Meeting Planning
Still working on that project of meetings that don't waste people's time. I'd like to do better than that -- meetings that are fun, meetings that get things done, meetings…
Good challenges and … the harder kind
Sarah Twichell (of the blog Edge to Center) asked me today What makes the difference between a challenge you rise to and a challenge you're overwhelmed by? Good question, and…
Some Thoughts About Email
Sometimes the best response to email is to just not say anything. In addition to the Right Speech guidelines of "Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it true?" you…
Metaphor of the Day take 2
Well there has been a crazy long gap between posts here, but there are still about 120 days to go until the convention, and there will probably be some ruminating…
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…
Isn’t It Ironic?
Within a couple of days of posting the last blog post, The Pursuit of Perfection, a new and shiny opportunity came up. It seemed like something that would be worth…
The Pursuit of Perfection
I sometimes describe ThatCon as "ambitious", by which I mean that we're constantly trying to do better, bigger, and more exciting than we've done before. One-upping our own past performance…