I’m learning yoga. So far, it’s helped to make me more flexible, both mentally and physically. (I can bend in ways I never thought possible, and after going through a workout I no longer have the desire to yell…much.) By in large, that’s considered a “good thing” in business these days. Flexibility, resilience, the ability [...]

I’ve mentioned my distaste for wireframing in previous posts. It’s not that I can’t do it, it just takes me a while and makes me second-guess every placement I make because I know I lack expertise in User-Interface Design (something that’s currently on my list of self-improvement items.) So, what difference Balsamiq Mockup do diffferent? [...]

From time to time, you might find yourself a little bit overwhelmed in your work. Instead of delegating some of that extra work out, most of us tend to try and use every trick in the book to get the job done ourselves, such as the one featured in the short, six-second video below. That’s [...]

We’ve all let loose that exasperated cry at one point or another. Angry to the point of speaking in tongues, and tearing our hear out in large clumps as we hop up and down, frumiating worse than a hot and bothered bandersnatch at a bikini modeling contest. We feel outraged, incensed, and a whole bunch [...]

Some days you start to wonder if your life really adds value, or if other people around you are just polite enough to let you think it does. It’s great when you know what you do is important, life has some semblance of meaning to it.  But what  to do when you have a client [...]

“Dude, that gantt chart looks incredible! What did you use to make it?!” “A $160,000 business education.” Yeah, okay, so I exaggerated a little bit: between merit scholarships and community college classes it was probably only about $50k. Be that as it may… There’s a classic example for this: complimenting the chef on his utensils when he [...]