Workflows Before Rainbows

I think about this a lot, actually.

“Nobody ran up and asked me to hold an empty cup.”

Today I unsubscribed from a bunch of newsletters.

I’m sitting with Alice Sparkly Kat’s February newsletter.

Today is my 6-month Pika blog anniversary!

Today I set up 1Password, Kagi, and Fastmail exactly the way I wanted them across three different browsers.

I sent the link to this blog to a handful of friends yesterday.

A good strategy defines a critical challenge.

Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us.

I’ve just finished redoing my website, and I’m thrilled for it to become a container for my various projects.

And maybe that’s why I’m struggling to figure out where I want my online life to take place.

I’ve been cheating on you, Pika.

I haven’t written for myself in a long time.

I’ve missed writing here.

When was the last time you explained something to someone?

I have too many thoughts this evening.

I spent a shocking amount of time thinking about websites lately.

I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast.

Zoe Chance’s Influence is Your Superpower hooked me in the first few pages.

Verlyn Klinkenborg thinks we’re wrong about sentences.

I loved Robin Rendle’s piece—what might you even call a presentation like this?

Today I found myself awash in a sea of shoulds.

https://ismy.blue/ Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis?

Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the lis…

Photo by Nic Wood: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bright-microchip-with-red-light-6432056/ In slide:ology, a book that deserves its own post, Nancy Duarte writes that Cisco, the computer systems company, created a set of icons in the 1980s for describing se…