More than a living

Ahem.
It’s been awfully quiet around here, as of late. And for that, I apologize.
Everyone is busy. Busy busy busy.
But I’m rarely, if ever, too busy to chat with you, gentle reader. So why don’t we get to it?
When I posted that we needed CSS help for Kumquat, I expected to get a few portfolios in […]

I had lunch today with a former co-worker that has effectively “retired” at 39 (Jealous, much?). She is very much a Top 1%’er and a rockstar teammate that I know is sorely missed at our past employer.
My central question to her was, “What are you doing with your time? Where have you turned your […]

Tired of hearing us complain about Kumquat? So are we!
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Quit being part of the problem.
Here’s the gig description from 37signals, craigslist, and hypocritical.
We were going to try to make this gig post cute and pithy. But the fact of the matter is we’re […]

If you aren’t, you are becoming antiquated - so goes the straight-forward advise in It’s a “Sprint” not a “Marathon,” from Incentive Intelligence.
Each career cycle is getting shorter, which means that you need to be thinking about how you are expanding your bases of professional expertise. Being a niche specialist isn’t a long term strategy, […]

The engaging conversation occurring around “Knowing when to quit” already had me feeling better about the latest Kumquat decisions.
And then I read this from Joel on Software:
Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better.
There are thousands and tens of thousands of these tiny things.
It takes a […]

As many of you have surmised, one of the tangential as-the-world-turns subplots of More than a living is following the development of a tool we’re building called Kumquat. As such, we’ve tried to be as open and honest about not only its development, but the mistakes we’ve made along the way.
A few months back, we […]

Okay. So here we are. Working from home.
And you, being the smart cookie that you are, have already done your darnedest to either comply with–or refute the necessity of–my “Top 5 physical requirements for working from home.”
So, physically, you’re good.
But what about mentally?
Shifting from the cubicle farm–or even the small office setting–to all by your […]

Part of being happy at work is finding ways to sustain your personal growth. One way to ensure you’re sustaining your personal growth is finding a mentor.
Ideally, that mentor has some sort of relationship with you. However, when push-comes-to-shove, perceived mentors or role models work equally well.
Guy Kawasaki tends to fall in this role model […]

(Feel free to hum along with Peter Tosh while you’re reading this.)
When I was on the corporate side of the desk, I tended to place a great deal of emphasis on writing plans.
So much so, that some people still cringe when I mention that I’m working on a plan.
“Does it have an executive summary?” they […]

Sigh. Since you asked. Yeah, that’s the long and the short of it.
Kumquat is on the way. Seriously. No, I mean it.
Good thing this is a personal project and not for a real client.
As if I don’t feel bad enough, Basecamp continues to rub it in. Guilting me me, day after day after day.
Hang on, […]