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For the Love of Math

Math is often viewed as too abstract to be useful or beautiful, but like music and paintings, it can be appreciated by everyone, not just the experts.

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Have a Busy Boss? Here’s 5 Ways to Make Every Minute Count

To keep projects moving and make the best use of Carl’s time and mine, I try to keep our meetings as short and productive as possible.

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Hackers & Writers – Practicing the Non-Linear Arts

I grew up writing both stories and code, but it took me a long time to figure out just how similar they are.

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Constant Personal Optimization

There are many aspects of my daily routine that I realized I can get more out of, I started with an agile approach to make optimizations. Here's my story.

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On Writing Technical Content

Here's what I've learned about managing time when writing technical content — categorize tasks, and figure out your best setting and work flow for each.

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The Structure of a Real Apology

Life requires apologies sometimes. A real apology is a gift and a smart investment in the quality and happiness of our relationships with others.

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Organize Your Life with Trello

Trello is a great todo list app that can help organize your life in many ways. Here are a few ways I use it at work and at home.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Curiosity

I've recently been looking into how to increase my curiosity in order to improve engagement with clients and become a better maker.

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The Invisible Gorilla Is Smarter than You

Being aware of all these biases and how we think doesn't mean they can all be overcome, but being aware can help us get the System 2 part of our thinking and make sure we're not he

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How Do You Know What You Don’t Know?

These three questions can help me identify my understanding of any topic or idea. They also provide a guide on improving my knowledge of any topic or idea I am unfamiliar with.

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Baby Names & Gmail Accounts

There are lots of important decisions in choosing a name, and among them in today's world is: "Is the Gmail account available?"

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How to Automate Your Human – Forming Good Development Habits

Humans come with their own built-in automation system called "habit formation." Here's how I changed one of my development habits for the better using a small script and a little b

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