There are 96 15 minute intervals in a day
(photo by ) How busy are you, really? A day starts with 96 15 minute-long sections – you have a limited number of these in your day – and you are not going to be 100% available during all of…
There should be an App for a Personal API
There Should Be An App For That Apps and websites (and features) are becoming single function, best-of-breed experiences. And in the future (and the present) customers want to knit them back together into a mix-up of their own creation.…
5 Steps to Surviving and Thriving in Startup Life
On Climbing the Startup Mountain Life in a startup is a non-stop business. Whether you are aware of it or not, your work-life balance suffers, your relationships are strained, and your personal health and motivation may waver. Yet it’s…
We Need to Teach Digital Citizenship
How can we establish a local and national effort to better prepare young people to participate online? They need to learn how to identify and use tools; understand and model behavior that won’t embarrass their parents or themselves unless they…
The hard thing about realizing it’s a hard thing
If you haven’t already picked up Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, you should. When I started to read Ben’s book, I thought that I already knew many of the things he would share, and that the…
Write out the list of things you need to do
You should do more writing when you’re thinking about the list of things you need to do. I wrote this list in longhand. That may seem strange in a world where we type practically everything, and I find it a…
This year, I learned to write
This year I learned how to be a writer. The easy part was deciding to start. The hard part was continuing to write. I don’t mean that any individual piece of writing was hard to start, or hard to finish.…
Measure your day. It might surprise you.
Which daily tasks are important? We all have a routine. Whether it is checking email, talking to office mates over morning coffee, or going to the gym, we organize our lives into a series of rituals to make sense of…
We need digital citizens
It seems like every day you hear a story on the radio about iPads being furnished to high school kids or read a piece about kids and selfies. There seems to be much less discussion about the effort to reach…
