Here’s an easy way to create a solid plan for your success — What’s the difference between strategy and tactics? Who cares about a Vision Statement? What is my mission and where do I start with it all? In this short article, I answer these questions, demystify terms, and offer questions you can ask yourself to make your success inevitable for any project. …

Making the shift is easier than you realize — In this article, I dive into the key differences between overthinkers and deep thinkers. I’ll break things down into smaller parts and offer suggestions on how you can start turning your overthinking energy into more productive thought. Last week, I stumbled upon a great article by Jano le Roux: Four…

Spend your time making it shorter — Your emails are too long. So is your resumé. Your presentation is also too long. And your newsletter. Or your code, refactor that nonsense! Your design doesn’t need all that cruft either. Fewer fonts. And the colours, please, my eyes. Simplify As a lifelong overthinker, I am often the opposite of…

Sometimes Occam’s Razor is wrong — Author’s note: this is a personal story with some amusing moments and a goal to raise awareness about EDS. It is a small and meaningful detour from my usual posts about expert thinking, research, and language. When I was young, I did all manner of stupid human tricks — I…

Beware of these harmful conversation-stoppers — As you go about these days and weeks ahead, getting your work done while also trying to make sense of all the violence, beware of some of the phrases you may encounter. …

Forget Wordle, here’s a challenge that really matters to your friends and peers — There are a lot of words we use in our daily speech, that if we thought about them, we’d want to replace with better alternatives. Not because the language police say so. Rather because those words carry a bias, come from questionable origins, or are otherwise harmful in some way. …

What you want to know and what you ask aren’t the same thing — I recently worked with an amazing team of talented people to design a user survey for a large community. These were accomplished professionals with a wide range of valuable experience across many domains. However, they had limited user research or survey design experience. This sort of design gap is quite…

A brief introduction to the concept of Thoughtwork — I first stumbled across the concept of thoughtwork in a podcast episode called ‘Beginner’s Mind’ from Master Coach Kara Loewentheil. She introduces thoughtwork as managing your mind, with the aim of feeling more empowered and in control of your own thoughts and emotions. …

They are all optional — A thought is a sentence in your head. That is all. This revelation itself could be the post, but there is more to say. It is so easy to create thoughts that we often don’t notice them or the feelings they produce. …