Matt Fletcher on Atomic Spin

Thirty Days of Gratitude – An Experiment

During September 2015 I wrote a thank you note to a different person each day. Here I discuss what it is like to express gratitude for thirty days straight.

Personal Optimization

Script Away Your Annoyances – Automatically Publish Your Favorite Feeds in Instapaper

Using ifttt (If This, Than That) to automatically save blog posts to Instapaper.

Development Practices

Script Away Your Annoyances – Removing Manual Project Setup Tasks

Using automation to make project setup as brain-dead as possible.

Growing as Makers

Why I Organized and Ran a Conference

I was surprised at what the question to this straightforward "why" question ended up being.

Personal Optimization

Gmail Filters for unattended-upgrades Reboots

Getting tired of seeing emails from unattended-upgrades? Here's how I configured Gmail to separate the signal from the noise.

Personal Optimization

Visualize Your Spreadsheet Data with Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting is a useful feature for analyzing spreadsheets. Here I introduce it and provide some examples.

Personal Optimization

Some Amazing Ideas Start as Wacky Ideas

A wacky idea is one that people might dismiss at first glance. But having permission to share them can open the door to innovation and creativity.

Growing as Makers

Finding Inspiration at CreativeMornings Grand Rapids

What can I do to spark inspiration? How can I be confident that my time spent watching the ocean or driving through the countryside is going to pay off?

News & Events

Balanced Team is Coming to Grand Rapids in 2015

Help us create better, stronger, smarter multi-disciplinary teams at the 2015 Balanced Team summit in Grand Rapids.

Growing as Makers

Florence Knoll: Defining Modern

I can only learn, strengthen myself, and improve my ability to solve problems by reaching across multiple disciplines.

Growing as Makers

Software Practitioners Shouldn’t Overlook the Design Mgmt. Institute

The Design Management Institute holds a wealth of knowledge about good design — knowledge that is directly applicable to software product development.

Extracurricular Activities

Script Away your Annoyances: Creating Word Groupings from Anki’s Database

Manually clicking through the Anki browser to pick out words reviewed today is annoying. Let's create a script to do this for us automatically.

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