I was recently contacted by someone to contribute to a project they’re working on. It was a well-connected and well-respected person whose work I’ve followed for years, so naturally I was quite excited by the inquiry.
The initial email was a bit sparse — describing the project in just a couple sentences — and while it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Learning'
Questions show passion, not doubt
May 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Consulting, Pain
Can Leadership Be Learned?
March 6th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Consulting, Strategy
The words both start with L-E-A, but can leadership really be learned?
As a consultant, I have the pleasure and challenge to work with a variety of different teams. I am a team of one, but I collaborate with agency teams (such as Happy Cog, whom I’m working with on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum project), [...]
UIE Virtual Seminar with Tamara Adlin: Ad-Hoc Personas
February 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Education
User Interface Engineering (UIE) hosts wonderful virtual seminars every month on a variety of UX-related topics. This month was no exception. Tamara Adlin, a user experience consultant based in Seattle, WA, put together a smart and practical presentation titled, The Power of Ad Hoc Personas: Truly Practical Methods to Get Your Organization On the Same [...]
Using Twitter for Friend Advice
January 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Twitter
I ask questions on Twitter all the time on a wide variety of topics, and I usually get really useful responses — but never as many as when I ask about interpersonal issues.
A little while ago I posed this question:
“What do you do when someone you really care about won’t respond to your emails & [...]
Pleasure and Pain turns 2
January 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Blogging
I started this blog two years ago on January 10, 2008 with a post titled, Genesis. I didn’t know at the time just how fitting a word it was. It truly marked the beginning of my re-creation.
Since then I’ve published 447 posts (including this one), received 1,491 comments, and had 159,031 unique visitors.
The stats [...]
