Tag: Smith
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Who is speaking about Craft and Craftsmanship at the AION CONFERENCE in December?
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I’ll be speaking about Craft and Craftsmanship at AIONCON in December. My talk and a bunch of others will be available online. Stay tuned for more details including how to register.
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What’s the Best Advice for Men?
A while back I reviewed a book by my friend Bill Masur. Now he’s running an online conference. It’s free and it’s all about the best advice for men. No lie.
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How can I use Twitter to grow my audience and sell stuff?
Since I’ve widened my scope in my writing including here on this blog, I’ve really been digging into Twitter. Facebook, I generally despise. Although, I keep using it to stay in touch with a few friends and family who don’t use anything else. Instagram, I do like. But I kinda have a love/hate relationship with…
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Read the Book of Uncomfortable Truths (But Only 1f You Wanna Get Triggered)
How about some uncomfortable truths? Bill Masur – @futureinmindd – has written a controversial book. And I’m kinda impressed because it started out as a series of controversial tweets which he then turned into his book. It was a cool and interesting process which I watched happening in real time. *** NEWSFLASH *** Get a…
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How Can I Learn To Write Better?
How do you teach yourself to write better? The rules aren’t hard but you don’t get better without actually writing. Here’s my take: Rule #1: Good writing is a kind of fitness… so try and think of it as such This means that you need to build your writing muscles in the same way that…
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I’m thinking of starting a podcast
I have this idea for a podcast. It’s an experiment… The idea is that what people think other people are interested in is often wrong. And that ordinary people are actually more interesting than you think. And therefore not actually ordinary. The flipside is that even if you think you’re not actually an interesting person,…
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What is agile? Part 4 – The spike
Here’s one more thing from the Agile Fundamentals course I did with my Auckland University Executive Education whanau. This part was a good takeaway in practical terms. It is something that is called a spike. A risk-based spike is kind of a proof of concept. It is a prototype, a real-time experiment of what you…
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What is agile? Part 3 – The Pareto principle
Here’s the third thing I learned from my recent Agile Fundamentals course at the University of Auckland with Steven Briggs. The Pareto principle is the 80/20 ratio that we sometimes hear about in time management. In this context, it’s a reminder to not overload people. In a nutshell, rather than working to a 100% productivity…
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What is agile? Part 2 – Context switching and switching costs
Here’s the second thing I learned from my recent Agile Fundamentals course at the University of Auckland with Steven Briggs. This is about what they call context switching and switching costs. Here’s a couple of questions: Is it better to be doing one project versus doing a whole lot of projects? In other words, are…
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Three months without pants: This is Graeme and the future of werk.
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Further disruption underway. Stay tuned.