- Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on
- Quick thoughts on leadership, impact, and finding my own path
- Making my to-do list more detailed; process versus outcome
- What it’s like to work with data
- Embracing the fuzziness
- Enjoy the prep work
- Tell the difference between diminishing returns and compounding growth when it comes to investing in skills
- Different dimensions of scaling up
- Intentionally interrupting momentum and limiting flow
- The 5-year experiment: A conversation with my anxious side, and how sharing time might be better than giving money
- Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects
- Predictable advice about productivity
- Morning, afternoon, evening, commute: thinking about what to do when (sketched)
- When you feel like you're spending a lot of time on low-impact activities
- Relaxed routines
- Sketched Book: Just F*cking Ship – Amy Hoy, Alex Hillman
- Figuring out how my temporary sleep schedule interacts with programming, writing, and drawing
- Rethinking delegation
- Reducing my consulting
- Brock Health and setting up my own health plan
- Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own
- Getting ready for my third fiscal year end
- Figuring out how to deal with sub-optimal times
- Doing more consulting
- Nudging the balance toward work
- Don't worry about your tools in the beginning: Avoiding premature optimization
- Planning my next little business
- Realistic expectations, ruthless elimination, and rapid exploration
- Three productivity tools
- On why frugal me is cool with paying other people to do things
- Thinking about my TODO keywords
- How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog
- How I use Google Chrome custom search engines for quick access
- Rethinking my time categories: the blurring of business and discretionary activities
- Reflecting on goal factoring and akrasia
- Figuring out a fair price for outsourcing work
- Visual book review: Conscious Millionaire: Grow your business by making a difference (JV Crum III)
- Thinking about how virtual assistants can help me with learning and writing
- Contemplating co-op: How can I get to the point of being able to offer a good high school co-op placement?
- How much does it cost to start with virtual assistance?
- Delegation update
- Reflections on infopreneurship
- Delegation: “How can I trust people?”
- Don't be afraid of mistakes when delegating
- What the LEGO Movie and programming are helping me learn about delegation
- Reflections on learning to be an entrepreneur
- Thinking about the systems I can put into place to scale up sharing
- Ramping up delegation
- Improving and delegating more of my podcasting process
- Becoming my own client; also, delegation
- Rock those meeting minutes
- Simplifying my event commitments; tips for people looking for event sketchnotes
- Making the most of Standard Time as the days grow shorter
- High energy and low energy activities
- When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations
- What’s on your back burner?
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched
- Thinking about hard commitments and soft commitments, and adapting my life accordingly
- Help me figure out how I should reinvest business profits
- Sketchnote: Reboot Your Business, Reboot Your Life: Your Future Depends On It – Mitch Joel (Third Tuesday Toronto)
- How I prepare for professional digital sketchnoting
- My next delegation experiment: coaching and editing
- Not about not wasting time
- Thinking about business cards
- Business experience report: Setting up payroll and benefits
- Choosing openness and scale
- What do I want to do right now? Understanding my algorithm for discretionary time
- Unstructured time, shaping your wants, and giving yourself permission
- Thinking about a pro-bono policy; being deliberate about what I do for free, discount, or barter
- Visual book review: The Visual Marketing Revolution (Stephanie Diamond)
- Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference
- Visual book review: The Culture Blueprint (Robert Richman)
- Business experience report: Passing my first annual resolutions
- Dealing with distractions
- Accelerating my business learning: setting a goal for a new business every month
- Helping people learn more about programming
- In which I do the same thing again and again
- Business experience report: Amending my T2 corporate tax return
- Sketching twelve business ideas
- Experience report: Designing my logo
- Experience report: Naming my company!
- Delegation: Being clear about what you value
- Imagining sketchnotes as a business
- One to three, that’s all
- Delegation: How I hire and manage my virtual team
- Investing time into building sketchnotes as a business
- Poach my assistants, they’re awesome
- Delegation update: Scheduling!
- Business update: Tax update
- Tweaking my scheduling process for delegation
- Validating ideas and working with other people
- Buying time: Experimenting with scheduling
- Business experience report: Filing taxes!
- Thinking about wild success
- Business adventures: Accounting
- Business card kaizen
- Planning how to learn about validating business ideas
- Celebrating my fiscal year end; planning how to improve
- Sketchnotes: Different Types of Entrepreneurship, Kerri Golden, Allyson Hewitt (MaRS ENT101)
- Sketchnotes: Small Business Forum [Enterprise Toronto]
- Sketchnotes: ENT101: Lived It Lecture – Bruce Poon Tip (G Adventures) on Social Enterprise
- Sketchnotes: ENT101: Finding and Validating Your Idea, Keri Damen
- Making myself create space
- Coverage-mapping business models, or thinking of this like a business tasting menu
- Thinking about how to learn how to manage others
- Sketchnotes: Marketing in the Round, Gini Dietrich
- Things I would like to see fixed
- Trusting myself with making time
- Experience report: Editing, formatting, and publishing an e-book
- Thinking about pricing and consulting
- Helping startups
- Sketchnotes: Christine Steiger, Christine’s Fitness and Personal Training @ Small Business Network, Toronto Public Library
- Business notes: Working with a virtual accountant
- Building my skills and getting ready for the next steps
- #torontob2b: Sean O’Donovan on managing content for lead generation + Q&A with Ben Harrison and Scott Armstrong
- Business update: Four months in!
- Still working on that shift from services to products
- Making lists of things I do so that I can learn more about delegation
- Sketchnotes: Sandra Emilia Calderaro, Multilingual Kids; Andres D’Imperio, Creative Design (Small Business Network @ Toronto Reference Library)
- A perspective on outsourcing
- Starting up my delegation experiments again: data entry from receipts
- Responsive web, responsive life
- Sketchnotes: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
- Sketchnotes: Red Rocket Coffee, Toronto Public Library Small Business Network meetup
- Sketchnotes: Building a Social Enterprise – Andrew Jenkins (#torontob2b)
- From maker time to learner time
- Learning about business finances
- Why I’m temporarily unhireable
- Learning how to manage time
- Thinking about the time/money swap
- Optimizing for weather and other thoughts about self-employed time
- Getting the hang of making time for business development
- On why I don’t want to work on a tech startup (yet)
- Learning how to say no
- Getting ready for my “The Shy Entrepreneur” talk at the Toronto Reference Library tomorrow (Apr 10 Tue, 6 PM)
- Sketchnotes: William Mougayar (engagio) at Third Tuesday Toronto
- Happy monthsary to me!
- Making space to plan for visual summaries
- Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event
- Celebrating rejection and failure
- Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success
- This is what five years looks like
- Experience report: So much for having a virtual bookstore
- Experience report: Applying for a Harmonized Sales Tax account
- Experience report: A brief chat with an accountant
- Experience report: Opening the RBC Small Business eAccount
- People-centered entrepreneurship
- Experience report: Renting a business mailbox
- It’s okay to not know
- Experience report: Incorporating a federal numbered corporation in Canada
- Sketchnotes: Small business network meetup with Kristina Chau at the Toronto Reference Library
- Thinking about how to experiment with business and what I might want to do
- Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking
- Starting up my experiments in delegation again; the difference between what I want to do and what I want to see
- Personal projects
- Negative productivity and learning from oopses
- Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business
- Thinking about personal random moment studies
- Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination
- Three tips for cheerful chores
- Work on the business from the outside, not in it – Book: Effortless entrepreneur
- Momentum and holidays
- Thinking about housework
- More thoughts on week beginnings: it’s about being proactive
- Week beginnings
- Experimenting with mornings
- Thinking about getting better at writing
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode
- Getting past generation-based conversations
- Tips for entrepreneurs
- The value of constraints
- Book: Leading Outside the Lines
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
- Note-taking revisited
- Long weekend reflections
- Giving myself permission to delegate again
- Keeping track of multiple projects
- Delegation and thinking about what I want to do
- Notes about business communication
- Org-toodledo
- Picking hobbies that fit together
- Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation
- Smarter leaders braindump (long, visual)
- Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor
- Women and technical leadership
- From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter
- Show your work
- Technical leadership
- From delegation to automation
- Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud
- Leadership going virtual: how we can help managers
- What I learned from The Art of Marketing
- From the book bag
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid
- Book: On Becoming a Leader
- What do I delegate, and why?
- Meeting resolutions
- How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock
- Learning about note-taking
- Copious free time? Carefully protected!
- Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
- One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck
- Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey
- Book: Making Work Work
- Editing feedback on The Shy Connector
- Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
- Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock
- Lotus Notes tweaks: Toolbar buttons to file mail
- Learning how to write
- Book: Leading Out Loud
- The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe
- Reflecting on how I can create value
- Thinking about how I can make the most of editing; The world is an amazing candy-store of talent
- Five types of coaching
- Thoughts from “Remote Presentations That Rock”, changing dynamics
- Working on not misplacing things
- Comedy and self-promotion
- Learning from failure
- What to do during boring teleconference calls
- Saving time and money with a chest freezer
- Find your attention wandering during teleconferences?
- Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner
- Swarming talent and manpower outsourcing
- Brainstorming around Smart Work
- Process: Update my IBM meeting calendar
- Thinking of a travel dossier
- Leadership and Embracing Challenge
- Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
- Thoughts on Toodledo versus Emacs Org
- Taking the Stage
- Purple carrots
- Virtual assistance: Process for managing my to-read books
- Learning from Gen Y: Help needed!
- Delegating weaknesses; experimenting with social secretaries
- Getting started with virtual assistance
- Tips for getting started with virtual assistance
- Managing virtual assistants: Imagining more possibilities
- Young and savvy
- Nothing quite like Org for Emacs
- How to do a lot
- Five reasons why I’m experimenting with outsourcing to virtual assistants
- Five favorite Firefox add-ons for virtual assistants
- Reality check! Things are awesome
- On the other side of the (virtual) desk
- Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate
- Being less stupid is harder than being smarter
- AutoHotkey scripts for switching to windows
- Notes from the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit
- Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y
- Gen Y Perspective: Why Gen Y Won’t Stay at Jobs that Suck
- Gen Y Perspective: Flexibility, Work-Life Balance, and Curb Cuts
- Knowledge [shared] is power
- The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
- First impressions in an e-mail world
- Slidecast: New Media, New Generation
- Kaizen: Moving time around
- Managing interruptions
- To dream the impersonal dream
- Taking book notes
- Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive
- The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work
- Generational differences
- Software as a service, high tech startup :: Morph Code :: Schedule of Events
- Quick book notes
- Awesome articles on leadership
- Procrastination
- Rethinking
- Workrave, or why frequent breaks help you go full speed ahead
- Manage from your calendar, not from your task list
- Don Marti’s e-mail productivity hack
- Rotman School of Management: Nexus for non-profits
- Developing a better sense of time
- The power of sales
- Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen
- How to find great developers
- More thoughts on what I want to do with my life
- The great laptop ad campaign
- Thinking about responsibilities: glass, metal, or rubber?
- Starting your own business
- Building a community
- Win-win-win: The power of asking
- BarCampEarthToronto: Search engine optimization
- Livening up your laptop lid: self-adhesive reusable surface
- Sweeeet! WordPress.org bought ad space on my laptop!
- Chasing a wild idea
- Advertise on my laptop! Webpage up
- Whoa, onto something cool here: advertising on the back of my laptop
- Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop!
- MBA elective courses
- Whoa, maybe I'm onto something here
- Turning downtime into uptime
- Business blogging
- Philippines 2.0
- Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship
- Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship
- Mesh magic: Tara Hunt
- Entrepreneurship
- Hacking my productivity
- Time management for system administrators
- Solopreneurship and the Tipping Point
- Personal productivity reading list
- New purpose for plannerlove.com
- Side Jobs
- Custom planner =)
- Template for Debriefing
- Introducing the Hipster PDA
- Office supplies shopaholic
- Productivity
- Hipster PDA: GTD Tiddly Wiki
- New productivity blog: To-Done
- Colored index cards
- Profiling Your Customer
- How I use my Hipster PDA
- BBDB tags
- Keeping in touch
- Sticky notes hack
- Keeping it Personal
- PIM love
- Horrible customer service
- About procrastination
- Today: making the pitch
- Pitching Your Idea (to the supplier of your funds). A free workshop.
- Edwin's comment on financial literacy
- Difficult choices
- Microfinancing
- How to hire great people
- Business book: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
- Turning my mind to money
- Business book: You Can Negotiate Anything
- University of Asia and the Pacific: Business talks
- Managing my mail
- Business idea! =)
- Planner poetry
- 43Folders: Snapshots of a Dream Productivity App