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.
If I ever time travel back to sometime between 1999 and 2002 to tell myself to buy Apple stock, finding my past self will be really easy. I’ll be at school or within six feet of a Nintendo 64 with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sticking out of the top. To this day, […]
A major component of my job is asynchronously collaborating with other people, usually subject matter experts from whom I need to get additional information or content approval on something I have created. All of my project templates have this approval process built in at the appropriate points. This creates a common challenge: the people I’m […]