April 2014 Reading List
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1. Darth Plagueis This was actually finished March 31, but I already had the March post written, so I let it bump over to April. Darth Plagueis takes places starting a while before Star Wars Episode I and finishes as Palpatine is elected Supreme Chancellor of the senate. We get to see Palpatine’s master and…
Double Your Freelancing Rate 2 is out
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I don’t often post twice in a day but Double Your Freelancing Rate 2 is out. The first version was where I started when I wanted to charge more. Brennan is awesome and today it’s 20% off all packages. If you want the video interview with me then you’ll need to get one of the…
Avoid 2 seconds of discomfort and waste hundreds of dollars
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Talking about money is hard in every facet of life. When it comes to talking about money, personally, we often equate how much we have in savings or how much debt we have with our own self-worth. Money has nothing to do with our worth, though society leads us to believe otherwise. When it comes…
Reviewing Rework
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Last March, I read another book from Basecamp (formerly 37Signals) called Remote. Well, more accurately, I started it and about 20 pages in I was bored of pithy statements about the state of remote work. So what about Rework, which I had read when it came out and remembered it to be a similar format. Have…
If it’s all important nothing is important
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When I worked in-house last, there was a problem. It’s not something big and shady behind the scenes, like embezzling. No one was stealing as far as I know. The problem was that the leadership said things were important, then never followed that important up with resources. Sure I had a 1 year old iMac…
Forget about the trenches and ruin your team
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One of the things I look forward to as I hire people and start building a bit of a team is not being in the trenches daily. A good business owner should be stepping back to work on the business. That’s how you’re going to keep all those peope employed. There is some danger in…
Are you a poor carpenter like me and blame your tools?
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I wrote before about digital TO-DO lists failing me but as I’ve been reading through GTD again, I’ve been realizing that the carpenter has been blaming his tools. My main complaints about software GTD/TO-DO tools were that they allowed me to put 10,000 things in them on any given day. There was never a good…
Evernote as my GTD tickler
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I like GTD methodology. For a long time OmniFocus was my go to tool for my main list. Now I’ve switched to Redbooth (topic for another post) but I’ve never talked about my ‘tickler’ file. Let’s start by defining what a tickler file is. A tickler file is a collection of date-labeled file folders organized…
Launching SFNdesign’s Agency Site
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My business has always been called SFNdesign I’ve just operated and ‘pushed’ my own name. Later this year I’ll have to incorporate and really I want to move the business to something bigger. You know, a few employees and some larger projects. So I’ve finally finished off SFNdesign.ca. If you’re looking to hire me for WordPress…
One productivity secret that’s small and you already have
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There’s one small thing we each have that if used properly can provide huge productivity gains. It’s small. If you have kids you probably use it regularly already. Can you guess what it is? No? I’ve used it already above. No! Yup that’s right my secret productivity tool is a word. And it’s the word…
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