There’s an old story in the productivity world, about a professor with a jar and rocks and gravel and sand, and the punch line is that if you don’t put the big rocks into the jar first, there won’t be room for them later, after you add the sand and gravel. Easy to say; we’ve […]
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Levels of planning
I wrote the post about big rocks and 30,000 foot views yesterday. This morning, I started thinking about what specifically happens at each of these levels. I thought there was a blog post in it, so I made a sketch of the collage of pictures that were attached to the post, and let myself think. […]
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On a Clear Day
I live between two rivers, not far from two substantial lakes, one of which cools a nuclear power plant. As a result, we get fog. Not fog like San Francisco, but reliable fog in the morning when the seasons are changing and air, land, and water may have substantially different temperatures. Today was a foggy […]
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Use More Pictures in Linkedin
In the process of building a course called “Have Fun with Linkedin,” I realized that LI lets you add pictures everywhere: summary, each position, projects. Few of us use this feature as much as we could. In one class I taught, students even questioned the value of a professional photographer uploading pictures of his work. […]
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Organizing my websites
I run four websites for my own business activities: Red Tuxedo, where I talk about productivity and being useful in social media Rugs from Rags, where I write about making textile art Karen Tiede Studio, where I sell my Textile Art Karen Tiede.com, where I write about all the other artsy things I do for […]
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I want all the days
My new year-view planner arrived yesterday and spent the day rolled out on the floor being flattened. Before I went outside to exercise this morning, I pinned it to the door across from my desk, so it would be there when I came back into write. Now, I’m sitting at my desk, with the calendar […]
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Surprise! Metrics & Leadership are Social Sciences
I’m working on cleaning up blog categories across three websites. In order to standardize what I write, I’m using the Dewey Decimal system as my guideline. I’m almost done with the third site; still had to shoehorn posts attributed to either “metrics” or “leadership” into some category, and thought it would be a finer division […]
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Ramp Class
When Nigel had to go to the vet last week with what turned out to be a slipped disk in his neck, I had to lift him in and out of the truck three times. 70# of screaming Labrador is a hard lift. I remembered the ramp later, but he’d never used it and had […]
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Review: How Much Should I Charge?
Pricing Basics for Making Money Doing What You Love Writing this review in part to respond to the person who said the 5-star people must be family members. Not at all. Simply people who perhaps didn’t take a business course in high school (do they have those courses now?), or didn’t understand accounting as it […]
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What now, part 2
What do I know today? Thoughts on the Women’s March It was much bigger than I expected. Perhaps it was much bigger than anyone expected. Oceans of pink hats around the world, in cities everywhere. Why were Australian women marching to protest Trump? We are upset. There is a lot of discontent, fear, anger, emotional […]
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