Thinking in Public blog

Some conversations are much harder to have than others. I have quite a few books on communication and some specifically on difficult conversations, but I had not quite thought of…

Star Wars occupied most of my childhood. The original film was released when I was 5 years old and, after seeing that, Luke Skywalker, tie fighters and Wookies consumed the…

The other day I finally solved a mystery that has been plaguing me for weeks. I had not lost sleep over it, but it was starting to feel like a…

You may have a bit more time on your hands these days. If you are looking for something to do – and if you like superheroes or comics (and why…

I have never liked messing around with my carefully curated windows in Windows 10. Like many things in my life, I have spent time getting them just the way I…

It is a productivity/personal development cliche by now to talk about focusing on the things that matter most and not to get caught up in the busyness of life. This…

Someone mentioned in a podcast I was listening to this morning that perfectionism can be reframed as laziness. As in I am too lazy to do the hard work involved…

We may try to do what we think is best for someone else, but not realize that this might actually be imposing our assumptions onto them. Derek Sivers put it…

Yeah, I said it, I love Derek Sivers. More specifically, I love the work he does and how he does it. He is a thoughtful, deep thinker, great writer, world…

I don’t know if you are regular/avid listeners of the Focused podcast, but the last episode was utter gold in my books. It was all about their use of calendars…

Thoughts come and go. I try to write down many of them. I tell my dear wife, son, friends and family ad nauseam of my latest ponderings. I have developed…