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A Tana Tour
Tana – My Honest Initial Impressions
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Keep a Journal? Get Smarter by Revisiting Old Entries.
On Writing
Fiction: Beasts of Union County
Original fiction and illustrations by Mark McElroy Three days before she died, Addie Mae’s doctor…
Keep a Journal? Get Smarter by Revisiting Old Entries.
Do you keep a journal? I started keeping a hand-written journal in the tenth grade,…
Using Readwise.io Daily Highlights as Random Journaling Prompts
This week, I began toying with a new, experimental morning journaling practice — just to…
Good Advice on Writing About Me Pages
Before creating my 2022 About Me page for this site, I decided to sharpen my…
Productivity
Domains, Tensions, and Experiments: An Alternative to Setting Goals
I’m done with setting goals. Instead, I’m organizing my life and work using a system of domains, tensions, and experiments. Domains are broad areas of sustained interest or focus: the…
Meetings that Matter
Most of our meetings used to be “work pageants.” First: the parade of PowerPoint slides. Then: the endless report-outs and updates, which spawned conversations, which plummeted down rabbit holes. We…
Meaningful Meetings Start with Check-in Questions
Starting meetings with check-in questions is one of the most powerful tools for changing how we relate to each other. So why are check-in questions also the first new way…
How We Meet Reveals Who We Are
At work, a set of “meeting moves” is changing how we meet: Appointing moderators and scribes. One person steers; the other notes what we did and what agreements we made.Starting…
Shifting from Dabbler to Doer
I’ve always been a magpie of ideas. I’m drawn to the new, the bright, the shiny. I scoop these ideas up and carry them back to my nest. The result?…