Last week was a high-energy week. Tuesday was networking-intensive: a breakfast meeting, a major presentation, and a speed-mentoring event. On Thursday, I had lunch with an IBMer in order to give him career advice (!). On Friday, I had lunch with an acquaintance who’s planning to go to the Philippines, and I hosted a friend [...]
In preparation for Neko's arrival (and to protect W-'s leather couch from the adventures of soon-to-be-three cats), we decided to make a sofa wrap. The two layers were a bit much, so we thought we'd try making just the underlayer.
The Internet said that microsuede's pricey, but probably the best fabric you can get for a [...]
Influenced by the work of Hargrove, most coaching today fits within one of five categories:
Expert coaching: building skills, competencies, and knowledge;
Pattern coaching: revealing old patterns and building new patterns of belief and behavior;
Transformative coaching: fostering a fundamental shift in point of view, values, and identity;
Transcendent coaching: comprehending purpose;
Integrative coaching: blending the depth of personal (inside-out) [...]
Here’s how we’re thinking of using the raised beds we built. I might interplant some radishes between the tomatoes and strawberries, too.
Peas: The edamame I grew in a pot could really use more space. We’ll plant sugar snap peas and edamame after we put in some support.
Tomatoes: Cherry or grape tomatoes, which we’ll [...]
Here are some things I change right away in my Inkscape settings:
Double-click on the pencil tool, and choose “Last used style”.
Draw something, then click on the fill color box. Choose X for fill.
Switch to the Stroke style tab. Select a rounded joint and a rounded cap.
Open File > Inkscape Preferences. Click on Transforms. Uncheck [...]
Yesterday, I gave my Remote Presentations That Rock session at the IBM Technical Leadership Exchange virtual conference. 98 people attended and shared their insights with me through a lively text discussion, lots of whiteboard interaction, and the occasional phone question. It was a high-energy presentation – I poured lots into it, and people gave me [...]
One of the hidden gems in David Gillespie’s Digital Strangelove: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet is a hat-tip to Compfight, a Flickr search engine. I like the search interface more than Flickr’s built-in Advanced Search, because you can continuously scroll through the thumbnails instead of paging through the results.
More [...]
I misplace things when I get distracted. I absentmindedly tuck things into bag pockets or place them on the nearest horizontal surface. I lose time looking for things, and my stress level goes up too. It’s usually my iPod Touch that gets forgotten when I need free hands, and I can’t ring it to find [...]
Was it really only less than two years ago that I shifted from my venerable Planner-based wiki/blog to my Wordpress-powered one after experimenting with syndicating my entries into Wordpress?
I miss writing in wiki markup on Emacs and knowing that publishing would Just Work. I miss being able to dynamically expand entries from my address book [...]
The best talent embodies the five core values and has the right combination of aptitude, skill, judgment, passion, and drive. Such people’s curiosity and openness to new experience are as important as their pedigree. They require deep understanding to garner respect, a sense of infectious excitement to rally the organization around them, and an almost [...]
