Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain who we are in a concise way on a resume or an Instagram bio, and use that clarity to move forward in life.
When was the last time you explained something to someone? Did you do so willingly? With the excitement of mutual discovery? Did you do so grudgingly, perhaps because they’d never understand anyway? Or maybe because you couldn’t believe they hadn’t just googled it? (Remember that website, Let
I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding
"There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."
"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."
I’m not going to finish this one right now, although I think it’s an important book. I’ve made it about a third of the way through. I tend to agree with this review in Resilience. Specifically: With all the admonitions, I was prepared to be deeply affected
Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the listener to make the shift to the future
I’ve made things too complicated again. It’s almost like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, except for online presence. I got this secret blog, but then I wanted a secret digital garden, and then I wanted to redo my website, and then I wanted to restart my
If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?
Last week, I wrote three conference abstracts while pausing about every half-sentence to interact with my toddler. This workshop will— “Yes, it’s a pink circle.” —help participants to expand and apply their knowledge about— “Oh, you want daddy to draw a circle? Okay!” etc etc etc I finished