Category: Links of Interest
The Word Diversity Makes White People Feel Better
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I’ve intentionally tried to stay fairly quiet on diversity talk online. Not because I don’t have any thoughts, but because I’m a white dude and am not sure I have much constructive to add at this point. I have a feeling that I still need to read and listen to what others are saying (not…
Marcus on No Bad Hires
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Marcus on “bad hires” It’s sure easy to point fingers at a bad hire, especially after they’re gone. And while this is comfortable, it robs us of opportunities to improve our team, tools, environment, and process. Maybe there aren’t any ‘bad hires,’ similar to the idea of ‘no bad dogs’ or ‘no bad kids.’ Maybe…
The Difference Between What You Have and What You Spend
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Derek Sivers on budgeting…really. It’s not how much you have. It’s the difference between what you have and what you spend. If you have more than you spend, you’re rich. If you spend more than you have, you’re not. If you live cheaply, it’s easy to be free. While I earn decently, I do end…
Chris’ Cost to Leave Google Behind
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My friend Chris breaks down what it has cost him to leave Google behind as he looks for a more open web. The point of this all is, De-Googling isn’t cheap even before one considers the knowledge and experience required to do so. Given this, how then do those of us who want to promote…
Own Your Domain and Tend Your Garden
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Own your own domain and tend your garden. Cross-post to Twitter or Facebook if you must, but own your turf and tend your garden. Now that you can register your own domain name at micro.blog you have no excuse: it’s easy-peasy. I’d add to this that if you’re writing a Twitter thread, it should be…
Crocs Save the Day
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This is just purely funny for your day. Crocs as climbing shoes. I also love it because I too wear crocs for 10 years as my winter slippers because they’re warmer than my flip flops which are summer slippers. Found it on Adventure Journal.
Quitting a Freelance Gig
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Seth Godin on quitting a freelance gig: A powerful thing a freelancer can do for her career is to figure out when to fire the bad clients. Firing bad clients is an essential step on the way to finding better ones. He ends with some great questions you need to ask yourself as you get…
Pair Hard Work With Corrective Action to Win
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Chase Parnell reminds us to pair effort with analysis of how things could be done better next time. Now sure, working hard is admirable, but there are a lot of people out there that work their ass off but never progress to the next level because they don’t take that critical next step of pairing…
Does Your Work Show Your Values?
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From Derek Sivers: Once you realize that one value is more important to you than another, you have to ask yourself if you’re living accordingly A great question I’ve been asking myself lately. Is the work I’m pushing forward on conforming to the values I have? Does it allow me the time I want to…
One Action Shortcuts
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One action shortcuts from Rosemary Orchard. I can’t tell you how much Shortcuts has automated in my work…actually I can. Every time I am on macOS and don’t have Shortcuts I feel handicapped. There are a very few things that macOS is better for. Browsing CSS selectors in web developer tools being one of them.…