- Working with the flow of ideas
- Revisiting stenography and Twiddling
- Reflecting on wasted effort
- Using some babysitting time for personal projects
- How A- is helping me learn how to read better
- Adjusting to less focused time
- Textbook Thursday: elaboration, board games, tech
- Back to biking
- Thinking about more reflection and sharing
- Babysitting experiment #2: the baker
- Experience report: getting a babysitter from an agency
- Playground kaizen
- Dealing with preoccupation and a slow tempo
- Travel kaizen
- Tickling my brain
- Dealing with thought fragmentation, reducing mental waste
- Quick thoughts on leadership, impact, and finding my own path
- What do I want to think through when writing on my phone?
- How can we prepare for W-‘s return to work?
- Oops, forgot my library card
- Exploring neighbourhood libraries and other notes from the Toronto Public Library Hackathon
- Thinking about problem-solving and sequencing
- Thinking about changing interests
- Leaning into absent-mindedness
- Mapping knowledge
- The balance between doing and improving – evaluating yak-shaving
- The imperfect fungibility of time: thinking about how to use money to accelerate learning
- How can I make better use of my index card drawing process?
- Sketched Book – The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande
- Shrinking my learn-do-share-review cycle
- Tell the difference between diminishing returns and compounding growth when it comes to investing in skills
- Break down what people mean so that you can learn from the specifics
- Learning from people
- Learning from artists: making studies of ideas
- Read business books more effectively through application, visualization, or reviews
- Deliberately making sense
- Learning a little more quickly
- Figuring out what to read by figuring out what you want to become or make or do
- Learning more effectively by exploring various unknowns
- Connecting to previous thoughts and covering more ground
- Improving how I organize notes with Org Mode
- Figuring out how my temporary sleep schedule interacts with programming, writing, and drawing
- Keeping a process journal
- My current book workflow
- Planning little improvements
- Coming to terms with online courses
- Becoming a better reader
- Avoiding spoilage with bulk cooking
- Learning from the Alternative Uses Task
- Learning with the end in mind
- Routines
- Tweaking the way I write
- Drawing update
- Teaching myself to prefer what's good for me
- Developing opinions
- I notice I have cyclic interests
- Mental hacks for slower speech
- Small talk tweaks
- Digging into my limiting factors when it comes to interviewing people for podcasts
- Describing my personal knowledge management routines with Harold Jarche's Seek-Sense-Share framework
- Good enough, good, awesome: Thinking about what I want to get to
- Test-driven learning
- Focus and fluency: learning when you're a fox
- More tips for self-directed learning: deliberate practice
- Learning from people
- Getting better at learning on my own
- Thinking about my reading
- How to read blogs efficiently with a feed reader
- Adapt to your learning style
- Planning my learning; It's okay to learn in a spiral
- Learning from online role models
- Read more effectively by asking yourself questions while you read
- Check out these getting started guides – suggest more!
- Make the most of a day of lectures
- Think about your delta: increasing the difference you want to make
- How I review my notes
- Finding the right balance between thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing
- Thinking about how to get better at asking questions
- Mapping what I’m learning
- Mindmapping chat with Billy Waters (@vitaminsludge)
- Visual book review: How to make a complete map of every thought you think (Lion Kimbro)
- What do I want to learn about learning?
- Learning more about illustrating my blog posts
- Test what you know by sharing
- Using Emacs to figure out where I need to improve in order to type faster
- Growing authority
- The learning machine: How I turn what I learn into blog posts
- What keeps you from taking notes? 9 excuses and how to get past them
- Thinking about how to type faster than 110wpm
- Thinking about how I can use Evernote more effectively
- Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats
- How I learn: 16 things I’ve learned about mindset and process
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle of learning
- Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast (Josh Kaufman)
- Thinking about small talk at networking events
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1!
- Turn your unfair advantages into more unfair advantages
- Good influences in partnerships
- Learning update May 2013
- Stepping sideways into Alternate Universe Sacha
- Learning how to deal with mild panic
- Why and how I’m (re)learning Japanese
- Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference
- Practice Perfect: Calling your shots
- Things I’m learning about sharing other people’s knowledge, or why you should show me what you’ve been meaning to teach others
- How I read books and do visual book reviews
- Understanding my procrastination
- Analyzing my London trip decisions: What worked well? What can I improve?
- Debugging my brain: typos (write-os?) in my sketchnotes
- The Sketchnote Challenge: Those Algorithms That Govern Our Lives (Kevin Slavin)
- Taking advantage of a bad cold
- Things I learned from the GenArtHackParty
- What I’m learning from the sketchnote index
- Reflections on sketchnoting TEDxOCADU
- Planning my code/development learning
- An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that’s a good thing
- In which I do the same thing again and again
- Understanding how I’m changing as a speaker
- Delegation: Being clear about what you value
- Tips for growing as a sketchnoter
- Delegation: How I hire and manage my virtual team
- Sketchnote reflection: conference intensity
- Discovering the MaRS #startupbookclubTO: The $100 Startup
- Coming up with a three-word life philosophy
- Business card kaizen
- A long reflection on getting more out of each hour
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations
- Process: Reading nonfiction books
- Thinking about a visual process library
- Breaking down something that’s intimidating to learn
- 80% and tweaking
- Learning from the basics
- Working on getting better at calendars
- Scanning my notebooks
- Quantified Awesome: Blogging, WPM, and the speed of reflection
- Pizza pizza pizza pizza
- Learning more about what I want to learn
- From maker time to learner time
- Learning how to say no
- Six ways I’m learning how to get better at drawing sketchnotes
- Visual book review: Enough, by Patrick Rhone
- Visual book review: Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument
- What I want from visual notetaking; imagining wild success
- Visual book notes: How to Read a Book
- Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success
- Visual book notes: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Five things I’ve learned from five awesome years at IBM
- Helping kids build their vocabularies: spell-offs and bedtime stories
- Learning research skills
- What to do when you have a hard time listening to lectures: adapting as a visual learner
- Tip: Use visibility to motivate new habits
- Thinking about reviewing archives
- CSS theming, magnification, and foot pedals
- Figuring out my CSS workflow
- Learning from CSS tweaking
- Reducing clutter in the kitchen
- Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O
- Learning plans and time budgets: packing things into 2012
- Growing as a developer: Automated tests
- Learning how to model with Google Sketchup
- Massages, physical feedback, and behaviour modification
- Quantified Awesome: A place for everything, and everything in its place
- Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking
- Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal
- Practising drawing: variations on a theme
- Figuring out how to plan for a month
- Getting better at working at the office
- Update on typing: Added AutoCorrect hotkey script, now clocking in at 118wpm
- Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history
- Thinking about improving our freezer use
- Notes on transcription with and without a foot pedal
- Batch cooking
- Thinking about outsourcing transcription or doing it myself
- Kids’ cartoons and learning piano
- Lessons learned from project M
- Piano lesson week 2
- Starting piano again
- Thinking about activities to share with others
- Planning for summer
- Meaning and acknowledgement
- Learning from the speeches of grade seven students
- Writing your way past “What have I been doing with my life?”
- Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values
- Personal projects
- Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens
- Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk)
- Getting things ready for the next week: cooking and gardening
- Thinking about our development practices
- Decision review: calendars, development, standing desks, toe shoes, Kindle, bike, CSA, Autodesk Sketchbook, blogging
- Dealing with a bad calendar week
- Experimenting with standing desks
- Presentation draft: Mentoring on the Network
- Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes
- Ordered a Kindle with free 3G
- Walking outside my comfort zone – bike? push/kick scooter?
- Cattus Petasatus
- First foray into community-supported agriculture
- Condensing requirements into use cases
- Thoughts from marriage: Learning together
- Study group: Flashcards and the Leitner method
- Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference
- The enemy of your enemy is your friend: mnemonics and negative integers
- Writing macrons in Linux for Latin pronunciation
- Making better use of travel time
- Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness
- Three cat life
- Math study group: Positive and negative numbers
- On developing a reputation for project work
- Spousonomics: Using economics to master love, marriage, and dirty dishes
- Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources
- Helping kids learn algebra
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers)
- Quid est nōmen tuum? Nōmen meum est “Sacha”
- Decision trees and self-challenges: how my laptop’s recent battery failure is a great excuse to think
- Thinking about a developer setup template
- Math and energy
- Kaizen: Thinking about presentations
- Decision review: Limiting my blog to one post a day
- Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters
- Imagine success for social media
- From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to learning and building a reputation along the way
- On friendship and getting better at it
- Working on estimates
- Disagreement and the road to trusting yourself
- Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination
- Work on the business from the outside, not in it – Book: Effortless entrepreneur
- Moving my book notes online
- Marking up books
- Reflections on mentoring new developers in Drupal
- Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway
- Experimenting with mornings
- Conversations: Stian Håklev
- My reading round-up
- Book: Choose to be happily married: How everyday decisions can lead to lasting love
- Thinking about getting better at writing
- Book: Critical inquiry: the process of argument
- Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts
- Book: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
- Book: Thank You for Arguing
- Book: Getting to Yes
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode
- Rhetoric
- Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review
- Book: Leading Outside the Lines
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
- Six steps to make sharing part of how you work
- Speed-reading
- Note-taking revisited
- Electronic ears: Using Performous to learn how to sing
- Thank you, David Singer
- I want to learn how to draw better
- The work of self-understanding
- Travel kaizen and the meaning of life
- Exercising the senses
- Imperfection
- Exponential awesomeness
- Getting the hang of gardening
- Presented Remote Presentations That Rock v2 for the Best of TLE 2009 series
- I want to learn how to make drawings/videos like this
- May 2010: Remember and declutter
- Squirrels, shop class and drafting: making my peace with high school
- Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation
- Forgot my keys; automating memory
- Thinking about mentoring
- Show your work
- WordPress admin screen tweaks
- Reflections on PresentationCampToronto
- Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter
- Learning from interviews
- Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud
- Book recommendations for new grads
- Kitchen kaizen
- What do I want to learn? Making a map
- Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice
- Not just a word
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
- Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector
- Moving from testing to development
- Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
- Learning more about interviewing
- From the book bag
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid
- Book: On Becoming a Leader
- Facilitation: Thinking about the ends and means
- I’ll never buy a Moleskine again
- Personal knowledge management, morgue files, capture systems
- Learning more about facilitation
- On pen and paper
- Thinking out loud: Mapping what I know
- Book: Rules for Revolutionaries
- On the practice of a weekly review
- Meeting resolutions
- Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement
- Learning about note-taking
- Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
- Learning plan for 2010
- Conversations with a mentor: chat about plans, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
- What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees
- How I find and learn from mentors
- Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101
- Book: Making Work Work
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations
- Editing feedback on The Shy Connector
- Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self
- Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
- Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career
- Living in the sweet spot
- Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock
- Figuring things out on the fly
- Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life
- Oh, the library…
- Learning how to write
- Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston
- Thinking about my personal learning environment
- Book: Leading Out Loud
- Libraries
- Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee!
- Five types of coaching
- Working on not misplacing things
- Book: Closing the Innovation Gap
- Learning from failure
- The “Remote Presentations That Rock” reading list
- What to do during boring teleconference calls
- Speaking of routines: life is cyclic
- Routines
- Reflecting on how to prepare for workshops
- Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
- Preventive maintenance and the Goldtouch Go! keyboard
- Reflecting on public speaking and my talk management system
- Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project
- More thoughts on calendar management
- Volunteer opportunity for teachers and retired teachers in Ontario
- Quick tips for making the most of Sametime Unyte
- From reactive to proactive, from inboxes to goals; thinking about the big picture
- Five reasons why I’m experimenting with outsourcing to virtual assistants
- Improving my talk management process
- Five favorite Firefox add-ons for virtual assistants
- Still looking for an awesome calendar management system
- Tungle for the win: kaizen and calendar management
- Okay, even more impressed by Timebridge
- VA Days: Rethinking web search and virtual assistance
- VA Days: Refining web research process for virtual assistance
- On the other side of the (virtual) desk
- What does wild success look like? Kaizen and life; tweaking mornings
- Scaffolds and structures
- Reflections on presentation; looking for a coach
- Recording of Enterprise 2.0 and Knowledge Management lecture
- Book workflow
- Kaizen: unsqueaking
- Making things up
- Braindump of conference networking tips
- The unexpected lightness of learning
- Being less stupid is harder than being smarter
- Dealing with weaknesses: calendars
- AutoHotkey scripts for switching to windows
- Craftsmanship
- Why automation matters to me
- Learning languages
- Cat’s doing better; school barbecue
- Celebrating the little things you learn
- Deploying to servers
- Do what works for you; It’s not about being Gen Y, it’s about being new
- Kaizen: Moving time around
- Development kaizen: Deployment and testing
- Kaizen: What would make our Drupal lives better?
- Ruby code to quickly convert titles to ISBNs
- What do I want to learn?
- Taking book notes
- Learning Japanese? Here are some useful resources
- Some thoughts on reading
- Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive
- The Incoming University Student’s Guide to Web 2.0
- Kaizen Presentations: Web 2.0 and the University
- Restructuring Presentations: The Leadership Journey
- TLE 2008: I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us
- Optimizing my day
- Taking quick notes for books
- Writing and "Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance"
- Chapter 7: Managing Your Notes in Emacs – done!
- Library Elf is awesome
- More books
- Book notes
- Reading Isn’t Dead Yet!
- Outlining Your Notes with Org
- (In the presence of) Mentors
- Note-taking: Random notes, journal entries, outlines, and hyperlinks
- Book triage
- Reading books
- Kaizen: meetings
- Kaizen: Tweaking my schedule
- Best laid plans of mice and men
- Learning
- How to make a complete map of every thought you think
- First day of driving lessons
- Postponing driver’s ed
- Learning languages
- Buying books
- Eoin Colfer!
- Driving me crazy
- The Reading Solution, and thoughts on education
- Multi-modal learning
- Book recommendation: The Ten-Minute Trainer
- Book recommendation: Light Their Fire
- Falling in love with poetry: Viva Shel Silverstein!
- Priming my brain
- Entertainingly educational books
- Field trip!
- Falling in love with words
- Books, books, books
- Grazing in the bookstore
- Driving lessons II
- Hey! I still know how to drive!
- Returning to chess
- There's a reason why I learned Japanese
- Learning a foreign language
- The dawn of a new Moleskine
- Reading list
- My mom reads my blog
- Microsoft Word in schools
- Basic Technical Japanese
- On tutoring
- Education brainstorming
- The Power of the Human Spirit
- Outreach: CompSAt I.T. Literacy Training for Public School Teachers
- Reflections on the lab
- If you throw enough pots, you’ll be a master potter
- Silk-screening workshop
- Divergence
- Learning designers
- Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
- On teaching programming
- Odd things
- On computer science education
- A fun-filled day: part 1. Lunch with Nishida
- National Strategic Planning for ICTs in Basic Education Initiative: A Round Table Discussions
- Learning Links
- Passed JLPT level 3
- Nifty Japanese stuff: Kakasi
- More Emacs evangelization: flashcard
- Japanese flashcards
- More hacks for mangling Japanese CSV
- Japanese word list generator
- Interesting notes from the best practices
- Rough notes on education
- Outline for application essay
- Education versus training — education
- Online books
- E-Learning — education
- Sampizcat, canna and kinput2
