Posts tagged with Productivity
Appreciation for Spreadsheets
The managerial stereotypes aren't far off the mark. I hate to admit it, but the vast majority of the time spent managing software engineers—when not synchronously communicating with people in-person—is asynchronously communicating with people through emails…
Strategic Paper
30 years in, and the electronic revolution that would bring about the end of scribing on dead timber seems to be perpetually another three decades away, if it even still exists as a goal for most people and offices. The…
Piles of Past Work Notes
Lists of accomplishments at work are a useful exercise, both for performance reviews in the moment, but also for posterity[1] years after the fact. Through a variety of employers, roles, and even note-taking apps, I’ve compiled a set…
Life Organization as a Wiki
Once in a while—inspired by company intranets and wiki pages—I get the thought in my head that the same level of organization should be applied to my life overall. With most the information needed to adult (e.g.…
I Built my own Financial Planning Spreadsheet
I'm a personal finance geek. Starting with Mint and their budgeting tools and having moved on to Personal Capital for their investment tracking, I appreciate understanding where my money is coming and going, both in terms of "…
Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
Solving communication with clever tooling is akin to buying into a get-rich-quick scheme. I’d like to think most of us recognize that good communication in itself is hard , but I do think a lot of us want to believe…
