In December, following up on an offer by coach Dave Kaiser, I took the Clifton StrengthsFinder online test. Dave recommended the $9.99 version that gives you your top 5 strengths out of a menu of 34. The StrengthsFinder is a 100+ item test that purportedly feeds back those parts of your personality that most dominate …
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In life, as in technical writing: you have to choose
One of the chief rules of tech writing — or at least one of my chief rules — is to not dump into the manual every scrap of information I have on hand. The tech writer’s job is to present, to select, to shape. As with art, it’s not just about what you put in, …
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Let the calendar decide
Oliver Burkeman writes the weekly This Column Will Change Your Life for the UK Guardian. The column is a brief, cheeky, well-researched survey of self-help topics of all sorts, from philosophy to life hacks. Burkeman is himself an author of a self-help book that is on my personal wishlist. He had an interesting confluence of topics recently: one on “triple constraints” …
Two or three things I know for sure, kinda sorta
Musing on a few things I know but that I am still learning are true for me.
Christine Kane, Upleveling, and an updated seminar
In July 2010, I’d made the big decision to leave the PhD program. I was back working part-time at my old job, turning over the strange things I’d experienced. And feeling a bit adrift. The PhD promised a roadmap of sorts, after all, and I’d just balled up that map and thrown it out the …
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