Writing with the wolves
I restrain myself from writing often about writing – I’m too junior at the task to contend with the…
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Essay: Writing hacks (hacks on writing), Part 1
The series of O’Reilly hacks books is tons of fun. Despite how you don’t want to hear about hacks…
How to get people to read a blog post
Copyblogger offers good advice on writing blog and other headlines with 10 sure-fire headline formulas that work. And athough…
Tricks for writing: book darts
For years I was a notorious page corner folder. I’d mark corners of passages I needed for research with…
The motherlode of book writing statistics
I know some of you read this blog because I’m a guy you sort of know who wrote a…
A year in the life of a book: a summary
My first book was published almost a year ago – While no one can predict book sales, that hasn’t…
Best of Berkun
Essay #50 will be published today – Its been 6 years of writing these things, first for MSDN, then…
The life goal: writing books
The author page in the back of The art of project management Making Things Happen has this photo. This represents…
Manifestos for your mind
ChangeThis is back – they’ve been publishing short essays meant to inspire change and provoke new thinking. In the…
ArtofPM #2 on Amazon.com best seller list
Update: ArtofPM, the book described below, was released in an updated edition called Making Things Happen that you should buy…
New essay: How to survive a bad manager
Ever have a manager you couldn’t stand or thought was incompotent? Then this essay is for you: How to…
Slashdotted
Slashdotted over the weekend
Lessons learned: radio interview
Ok – here’s my notes from my first radio interview experience. I was on air for about 15 minutes…
New Essay: Why you must lead or follow
Latest essay is all about leaders, followers and specatators (or complainers) and why knowing where you stand and acting…
Day 3: Macromedia & Automobiles
Made two mistakes: 1) left power cable at Google. 2) Left lights on rental car. The loss of the…
Day 2: Social event: Faultline brewery
Just for fun, purely for the sake of experiment, I invited everyone I spoke with out to drinks at…
Day 2: speaking at Yahoo (Wed may 11th)
I arrived at Yahoo’s building D at 3:30 – right on time for my 4pm talk. Everything inside was…
Day 2: Speaking at Google
Stayed up late tuesday night working on slides for a half day at google . During the baychi talk,…
Book Tour Day 1 report
Day 1 – Tuesday, May 10th. Started not as expected – tripped getting out of the shower, dodged the…
The start of rank checking..
I’m well aware of how misleading these kinds of rankings are, but apparently the book is currently listed on…