Tag Archive: philosophy

Website heresy: Do something uncomfortable

Yesterday’s video post about why you should give up perfection and start aiming for awesome got some great comments and emails. Thanks! What I learned from shooting the video I’d been planning to make the video for two months. I wrote a mind-map of the points I wanted to make. I bought a new video…

Find new ideas

photo credit: somegeekintn Ideas are tricky little buggers: sometimes you have to step outside of your usual routines to trap the good ones. In the list below, steer away from actions you perform regularly. Try something new and you’ll discover a bunch of new ideas lurking! 1. Buy a book. Buying a book instead of…

Tips On Dealing With Techies: Part One

photo credit: donakeannadoanek3n4an The following is the fruits of seven years or so of having been involved in interviewing and hiring techies, and over ten years of working amongst my own kind and observing. And to clarify, by techies I mean people with specialised computer skills, whether it’s administering servers, developing code for your website,…