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Writing
2024
- Dec 17, 2024 Tools I’m Using to Build My Digital Garden
Which tools best support a flexible digital garden workflow.
- Apr 23, 2024 The Art of Serial Focusing - Mastering One Thing at a Time
Why focusing on one task at a time can reduce stress and improve productivity.
2023
- Oct 13, 2023 Minimal Computing for Collaborative, Equitable Digital Scholarship
How minimal computing can support equitable, sustainable scholarship.
2022
- Nov 17, 2022 Taming the Digital Dragon
Why the addiction frame can distort how we talk about tech use.
- Feb 14, 2022 The Beginning Will Suck
Why starting a new project often feels messy before it gets better.
2021
- Oct 9, 2021 What You’ll Need For Mobile Vlogging
What you need to start mobile vlogging.
- Jul 17, 2021 There Are Always Two Paths
Why crisis often leaves us with more than one path forward.
- May 21, 2021 Developing An Attitude of Gratitude
How gratitude can support well-being and empathy.
- May 14, 2021 The Harm in Do No Harm
Why 'do no harm' can be an incomplete guide for action.
- Feb 16, 2021 Seven Steps to Chunking Content
How chunking helps people remember and process information.
- Jan 5, 2021 From Trash to Treasure
How a hard semester turned into a lesson in recovery and reflection.
2020
- Dec 16, 2020 Technology is a Tool, Not the Strategy
Why technology should support a strategy, not become the strategy.
- Dec 8, 2020 Sharpen Your Saw
Why sharpening your saw means protecting time to renew yourself.
- Nov 19, 2020 Hacking Happiness in the Information Age
How screentime, habits, and balance shape digital well-being.
- Nov 17, 2020 Be joyful, loving, & explosive
A Bradbury quote about joy, love, and creative energy.
- Nov 16, 2020 Stop overscheduling
Why too much on your calendar can lead to burnout.
- Nov 13, 2020 Hell Yeah…or No
A simple filter for deciding what’s worth your time and energy.
- Nov 9, 2020 Are you busy or productive?
A quick check on whether you're busy or actually productive.
- Oct 23, 2020 Innovation & Execution
Why innovation matters less without execution.
- Oct 12, 2020 Work like a maker, not a manager
A reminder to protect maker time instead of over-scheduling like a manager.
- Oct 9, 2020 How & Why You Should Dox Yourself on the Internet
Why learning how doxing works is part of staying literate online.
- Sep 29, 2020 De-hypnotizing ourselves
A reflection on waking up from inherited beliefs and assumptions.
- Sep 23, 2020 Pause & Reboot
A reminder to pause, reboot, and notice the mind at work.
- Sep 22, 2020 Stop Waiting for “What’s Next”
Why waiting for what's next can keep you from actually living.
- Sep 21, 2020 Are you on offense or defense?
A reminder to stay on offense when setting and pursuing goals.
- Sep 17, 2020 Ikigai
A reflection on ikigai, purpose, and what you want from your work.
- Sep 11, 2020 Humans Have Bodies
Why embodied, offline life still matters in a digital age.
- Sep 3, 2020 Gone for a minute
A brief note on stepping away from social feeds.
2018
- Dec 5, 2018 The most valuable thing on the Internet is your attention
Why your attention is the most valuable thing on the internet.
- Apr 19, 2018 Viewing your life as a project
A Stoic view of life as an ongoing project of ethical self-development.
- Feb 13, 2018 Developing a personal vision statement
How to write a personal vision statement that guides choices and action.
- Jan 25, 2018 Take the time to review and reinforce your digital hygiene
How to protect your accounts, devices, and personal data online.
- Jan 18, 2018 Encrypt your devices
Why device encryption belongs in your annual security checkup.
- Jan 16, 2018 Protect your connection to the Internet
How to protect your internet connection and reduce exposure.
- Jan 4, 2018 Review & Revoke Social Logins & Third Party App Access
Why social logins can create privacy and security risks.
2017
- Dec 28, 2017 Three steps to develop a system to take control of your passwords
How to manage passwords with less risk and hassle.
- Dec 7, 2017 Using a daily gratitude journal to start your day
How a daily gratitude journal can steady your morning.
- Nov 24, 2017 Information Without Emotion is Rarely Retained
Why emotion helps information stick in learning.
- Nov 16, 2017 Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.
Why slower, careful work can be smoother and faster overall.
- Nov 9, 2017 Control Your Controllables
Why focusing on controllables can reduce stress and improve flow.
2016
- Oct 17, 2016 Vertical Teams and the Open Organizational Structure of BadgeChain
A look at BadgeChain's organizational structure and evolution.
- May 2, 2016 Podcasting
How podcasting uses RSS and why a website still matters.
- Jan 4, 2016 Using Slack & Trello to Organize a Podcasting Series About Literacy Education & Research
How Slack and Trello can organize a collaborative podcast series.
2015
- Sep 22, 2015 The 30 Day Challenge
As humans, we regularly
- Sep 21, 2015 Meditation, Mindfulness, & Gaining Headspace in My Workflow
How meditation and mindfulness can improve your workflow.
- Jul 19, 2015 Describing the Complex Systems that Influence & Guide My Workflow
How the systems around us shape the way we work.
- Jun 30, 2015 Continued Thoughts on Getting Things Done with Kanban and Trello
Continued reflections on Trello, Kanban, and getting things done.
2013
- Aug 7, 2013 Day Three at the MA New Lit Institute – Interestingness and Computational Culture
Notes from day three at the MA New Literacies Institute.
Book notes
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- 2025 Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
- 2025 The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu
- 2025 The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
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- 2024 The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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- 2018 Atomic Habits
James Clear
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- 2017 Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life
Gary John Bishop
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- 2016 How to stop worrying & start living
Dale Carnegie
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- 2007 The 4-Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss