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Now, 23rd March 2016

Thinking aboutThere are 36 Quality Advocates at Asynchrony Labs, in three offices across two states. It's a lot of people and I don't want to be a bottleneck for them getting stuff done. How do I best enable them to do good work? About the best

Now, year end edition

Thinking aboutI've been doing the Elements of Focus course from Shawn Blanc, and it's been really good. Lots of titbits on how to set tomorrow-me up for a productive day, and making today more useful. Day 15 made me think of the Cynefin Complexity model (it&

Now - Friday 13th October 2015

Reading: (updates and archives) John Scalzi "Lock In" (murder mystery set in near future, with part of the population unable to communicate except online or via android stand-ins) Knitting/Craft:A small drawstring bag to carry my worry stones (things to carry and fiddle with), made from lime

Now - October 26th 2015

I used to do snapshot posts a while ago of what was on my mind and what I was working on. I read Shawn Blanc's Now page, which refers to Derek Sivers Now page, so I'll put mine up periodically. Link in the sidebar or these

Snapshot - August 2008

It's been a while since I did one of these. September and March in 2007 were the last. Similar to phoeknits weekly thing but a lot less frequent: Knitting Eris is back in the lunchtime knitting slot, which is pretty much the only time I knit. I have

Snapshot - State of the Onion

Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts. Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others). It's been a

Snapshot - September 2007

Reading: Finished a fascinating book over the long weekend: Another day in the frontal lobe by Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon. The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine is my other current read. Finished Ill Wind, started (but not finished) Heat Stroke, and got most of the way through Chill Factor.

Snapshot - March 2007

Reading: Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Writing: A mystery short story, and editing my 2006 NaNoWriMo novel for Bristow. Listening to: Witching Hour by Ladytron. Knitting: Chiral socks (my own design) with Sweet Georgia Superwash Sock in Slayer from The Loopy Ewe. Spinning: 2oz hand-dyed tussah silk from Spunky Eclectic.

Snapshot - March 2006

Listening to Train "For Me, It's You" and Emiliana Torrini "Love In The Time Of Science". I have to be in the right mood for Emiliana, but she's written some beautiful mellow songs, definitely worth listening to. The Train CD was a

Snapshot - November 2002

Currently: Reading The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward Listening to Let Go by Avril Lavigne Watching Babylon 5 season one DVDs Programming test code for the CalendarPanel on Chronicle Looking for a hassle-free flute pre-amp that works (NOT Barcus Berry, theirs was nothing but trouble and is now an

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