Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance
"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."
"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
And it’s my second essay collection. My first essay collection, Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, is sold out and I don’t talk much about it anymore. I’m glad I made it, I was so joyful designing it and getting it printed and connecting with people about
I’m reading Start More Than You Can Finish, by Becky Blades, which I believe I found through Tracy Durnell’s page documenting her explorations into creative process. I was instantly intrigued by the title, having also read Charlie Gilkey’s Start Finishing, which obviously has some similar themes but
"if you can’t see the small you will keep leaping from built thing to built thing"
An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad? I’m still surprised that I can’t find much on google regarding how habit tracking was invented. It seems like the kind of thing someone would pitch a deep dive into, especially given how easy it is to find articles