August 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
It’s almost September: school supplies, fall clothes, old friends, class schedules. I love the motion after summer’s pause. I love the thrill of new projects and the renewed energy for old ones. I love the return to making work seriously fun instead of taking vacations that are seriously fun.
In celebration, I bought a notebook today. […]
Everyone suffers from burnout at some time or another. You know what it feels like: everything irritates you; everyone bothers you; every task requires too much energy. You can’t imagine ever feeling motivated by your work again. What do you do? Here are a few ideas… though they didn’t totally work for me. I greeted […]
I don’t subscribe to the “define your niche and then stick with it” school of blogging. That works great for some blogs and some bloggers and not so well for others. If you hesitate over blogging because you think you must stick to a niche and work it to the tune of 500,000 pageviews a […]
I’m leaving RedMonk, at least for now, meaning I won’t be blogging at tech decentral or taking briefings via RedMonk or attending analyst conferences as a RedMonk analyst. I’m focusing instead on Web Worker Daily, on the occasional GigaOM article on Web 2.0 happenings, and on turning this blog back to what excites me the […]
February 16, 2007 – 7:15 pm
We like to think of life and career in terms of progress and achievement and moving forward or upwards… but that’s not really how it is, is it? It’s more like spiraling, maybe like sine waves, perhaps chaos. But no, not chaos, because there are repeating patterns and cycles. Twenty years ago I left Denver […]
February 8, 2007 – 4:45 pm
I’ve just returned from the Sun Analyst Summit where I acted out industry analyst suchness in person. I had to repeatedly answer the question, “where did you come from?” which I know aimed at understanding my professional background but landed on me differently, because having been out of the workforce for five plus years I […]
February 4, 2007 – 7:38 pm
I’ll be in San Francisco Monday through Wednesday this week for Sun’s Analyst Summit. Should be a good time–I get to see and meet lots of people I want to see and meet at the same time that I escape Denver’s interminable intolerable unbelievable winter for three days.
My schedule’s largely spoken for at this point, […]
January 23, 2007 – 5:32 pm
What happens when you embrace chaos, welcoming it eagerly into your life? Here’s the inspiring Tara Hunt version (from her archives, scroll down to read it):
1. It will prepare you for anything….
2. It will prevent you from making assumptions….
3. It will reduce your stress levels….
4. It will open new doors….
5. It will allow you to […]
January 19, 2007 – 5:31 pm
Would you rather do a few things well or a lot of things badly? For now, I’ve chosen the latter.
The “kaleidoscope model” of career decision-making might be relevant here:
Recently Lisa Mainiero and Sherry Sullivan (2005) suggested that there might be alternate explanations about women’s career decision-making. In their article Kaleidoscope Careers: An Alternate Explanation […]
January 16, 2007 – 8:16 am
My husband Rick is a pro traveler; I’m the amateur in the family.
I’m on my way to Mashup Camp 3 in Boston. I thought a lot about how to get to the airport before deciding on taking SuperShuttle. Our neighborhood streets are still mostly impassable unless you have an SUV, and I didn’t want to […]
