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I use a variety of calendars to organize my life, my family, and the many projects and businesses I'm involved with. Most of them use Google Workspace, but at work we use, for some unfathomable reason, Office 365. I run my life by my calendars. There's
This is my 9th public, annual retrospection, where I summarize the past year and set some structure for the coming year. I find it an incredibly useful practice and, since I love reading others' reviews, it's nice to be part of that movement. Previous years: 2011
I do a lot of meetings. Some are more useful than others. A sure way to make a meeting needlessly useless, however, is when I disregard my notes for it; either the ones I write in order to prepare for the meeting, or the ones I write during the meeting.
A while ago, I wrote about how I'm starting a business and with which criteria I'm entering that journey. A month has passed, and I wanted to give an update on that! Specifically, I want to share why I'm deliberately not building anything right
Last year I read a series of book on personal finance, some of which made quite an impact on my life. Especially Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Psychology of Money (also The Richest Man in Babylon , to some extent). What I like about reading a suite of books on
I'm currently exploring the world of podcasting, with the goal of starting one myself in the near future. Having consumed them for ages, I want to check out the other side of it. There's a jungle of different podcast tools out there and I had to
Previous years: 2011 , 2012 , 2015 , 2016 , 2019 , 2020 , 2022 . What went well this year? What didn’t go so well this year? What did I learn? What am I working toward? 1) What went well this year? I read a lot of really good books My goal was a
One of the areas for improvement I brought up in my 2022 review was finances. I have very specific goals for my family's financial future and, in order to reach those goals, we'll have to optimize three aspects of our finances: earning, spending, and investing. It&
You’re most likely reading this because I sent you the link here. Let me start by thanking you for your message and apologize for this admittedly weird response. I get a lot of messages, emails, phone calls, etc from people who want to help me recruit. While I
With 1,513 books on my to-read list, I have to be selective about my picks. Thankfully, I've got a very specific process for doing just that!
In this seventh(!) annual review, I go through the good and bad of the past year and the promises for next year.
Even Go is subject to the laws of reality and has its share of weaknesses to balance its strengths. These are the ones I most often bump into.
I began writing publically back in 2010 and while my writing has continued virtually uninterrupted since then, it has changed profoundly in this time.