Random thoughts after one week of teaching.
I love this job. I love every part of it, even the parts that make me crazy. I love the planning; I love the people; I love the learning; I love making my plans real every day; I love getting to know the students.
I’m exhausted. How do people teach […]
It’s been an intense spring and summer of rethinking my career and preparing for something altogether different. It came together this week: I accepted a half-time math teaching job at a Denver high school and I also received news that I passed Colorado’s math content exam for teachers.
I don’t know whether I’ll blog about teaching […]
That’s the first question I get at job interviews lately. Yes, I’m looking to high school or middle school teaching — either math or technology — as my second career. You could say it’s my third or fourth career, after software development and then professional blogging/reporting and also stay-at-home mothering, if a career that be.
But […]
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 […]
