A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with a young woman who was having some “man trouble”. She had been jokingly saying to my wife, Leslie, that she’d like for me to “train” her boyfriend, because she was so envious of how nice I am.Apparently...
<rant mode=“on” type=“get-off-my-lawn-you-crazy-younguns”>WSGI middleware is hazardous to your API’s health. There, I said it.It’s not the actual idea of WSGI middleware I have a problem with, but what a lot of people seem to think the idea...
I’ve uploaded the handout for tonight’s Beyond Belief workshop. Please print it out before you call in!Can’t make it tonight? No problem! Circle members get free recordings of workshops they missed, as long as the workshop was during their...
It took almost an hour before I could crack him… before an opening appeared in the veneer of his self-confidence, allowing him to show a real emotion.When we started the coaching call, he was cheerful. Too cheerful, even. The goal for the session...
Have you ever noticed how some people just won’t follow good advice? You can tell them over and over again to quit their job or dump their boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever, but they just won’t do it. “I can’t”, they’ll say, followed by a long list...
I’ve been receiving a lot of positive feedback in email about the “How To Make Yourself Do Anything” workshop I gave on Saturday, and I thought I’d share a few of the comments with you, in case you haven’t yet had a chance to listen to...
I’ve just uploaded the PDF handout for tomorrow’s free workshop, “How To Make Yourself Do Anything”. Feel free to download and have a look, but if you want to actually attend the workshop, you’ll need to sign up here.About 26 of the people who’ve...
In a spontaneous fit of self-referentiality, I’m now going to mention a book, in this blog, that mentions this blog, in the book. 🙂Scott Rosenberg’s new book Dreaming In Code, which is mostly about the Chandler project I work on for OSAF, mentions...
The other day I ran across this terrific quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of “The Little Prince”:True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Now, if I read that quote a year or two ago, I...
I woke up at 1 o’clock in the afternoon yesterday.Behind the steering wheel of a moving car.Veering to the left, towards oncoming traffic!Adrenalin surged, and I yanked the wheel back to the right, my heart pounding even as my eyes were trying to...
A funny thing happened to me sometime in the last week or so: I seem to have developed a “work ethic”.Well, that’s what I call it, anyway. What it is, is that I’ve started noticing when I’ve drifted off from doing actual work, and I think of...
Sometimes I feel like an idea is just too damn big for me to write about. Not because I don’t feel I can do it justice, but because I don’t know if I can say it in a way that will actually get it across to anyone.So I usually hem and haw and babble...
