Why We Love Sociopaths: Interview
Last week I reviewed the book Why We Love Sociopaths: a guide to late capitalist television and I enjoyed it…
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How to get your name in my books
A few weeks ago I asked for photos of Mindfire out in the world. I promised to include their…
Learning from how Mindfire was made
To help celebrate the launch of Mindfire 1.1 (free for 48 hours), here’s a round up of the many…
Making Things Happen: Kindle edition news
I’ve heard a handful of reports of issues with the Kindle edition of Making Things Happen. I talked to…
Get Mindfire 1.1 Free for the next 48 hours
Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds is a collection of my best and most provocative essays. It’s short, fast,…
Blame the speaker or the organizer?
Linda at Cook for Good asked me about Godin’s recent post Communication is a path, not an event: The other…
Tomorrow get Mindfire 1.1 for free
The revised 1.1 edition of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds is finally finished. More than 100 typos, fixes…
Why you can’t ignore Big Data
I’ve known Phil Simon since college and he’s one of the only people I’ve known that long that’s taken…
Why We Love Sociopaths: Book Review
The other day I saw some high school students in a coffeeshop, and on the table was a book…
How to design a great book cover (Behind the scenes)
The 1.1 edition of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, a collection of my best essays, was officially released.…
Simple isn’t always good
[Originally published March, 2013 as The No UI debate is Rubbish, a reference to a once trendy concept that…
Mindfire 1.1 Launch: Wednesday 3/20 – help wanted
An updated edition of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, with more than 100 fixes, typo corrections and other…
Why schedules help even when they’re wrong
In an HBR article called The Dirty Secret of Project Management, the author claims the secret is no one…
Upcoming speaking engagements near you (Bellevue, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego)
Here are a few speaking engagements over the next few weeks: April 1st, Bellevue, 6:30pm, Microsoft Retail Store (details)…
The Top Women Innovators of All Time
Historical note: a disturbing element of history is its unfairness to women. The majority of our most famous inventors…
A class full of The Myths of Innovation
Many universities use The Myths of Innovation in courses on entrepreneurship or creativity, but David Burkus lined up his…
What work traditions need to go away?
One theme of my book The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work, is questioning aging work…
Grand summary of posts on Remote work & Yahoo
With my upcoming book about my experience at WordPress.com, where everyone works from home, I’ve been following the Yahoo announcement closely.…
In Defense of Remote work (and Marissa Mayer)
Recently Yahoo CEO Marrisa Mayer decreed that working from home would be banned at the company. In a company…
How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
[post updated 1/9/18, originally posted 2/2013] One common question about The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of…