I’m so bad at spelling that I’m actually better at grammar; using a semicolon is easier than remembering whether I comes before E. As a result of my terrible spelling and tendency to avoid frustration, I’ve been trying to dictate my writing since middle school. If you’ve ever wondered how many children gleefully received Dragon […]
I have some pretty good systems for capturing action items; maybe they are too good. Pair that with the fact that no matter how solid my weekly review feels, it’s easy to skip the next one. Pretty quickly, the inputs outpace the outputs, and like the second page of Google search results, there are corners […]
I am excited to be giving my first conference presentation since 2017 at the Macstock Conference and Expo next month! The workshop will help attendees create automated systems for their creative projects: both purposeful folder structures and project management workflows that actually get the work done. I was interviewed on the MacVoices podcast, which you […]
The human brain sitting in your skull today didn’t evolve to process bullet points and data tables. It descended from ancestors who survived the harshest conditions on Earth without a single written manual. They passed critical knowledge from generation to generation through stories around fires, tales of where to find food, which plants could heal, […]
Growing up, I spent countless hours recording Good Eats episodes for my mom to use in her high school cooking classes. Beyond the science and humor, one concept from the show profoundly influenced my approach to work: mise en place, which is the practice of getting everything in place before you begin.