studio non troppo : mindful design : facilitation



2023
July
3 Update?


2022
December
2 Quotes real, imagined, and indeterminate
November
10 What we’re around to see
8 Fire and function
October
22 Blind spots
21 Personal “participation”


2021
April
3 To be read to


2020
September
12 Benefiting from bad design


2017
November
2 Allowing value
October
29 Two writings


2016
November
10 To learn to leap
August
13 Change and balance
April
11 Best practices
4 We miss so many
1 Trade-offs, limits, and change
March
25 Insecurity, status, and learning
17 The losses of cherry-picking
10 To choose encouragement
February
17 Your own new clothes
January
7 Reasons and trust
1 Plenty of new years


2015
November
11 If I could teach
7 No training will work
September
24 Mis-measuring
August
16 The presence of choice
July
6 two lists of experience
June
8 It is hard to leap while looking
May
9 Repetition and maintenance
7 First step
3 “Yes, and…” or “yes, but…”
April
24 In real time
14 Avoidance
March
30 Solving as practice
27 Thinking and planning
24 Reach or push?
21 Not seeing
7 Artist
3 Don’t pretend it’s easy
February
26 You can’t break broken glass
25 I find myself
21 Noticing our own competence
19 Intuit me
9 Second order foolishness
3 A good use of time?
January
27 First
25 The experience of coding
23 Typos
17 On problems
15 A tree
12 Indeed
10 Nonsensical tussle
8 Ingredients and tools
6 The practice of return


2014
December
22 Diversity of mind
20 Looking again
18 Balancing and tipping
16 Learnings
14 Mis-wasting time
12 The individual bastion
10 Impractical economy
8 The job as it actually is
6 Reversals
4 Where are the walls?
2 Two times
November
30 Too little, too much
28 Stuckness and problem solving
26 Musashi, again
24 The direction of “better”
22 Careful
20 Pushing with reason
18 Listening while speaking
17 The problems aren’t simply “out there”
15 Imagining the analytics
13 Spoiler-proof art
11 Beyond winning
9 A fan of failure
7 What are you counting?


2009
October
9 Thanks, Douglas Adams
4 What’s your relationship to your categories?
September
20 Branding Proteus
4 Planning amidst complexity and chaos
August
22 Don’t settle for optimization
19 Your power band
12 Eighty twenty-ing
8 Too many ideas
July
27 A big hammer on a small problem
18 Where, again, is the grass greener?
12 Waste not, win not
6 The benefits of batch processing
June
30 Thinking beyond hard work
23 The only reason to travel
15 How to keep on going
12 Three superior technologies
6 To catch a wave
May
30 Surviving the email inbox
23 This doesn’t help at all
21 Should you start a blog?
14 Pick ways to fail affordably
11 How does an introvert succeed in business?
10 How good should your work be?
8 Who’s the technology for, anyway?
6 The real barrier to entry in starting a business
4 A big lesson from a university on how policies can be problems
April
27 Meeting a mountain on your own terms
20 4 important points about building and maintaining your list
13 Getting “Getting Things Done” Done
4 How to make money online
2 Learning by learning
March
28 On a new host
22 Web hosts have bad days, too
18 Our cherry tree
14 Musashi’s lesson
11 Design for testability and maintenance
9 How does pay-per-click work, anyway?
2 On failing well
February
25 Two elements of success
21 What’s your Primary Function?
18 A high-altitude view of an internet information business
15 Three reasons not to start an information business