Entries by Mike

The Meeting Gauntlet

Surprisingly, no one I have ever worked with has canceled a meeting unless there was a significant attendance issue. Meetings have inertia that people seem afraid to impede as if the default position of the working universe is to have meetings. I argue that the opposite is true.

Learn OmniFocus Session

Spear phishing is when you get a researched, prepared, and targeted email specifically crafted to fool you, the addressee. This is not a Nigerian prince type email; this is a focused attack by an artist. Receiving one is a bad sign. It means a bad person has taken significant time out of multiple days to […]

Reconcilable Differences

This is the podcast I like the most but have the worst sale pitch for. If you like hearing two late-middle-aged white guys talk about parenting, life, work, and technology, this is the show for you!

Peak Design Tech Pouch

One of my biggest pet peeves of traveling is the night I get home, and I have to plug in my phone and watch on my nightstand. The cables are in my suitcase somewhere, and now I have to go hunting for them, and I just want to get to sleep, That is, until a […]

My Morning Routine

I like magic tricks as much as the next person, but I usually find effective magic tricks to be frustrating. I know there is a trick; some secret, technique, or special tool that lets the magician perform the trick. The trick is effective because I don’t know how it works, and it frustrates me that […]