Category Archives: learning

Okay, Here’s the Plan:

2010 is the year that we collectively work our asses off. Sound good? Post done.
Well, wait. I suppose that’s a bit over the top. Here’s what I mean: I’ve been noodling up to now. Not really persistently focusing on this project. There’s nothing wrong with that, unless you actually have expectations of results. At that [...]

You Can’t Have Any Pudding if You Don’t Eat Your Meat

There is a lot to be said for consistency. One tendency I had early on was to ping pong from thing to thing, and not settle down on a particular topic or interest area. Since watching most of the livestream of WordCamp Portland last weekend, though, I’ve really tried to buckle down and get serious [...]

How’s Your Why?

Something I saw today on a forum I frequent reminded me of an old story that a friend of mine used to tell when he was doing keynotes for financial institutions. Usually his topic was sales and service, and he was good at what he did. But I always thought that for all the hyperbole [...]