Through Their Eyes

What I noticed last week: Some weeks are not built for big moves. I had a couple of days where the best choice I could make was to stop at a good point, instead of pushing through just to feel productive. A small update.An hour of bookkeeping.Leaving something for tomorrow on purpose. It doesn’t look…

I spent a lot of last week doing bookkeeping. I know, I hear you groan! But it’s a necessary evil, right? I’m still relatively new to doing it in QuickBooks Online, and there were a few things I just could not seem to keep straight. Which category does this go in? Didn’t I already have…

Whew! Four days, 19 official keynotes, sessions, fireside chats, and a million conversations later, I’ve been trying to distill my notes into what might be useful beyond the conference. Here are my four biggest takeaways: 1. Our jobs are changing, not ending.The future of AI isn’t in better prompts, but in better coworking. It’s learning…

Last week I was reminded how easy it can be to unintentionally add friction to someone else’s problem. Someone needed some information, and while I couldn’t really solve the problem for them, I did have something that I thought might help. So I made a little extra effort to get it to them. They were…

What I noticed last week: A lot of people probably don’t need more discipline. They need a system that actually works for them. I’ve tried plenty of routines, productivity setups, and ways of working that seemed solid because they worked for someone else. Some were useful for a minute. Most didn’t stick. What’s worked better…

Things I noticed last week: Sometimes the thing causing my stress isn’t the delay. It’s that I keep thinking about the delay. I was waiting on information from a client and found myself getting increasingly annoyed. Not because I needed it that minute.Not even because the information was late yet.I was annoyed because I knew…