Metaphor of the Day
Being conchair of ThatCon is like being head magician of an amazing machine. Of which I do not know all the incantations to use all its miraculous capabilities and besides…
Learning from Last Year
Every year the staff of ThatCon ends the year with a pile of notes about what to change for next year. And then the notes go in a file and…
Worst. Idea. Ever.
Three sentence email is the idea that all emails should be no more than three sentences long. Email takes too long to respond to, so pledge that all emails will…
Staffing up
I skipped writing about the debrief from the last convention, and there's a lot to say about that. Right now I'm deep into the process of staffing next year's con…