain: surprisingly little wear 🚵‍♂️ The network of routes for gravel riding here in the region is growing ⚡ The house now has an “intelligent metering system” (iMSys) 🗺️…

Trump shares bizarre AI-generated image of himself lounging in Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool with Cabinet members Japanese toilet maker Toto surges 18% on AI chip component expansion plan They…

Birbs, week two — what the system got wrong, four times, and what came back from the dead Follow-up to "Monitoring the Situation — The Internet of Birbs" When I hit publish on…

I went to the beach Saturday. We washed Gwen Saturday. She was delighted. We watched Groundhog Day and it was–as always–excellent. Again. My art piece Galletas de Mar pero no comer sold…

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com I use Draft2Digital for a lot of different things: formatting, distributing to multiple retailers, and entering promo opportunities. What I love most…

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward." When Steve Jobs said that, he was talking about calligraphy classes and typography. For me, it was buffer…

Three months after speaking at FOSDEM in Brussels, I brought my family to LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA. What I found was a college town bursting with craft beer, open-source energy, and one…

Celebrated eleven years of going through life with LC

27th april to 3rd may

This weekend was amazing. We took our kids to see a live show featuring some of their favorite characters from tv. Their faces, laughter, dancing, holding hands while walking together… there’s simply…

Normally, I write to think. Today, we're trying something new. Writing not to think. Or, really, writing to not think about things that are stressing me out. I'm one of the least stressed folks I…