Category: Thoughts
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Making a Commitment to My Blog
I regularly tell myself that it’s time to blog again. All I need to do is write more of what I’m thinking, share more tutorials, and develop content around what people who hire my company might want to see. I need to prove value to get people to pull out their wallets, and a personal…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Technology
In the final day of reviewing the 54 books that I’ve finished so far in 2017, I’m talking about books focused mainly on technology. I work in tech, I talk tech all the time, and one day I want to be known for writing about tech too. In the Beginning…Was the Command Line Neal Stephenson…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Autobiographies and Biographies
Today's books are mainly autobiographies, with one biography tossed in. I generally prefer autobiographies since they are direct from the source. While they lack the detachment and long view that a biography might possess, memoirs and personal accounts feel more visceral and real to me. Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Fiction
Today is a focus on the fiction books that I read this year. I read more fiction than I have in the past few years, as I got stuck in the rut of assuming that only non-ficton was worth the majority of my time. Stories, even those not based in fact, are useful thinking tools,…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Culture and Politics
Today's focus is on books that relate to culture or politics. I chose a mix of older and newer books this year. As the first few books show, the problems of yesterday are the problems of today in a different form. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads I'm going to…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Business Tactics
I don’t read many business books, but this year I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how my businesses are working out. I’ve been running Orange Blossom Media for about nine years now, and FixUpFox has been my main focus for the past two years. I’m working on updates to both, as well as…
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Returning to Writing with Reviews
I make a variety of pledges to myself every year, and one that consistently comes up is to write more. Not that Tweets, emails, instructions, and comments aren’t writing, but they aren’t the standalone pieces that I want to use as a catalogue of experiences. Looking back on the year, I published a grand total…
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Binge and Purge: My Social Media Diet is Gross
A few days ago I woke up and against my own judgement decided to check my email before exercise. Unsurprisingly, with a world news email that I get every morning, there was something that got me angry and instantly shot up my already not great blood pressure. I finally made a decision that had been…
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#WinterTrip 2016 Part 5
I’m a bit behind with this post because there’s so much that’s been going on in the past three days as I’ve been in the city, and I’ve been getting back exhausted each night. One of the problems of coming to where something is always happening means that there have to be tradeoffs and decisions…
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#WinterTrip 2016 Part 4
Contributor Day was pretty comfortable at the end of WordCamp US. I worked with the community team a bit, reminding myself of the many things that I want to work on. When I get back home this is part of my list of projects that get more of my attention. It becomes hard to make…
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#WinterTrip 2016 Part 3
The second day of WordCamp US was just as strong as day one. Fairly often this isn’t the case, as attendance at the average camp falls off sharply. This speaks to the strength of the schedule, and the dedication of the attendees. The day started with pumpkin pancakes and bacon, ended with Italian small plates…
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#WinterTrip 2016 Part 2
Two things that I’m not very comfortable with are doing heavy work from my phone and being in large parties. I’m trying to learn to deal with the first at least, starting with doing all of my travel posts without my laptop. The first day of WordCamp US was a standard blur of bumping into…