Access, ability, choice

Access, ability, choice

I had finally made it to my annual medical / wellness check. Somehow, between … I was about to say, “between moving and getting kids settled …”. But of course that’s not entirely true. We moved last July. Kids haven’t lived at home full time for a couple of years. So...
Brand Is Behaviour

Brand Is Behaviour

Brand is not really this weird nebulous thing … it’s a much simpler concept than you think.    TRUE STORY — THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED! “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Cancun!” What …? I was jolted out of my podcast playing in my...
Online Business: Product First or Audience First?

Online Business: Product First or Audience First?

It’s another one of those chicken or egg questions, as in which one came first, not what to have for dinner. Should you create a product first, and then find an audience for it? Or should you connect with others first, and then create a product for them? There are...
Getting It Done in the Margins of Life

Getting It Done in the Margins of Life

Sitting on a low wall outside our digs for the summer, I waited while my daughter ran up to grab her metro card. She would need it for the destination we had just decided on: the Apple Store in a mall on the outskirts of town. I knew it would be at least ten minutes...

Starting. And Starting Again.

Six months ago, I was in my last week in Turkey. Moving boxes lined the hall and best part of our living room. A certain moving company and I were having a complicated relationship, and I was filled with that strange exhaustion that accompanies change. There was a...
Why Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work and What To Do Instead

Why Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work and What To Do Instead

I was excited to get out of bed and start my day. Not for the reasons you might think: I didn’t have an exciting project to sink my teeth into, I wasn’t going on vacation and I wasn’t going shoe shopping. I was excited about getting on the scale. What? I know. I weigh...

Balance Is A Myth

I’ve read that that work-life balance is a myth. There’s no such thing. In a way, it makes sense, because the phrase work-life balance implies that work is not life, and life is not work. Kind of bad news for those who follow their passion and live for their “work”! I...
The Magic of Co-Working

The Magic of Co-Working

The message came through just as I was coming up the steps from the park to the street. I was out of breath, having just done the sprint I like to do at the end of an otherwise slow run. “Better be there in 15, or your pay will be docked!” My co-worker Dominique is so...

My 5-Point Productivity Environment Setup

It’s been blistering — upwards of 30 degrees for the past few days here in Milan, where I am spending a few weeks this summer. My happy gallivanting around this enchanting city, finding digital nomad friendly places, has come to a standstill. The heat has forced me...