Reading Time: < 1 min For the past four weeks, I’ve been taking Seth Godin’s altMBA and I’m finding Roam Research to be a huge benefit as I work through it. Here’s a quick video showing how I use Roam Research to help with it: If you have more questions about Roam Research or the altMBA, feel free to leave […]
Speeding up this blog
Reading Time: 2 min Over the past day, I’ve done a few things to speed up the load time of this site. It wasn’t particularly slow to begin with, but these changes should help make it a bit snappier. Here’s a before and after of the speed scores for the site: Hosting The biggest change I made was with […]
A quick agenda beats no agenda
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s been true for decades, and with everyone forced to switch to Zoom for the past year it hasn’t changed much — meetings without a clear agenda are often a complete waste of time. While we have solid agendas for many of our meetings, there are times when we don’t have a chance to put […]
Thinking through “A Brighter Web”
Reading Time: < 1 min We’ve been running various aspect of A Brighter Web, an educational arm of our agency, for quite a while now. We’ve hosted our Meetup every month (sometimes more) for about nine years now, we have a reasonably active Facebook group, and we’ve played with podcasting and other media. So what’s next? To be honest, I’m […]
“Designed by” is a big red flag
Reading Time: 2 min It’s generally not a good idea for a web designer to put a “designed by” link in the footer of websites that they create, and they usually know it too. The main reason is Google; putting that link down there will hurt the site that it’s on. It’s a tiny amount, but it’ll still hurt. […]
Sonder, Ponder, Wonder
Reading Time: < 1 min I mentioned the concept of sonder recently, in my post about how there are only protagonists. As I mentioned in that post: Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours. Here is a great (short) video that explains it […]
1,000 days of Anki
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve been using Anki for about five years now. I started using it a bit in late 2015 and wrote about it a year later. In short, it’s essentially just a flashcard app for your computer and phone, and it works exceptionally well. If you’re interested in how it works, this post from last April […]
A few more benefits of a standing desk
Reading Time: < 1 min I shared recently that I set up a new standing desk in my home office. I’ve adjusted the setup a little bit since then, but it’s 90% the same. However, in my time using it I’ve noticed a few great unexpected advantages. It’s somewhere different While I enjoy changing actual working venues from time to […]
Why do I care if your company is 50 years old?
Reading Time: 2 min Why do I care if your company is 50 years old? I don’t, really. At least not yet. Yet many websites continue to lead with something like that at the front of their site. When a users visits your site for the first time, they don’t care about you — they just want to know […]
Design everything you do
Reading Time: < 1 min While I would never be considered a designer, I’m always looking for ways to improve how I think about the world around me. I found a great example in an old blog post I was reading (the post is not available, but you can see it using archive.org here) where this concept came up: Design […]