This is really more of a personal management hack than a personnel management hack, but I think it scales pretty well–I’ve had an entire office take vertical days from time to time. And actually, I like this so well that this isn’t the first time I’ve written about it.
The concept is super simple. You just […]
Preface the first: no sympathy cards are needed. This is observation, not experience.
Preface the second: sarcasm follows.
If you’ve read Slacker Manager for any length of time, you know that I like to think about ways to be more efficient while expending less effort. It occurred to me that I haven’t seen a good explanation of […]
TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design, and it’s an annual conference that’s held in Monterey, California each year. It’s pretty exclusive, and allows only 1,000 people to attend each year. Generally speaking, in order to attend, someone who’s already been must recommend you. I’ve always been fascinated by the lineup of speakers at the conference […]
I recently finished reading Lisa Haneberg’s latest book, Focus Like A Laser Beam: 10 Ways To Do What Matters Most, and I also had a chance to chat with her via Skype, which she’ll put out as a podcast pretty soon. I’ll point to that when it’s up.
The short version of this book review is […]
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I’d rather go surfing than do just about anything else. It calms me, centers me, feeds my soul and plus it’s fun. But since the beach is just over an hour’s drive away, I don’t go as often as I’d like. So I look for alternate forms of “therapy.”
We’ve got a great skatepark in our […]
I did some blog cleanup over the weekend which resulted in finishing some features that I’d left laying fallow for far too long. On the blog there’s a sidebar section called “Around here” which has some links. I’ve (finally) added an archive page, and I’ve cleaned up the ‘Best of‘ and ‘Library‘ pages. Also, a […]
A few days ago I reviewed Lencioni’s Death by Meeting, which was the first of his books that I’d ever read. I liked it, so I jumped onto this one right afterward.
I liked this one too, but just not quite as much as the other one. In fact, this one felt a little bit like […]
I’m not much of a baseball fan, but this seems really weird to me. It’s an article explaining how a minor league team from the Chicago area is planning to allow fans to manage the team for the entire second half of their season. There are caveats, such as not allowing players to play positions […]
Just a couple of quick links to some new apps that have been pointed out to me recently.
First is Joe’s Goals, which is a super simple web-based goal tracker that has all the ajaxy stuff you’ve come to expect. There’s not really any social aspect (read: external guilt) which we’ve also come to expect […]
I didn’t actually read this one, I listened to it. What a great book. I hadn’t read anything by Lencioni before getting into Death by Meeting. Truth is, when books start getting kinda popular, I tend to shy away from them (sometimes I doubt the wisdom of the crowd (and I haven’t read that one […]
This is totally off the main Slacker Manager focus, but are there any Drupal gurus in the house? I’m working on a community site for admissions professionals and I’m stumped as to how to set up a simple directory of categorical weblinks. You know, a section for vendors, a section for listservs, etc… Should be […]
I won’t be there, but my buddy Roger is organizing a London meetup and asked me to promote it. Done. Details can be found over at Technological Winter. Sounds pretty fun, sorry I’ll miss it. Maybe somebody will invite me to their shindig in Portland (hint).
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June is apparently backup awareness month. Who knew? But it’s never a bad time to get better at backing up your data. Looks like Maxtor and Seagate have teamed up for a viral site to promote backups (and a chance to win an external drive).
From the email:
To better educate people on this important topic, Seagate/Maxtor […]
If you rock a Mac, like me, you’ll be pleased to know that there is now a version MindManager that works with OSX! I’m super-stoked about it. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now, and it’s definitely in daily rotation. It’s my standard notetaking and brainstorming application. I’ve gotten into the habit […]
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