Yesterday, I did my fourth annual workshop for my coworkers on choosing a “Word of the Year”. I wrote a detailed blog on the workshop […]
New Year’s Poem, 2023
Every year I write a poem for work and read it at our last company meeting of the year. Here’s the poem I wrote for […]
Work Trip
I’m in Austin for a couple of days for work. For me, it’s a lot of travel the week before Christmas but Austin has good […]
From Last December
Last December I wrote an email to my future self as part of a work annual planning meeting. I scheduled it to be sent on […]
Nonviolent Communication
I’ve been rabbit-holing on microlearning content for work a few times in the past week. How do you provide bite-sized pieces of information that people […]
Psychological Safety Rabbit Hole
My normal writing window tonight got taken up preparing for a training I’m giving tomorrow for our managers at work. I didn’t have to spend […]
A Thought from James Clear
I subscribe to James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter that goes out every Thursday. He’s the author of Atomic Habits (a great book I first read in […]
Offsite, Day 1
The real reason I’m in Austin started today — annual planning for my job. We had a half day today which meant noon to five […]
Pomodoro App
I dusted off the old Pomodoro technique to get some work done today. That’s the productivity method where you set a timer for 25 minutes […]
Coworking Space
Tried something different today and went to a coworking space. NWTC has a small coworking space in Sister Bay that I’ve been on the waitlist […]