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5 practices for effective virtual meetings

October 6, 2024

We often see “this meeting should have been an email”, and there’s a lot of truth in that. But it’s true, not because meetings aren’t important, but because...

Project planning in 8 minutes or less

September 18, 2024

You have something you’re working on, and you’d like it to go well. This seems reasonable, if we’re working on something we usually hope it will go well....

The answers always begin with questions

September 1, 2024

I like to start at the beginning. That doesn’t mean the start, but the place where we’re trying to understand, rather than the forge ahead without looking...

The most important thing is to begin

Data syntrophy I ran across the term, syntrophy, back when I was an microbial ecologist. It means ‘interaction for the common good’ and since then I’ve been...