Matt Fletcher on Atomic Spin

Emotional Intelligence, Part 2 – Improving Your Social Awareness

Three concrete tips for improving your social awareness, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

Personal Optimization

Emotional Intelligence, Part 1 – Improving Your Self-Management

Three concrete tips for improving self-management, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

Growing as Makers

Tips for Making Persuasive Arguments

Forming persuasive arguments is important but not easy. The 7 Triggers to Yes is a new favorite book of mine, and it directly addresses this topic.

Development Practices

Three Tips for Building a Long-Term, Sustainable Project

Help your future self and others by ensuring your project is sustainable over the long term by using these three simple tips.

Personal Optimization

Bring Joy to Your Desktop Backgrounds with Workflow Automation

Bored with stock art backgrounds and don't care enough to search for anything better? Workflow.app makes it easy to collect great desktop background images.

Development Practices

Need to Understand Some Legacy Code? Start with a Test!

Debugging legacy application is never easy, but you can make understanding it less of a chore by adding a unit test. Includes rationale and examples.

Development Practices

Need to Debug a Legacy App? Throw an Exception

Make debugging a legacy app less of a chore by throwing an exception–it's cheap, quick, and easy.

News & Events

Three Great Talks at Next Month’s GLSEC 2016

GLSEC will have fifteen talks this year, spread across three rooms. I won’t be able to attend all of them, and here are three I’d be especially bummed miss.

Personal Optimization

I Wish I’d Met You Ten Years Ago, TextExpander

TextExpander has saved me from countless hours of typing, and the errors that come along with manual typing.

UX/Design Techniques

Asking “Why” in Design – A Cautionary Tale & Six Resources

Though great designers employ a myriad of tools to solve problems, perhaps the most powerful tool is effective use of the question "why?"

Personal Optimization

Frustrations with iOS Workflow

iOS's Workflow tool is both amazingly powerful and amazingly frustrating. I’m still not sure how it can automate the day-to-day things I grapple with.

Extracurricular Activities

Script Away Your Annoyances – Glueing Evernote and Omnifocus via JavaScript

How I used a JavaScript program to ease my morning OmniFocus and Evernote routine.

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