Show your work
In grade school, I got into a lot of trouble with my math teacher because I didn’t show my work. I wrote the right answer, but I didn’t show the intermediate steps because I was doing a lot of it in my head. After lots of missed points on tests, I eventually got the idea. I needed to show my work...
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Find your wall
The Sewing Hype Cycle
(Apologies to Gartner )
I like sewing because it frustrates me.
I start optimistically enough. I pick out a pattern. I choose fabric. I tweak the pattern. I cut out pieces. I start sewing them together.
Seams don’t quite line up. Threads break. Pins prick. I hit my lowest...
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Large team challenges
What collaboration challenges do large teams face? Here are the key problems I often hear from people, organized in a rough flow of how teams encounter them within each category. Can you help me improve this list?
Assets and knowledge
Large attachments: People feel this particularly strongly in IBM...
Source: sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek
Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101
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Next actions:
Post notes
Practice with podcasts, webcasts, books, and teleconferences
Collect symbols
Develop a visual vocabulary
Three hours on one page!
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Fall down intentionally
We had circled the ice twice. Hadn’t fallen yet, just wobbled about in the way beginners do.
Mel stopped. She flopped down. “Might as well get it over with,” she said.
Sounded like a great idea, so I did.
Skating got a lot easier after that.
Fall down intentionally. Get your fear out, then go.
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Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life
Text:Drawing by Seeing (John Torreano) made me think about drawing in a completely different way.Instead of starting with a line that gets distorted because you can’t see properly and that makes you run out of space because you hadn’t planned for the big picture, start with a shape that you gradually...
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Learning how to write
Text:
I want to write better so that I can learn and share even more. I outsourced editing so that I could get an idea of what “better” looked like. The first editor couldn’t think of how to significantly improve what I sent her. Maybe I’ve hit the “good enough” gap. But improvement isn’t...
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Trying out visual notetaking at a workshop
The more I draw, the easier and more fun it gets.
I helped facilitate a client workshop last week. During one of the exercises, the lead facilitator took notes on an easel. I needed to make a copy of the notes so that we could build on the results in a breakout session. I thought I’d experiment with...
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Thinking about my personal learning environment
I was thinking about what I learn and how I learn it.
Experience
Blogs
Books
Communities
Mentors
Classes
Life
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Web 2.0
Medium
High
High
High
Medium
Presentation
High
Medium
High
Medium
Medium
Drupal
High
Low
Medium
Emacs
High
Low
Medium
Organizational...
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Drawing is about seeing the magic in everyday things
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Check out my blog for tips on managing virtual assistants, Drupal, and other topics!Drawing is about seeing the magic in everyday things
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