I’ve uploaded some slides I put together recently for a couple of events. I’ve also posted my speaker notes below. Many thanks to Leisa Reichelt and Emma Gasson for giving me some useful tips and links this week, to Alice for the slide template (and, spoilers, for the finale) and to Padma Gillen for letting me steal his construction metaphor. […]
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Hidden stress
I realised last year that I have two very different reactions to stress. The first one – the most common and obvious reaction – is to become visibly and obviously agitated. I start speaking about twice as fast, my voice goes up the best part of an octave, and I become flustered and flushed. Visibly […]
Good product management
I was asked to give a short talk to some colleagues about product management. I opted to share some brief attempts to define it. This is hard, so I pointed to other people’s attempts. Next I shared what I think are the characteristics of good product management. This bit, since it was just my current […]
What skills and technologies would you focus on for the next couple of years?
Here’s my list: Digital not IT Git more than SVN Javascript over Java JSON more than XML Python more than PHP Ruby even more than Rails German more than French Mandarin more than German Kano more than Moscow Kanban more than Scrum Kaizen more than perfection Agile much more than PRINCE2 In fact, agile rather than […]
BlinkyTape bike indicators
I made a bike light indicator system out of a BlinkyTape, a PowerMonkey rechargeable battery and some Loom Bands. It starts off with the central front LEDs lit up bright white, and pressing the button on the BlinkyTape switches between steads/left/right indicator modes. The PowerMonkey is a simple little 5v rechargeable battery, with a variety […]
Posting as Holden Caulfield on Secret
I finally found a way to make Secret less boring. I spent a week posting and responding to comments using carefully selected quotes from Holden Caulfield. I gave each one the same background (crimson denim) and I dropped the initial capital on each one in an effort to make the quotes slightly less formal. Catcher […]
Custom KSP controller and display
Here’s my custom controller and display for Kerbal Space Program. Last year, after seeing this custom controller, I was suitably inspired. I wanted to build a simple physical device to control launch/stage, throttle, landing gear, lights, and maybe some custom stages. I knocked up a quick hack just to get a feel for how well […]
Quiver pen holder
Here’s how I used to carry my pen: Here’s how I do it now: So much better. I really love this thing.
Things tags: Emoji, frogs and GTD contexts
I’ve been using Things as my GTD app of choice for quite a long time now. In addition to experimenting with a physical progress meter, I’ve also been fiddling around with the tags. And here are all of my tags and their shortcuts. Mark Twain suggested that we “eat a live frog in the morning and […]
Things meter
I’ve been using the Things app for a while for tracking projects and next actions with the goal of Getting Things Done. I wanted something to help me pay attention to the things I need to get done, and decided that a physical representation of daily progress would be an interesting thing to try. The […]