I’ve cycled into a different mindset of surfing since I started yoga. Its become a lot less of a priority and it’s cleaner for me now. I don’t put so much weight on it. You’re going out there to have fun and also to contribute to everyone else’s fun. You’re not there to get into […]
Making Time
Turning deadlines into plans
Defend the time you need to get your work done When I put a deadline on my calendar, it often seems far off in the future, with lots of time to get everything done. But as the deadline gets closer I wonder where all the time went. Regardless of my intention to make incremental progress against my deadline, it never seems […]
Time Words
Project management grammar Projects wander. Customers have unreasonable expectations. We make promises we can’t keep and that our customers misinterpret. Yet a simple grammar hack may help curb all of this. Consider the difference in clarity between these two versions of a project’s “next steps” we might send to a customer: “The project would cost $X,XXX and […]
Stories
Stories are currency. Stories we agree upon get passed around and create trust. Money is a story. Defending our time includes a critique of the stories we tell about money.
JavaScript, Meditation, Trail Running
PauseOnError is coming to Los Gatos, CA in May with new meditation and trail running tracks. SeedCode’s John Sindelar and Jason Young will be speaking. Check out the introduction to meditation John Tarrant wrote for the event: Outside The Known Territory: Meditation for innovators and engineers [spacer size=”small”] Skepticism and curiosity are helpful; believing things is […]