Here’s my plan for my various online activities:
The Everyday Cafe will be expanded beyond its focus on cooking to include all aspects of family life. I miss momblogging but don’t want to create a new blog for it and don’t want to do it here, since this site has typically been more professionally oriented.
I am […]
How do you find high performance in your work life without burning out? That’s what I’ve been wondering after I crashed at the end of last year. After two months of nonstop work and work-related worry, I couldn’t continue. So I arranged to take a mini-sabbatical.
I first needed immediate stress relief, but I also wanted […]
In December, I received Dr. Susan L. Reid’s Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Journey to Business Success for review and was invited to join in the virtual book tour planned by WME Books. Although normally I might not have agreed, there was something about this book and the timing as it came into […]
I’ve arranged a mini-sabbatical for myself. I’ve stepped back from GigaOM writing and will be writing for Web Worker Daily on a less frequent schedule than I had been.
At the end of December, I was sick and tired, partially from viruses my girls brought home from school but mostly from stress. I needed to make […]
For me, 2007 was an experience in living at the border. I tried out industry analysthood web-style with RedMonk (thanks James, Steve, and Cote’). I worked as the editor of Web Worker Daily soon after it launched. I wrote a book about how the web changes work even as I experienced that radical change in […]
I was fascinated to read on the Oracle AppsLab blog that they’re experimenting with a bullpen-style layout in Building 300, where I used to work. My greatest day at Oracle was when I achieved my own office. Cubicles were bad enough, but bullpens? Personally, I want more separation and privacy than that.
I wrote it up […]
I’m wrapping up the manuscript for Connect!, Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working. The manuscript will be done by Friday — at least ready for production and copy editing — and so I’m transitioning over into the promotion phase. I know this phase will likely be as or more difficult than […]
The Internet is the introvert’s best friend, because you can show up at all the right places without ever leaving home. You don’t have to deal with crowds or small talk or even brushing your teeth, though I did indeed brush my teeth multiple times today.
I’m wondering if the key to promoting your work online […]
What is the critical ingredient in the performance of virtual teams? It’s not communication; it’s trust. Trust mediates the relationship between communication and performance. In the absence of trust, more communication will not help your virtual team function better. Here’s a PowerPoint describing some of the relevant research.
Why is trust so important to the functioning […]
Today I’m thinking about this excerpt from Frances Mayes’ Bella Tuscany:
I feel as well a growing distrust of spending too much of one’s life deifying work. Finding that running balance among ambition, solitude, stimulation, adventure — how to do this? …
The last few years have pulled me too much in the exterior direction. After devoting […]
