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- March 15, 2007
I’m a Twitter
March 15, 2007Read moreThere was a lot of talk about Twitter at SXSW this year. Though the concept seemed trivial and useless to me when I first heard of it, it does do one thing very well: closeness through shared environmental context. A big part of friendship is just hanging out and doing things together without direct communication. You can learn a lot about someone by just watching what they’re doing; Twitter is a kind of virtual version of that.
So here’s my Twitter profile…I’m going to give this a try for a couple weeks and see what happens. The theory is that I might feel like I’m part of a tribe.
- March 15, 2007
Concrete Goals Tracker for Small Business
March 15, 2007Read more
The Printable CEO and Compact Calendar were recently mentioned in HVACRBUSINESS, a trade magazine covering management issues relevant to the heating/venting/air conditioning industry (HVAC). Cool! This is the first time that any piece of the PCEO has appeared in an actual printed magazine, so I’m very tickled. Plus, I find HVAC interesting because it’s one of those hidden pieces of infrastructure that we aren’t usually aware of; flipping through the magazine is a glimpse into a secret world known only to its practitioners. I love learning about stuff like that.
What’s particularly interesting is that HVACRBUSINESS made their own list of “Worth Doing” rules for HVAC business owners. I volunteered a custom version of the CGT because I thought it might be cool.
- March 14, 2007
Interview on Zen Habits
March 14, 2007Read moreLeo of Zen Habits recently interviewed me via email, which has just been posted on his website. Thanks Leo! He’s been building toward a lot of great personal goals, and in the process of learning has been providing advice on how to achieve them. Very cool!
- March 13, 2007
SXSW Tuesday: Finishing Well
March 13, 2007Read moreI’m trying to think of a way to summarize the last day of SXSW07 Interactive. The phrase that comes to mind that it was a day of rededication. After four solid days of panels, a certain path is becoming clearer, and everyone I met today seemed to play a part in the journey. I’ll likely write more about this once I get back home, and have had some time to reread what I’ve been posting over the past few days. I apologize for the raw quality of the posts; they are intended to serve as placeholders for my emotional response to the panels, which I am unlikely to remember in detail after a day.
Today was a pretty random day, as I hadn’t really planned what panels I would attend. I again repeated my strategy of eschewing the more straightforward web development and design panels for the ones about people and content creation.
- March 12, 2007
SXSW Monday: Hitting My Stride, Finally
March 12, 2007Read moreAnother quiet day, and yet I’m just starting to feel like I’m getting comfortable and hitting my stride. Maybe it’s because today pretty much focused on going to things that I thought were interesting, and asked people questions when I was curious about something. There’s a certain level of socializing I’m comfortable with, and I’ve decided to just let that happen. The entire morning went by without me meeting anyone I knew, which is understandable since I have been going to the weirder panels related to open source, community building, storytelling, and digital convergence.
