Flow Focused
Evolving notes and insights on Teams, Work and Business Agility.
Activity Heatmap
2026Pinned Notes
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
JANUARY 2026
Alternatives to American Services
A comprehensive directory of non-US tech alternatives to promote digital sovereignty.
4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Four more ways to maximize university.
Building Team Flow Mapping
How I built the teamflowmapping app.
Decision Making as the Source of Problems
Expectating leaders to all be expert decision makers is the source of many problems.
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
My Emacs Writing Setup
How I've configured emacs for the goal of writing
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
Burnup Forecaster
An Excel workbook that uses historical throughput to provide probabilistic forecasts for project completion.
Alternatives to American Services
A comprehensive directory of non-US tech alternatives to promote digital sovereignty.
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
Alternatives to American Services
A comprehensive directory of non-US tech alternatives to promote digital sovereignty.
My Emacs Writing Setup
How I've configured emacs for the goal of writing
A Catalogue of Problems
Looking at the different kinds of problems teams face.
Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
Cross-functional teams good, but avoid super teams; use enabling teams to reduce cognitive load.
Decision Making as the Source of Problems
Expectating leaders to all be expert decision makers is the source of many problems.
Manage the Value, Not the Work
People Are the Heart of Any Practice
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
The Power of Predictable Delivery
Why Work Waits
2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
The slides and an overview of a 2021 talk I delivered to an MBA class about Agile
Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7
Facebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
Favourite Things
From Searches to Apps to Siri
Gamification Must Be Addictive
Gowalla
Tekkonkinkreet City
How Agile Coaches Can Empower Teams To Deal With Uncertainty
How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?
How I Use Scrum to Teach Agility
Story Gets Us to Emotion
Identity 2.0 - An Introduction to Identity On the Social Web
Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
In 2 Months
Internal Micro Messaging Platforms Are Gold
Introducing BM Stack
Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
Is It A Site? A Business? Or Mostly Just Twitter?
It's All For Happiness
The Social Story of a Brand
Just Do Something Different
Just Enough Kanban
Linux + Chrome + Flash
There's No One Right Way
Learn how to navigate the complexities of Agile practices and make informed decisions that balance trade-offs.
2011 Accomplishments
My personal accomplishments in 2011
1 Window
Having only a single window open increases focus but creates discomfort; It takes practice.
2013 CrossFit Open Recap
A recap of my performance and experience participating in the 2013 CrossFit Open
2022 Recap
A recap of my accomplishments in 2022
2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
The slides and an overview of a 2021 talk I delivered to an MBA class about Agile
2023 Year in Review
An overview of my accomplishments in 2023
3x3 Lessons From My Summer Reading Part 1
Lessons from my Summer reading, including: The Paradox of Choice, The Dip, and The Laws of Simplicity.
4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Four more ways to maximize university.
5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Recommendations on maximizing the benefit you get from university.
6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009
9 Golden Rules for Agile Teams: Principles to Improve Collaboration
Some universally applicable guidance for Agile teams I've found helpful.
A Better Facebook Won't Help You
A Brand Is Not Your Friend
Although brands can help fill a need and provide relief, they're not real; prioritize real people and quality products.
A Quick Look at the Surface Site
A short critique of the Microsoft Surface website.
A Great Storyteller
Storytelling is leadership tool.
A Recap of 2010
A short list of my accomplishments in 2010.
A Risky Approach to Feedback
Achieving Agility Through Strong Mechanics
It's easy to copy the idea of what to do. It's much harder to actually do it.
Adding Some Mint to Real-Time Search
Advice to Writers by Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's 7 writing tips.
Digital Strategy & UX Strategy
A sketch depicting the difference between digital strategy and UX strategy.
After The Digital Handshake, What Comes Next?
AI Transformations Are Hard-Agile
AI requires the same organizational agility, decentralized decisions, and cultural shift as Agile.
An Agile Alternative to “Fixing”
Instead of applying one-time fixes, empower teams and manage constraints.
An Introduction To The New Life-Streaming
An Office on Every Surface
Analyzing The New Mac Ads
Are Brands Better Off When They Act Like Their Customers Online?
As Tumblr Changes From Platform To Network
Tumblr is evolving from simple blogging platform to social network.
At Odds
Attention to Detail Versus Features
Apple's attention to detail wins compared to competitors' feature lists.
Avoiding Agile Must-Dos
Agile means adaptability, not rigid practices; focus on outcomes over process compliance.
Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
Cross-functional teams good, but avoid super teams; use enabling teams to reduce cognitive load.
Avoiding the Practice Trap: Fostering Genuine Agility
Foster agility through mindful problem-solving, experimentation and continuous improvement.
Back. With Style No Less.
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
Being Obsessive Is Part of The Fun
Best to Wait on Ebooks
Beyond Practices: Behaviours and Goals in Agile
Focus on behaviors like improvement and collaboration. Practices are secondary.
Blog More and Do Less
Blogging: The Long Term Relationship
JustNotes
Learning to Trash It and Start Over
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders
Making Progress Through Questions
Making Work More Human
Malcolm is...
Maximize Productivity by Minimizing Context Switching
Stories and Understanding
My One Keyboard Struggle
New Job: Social Media Analyst at Blast Radius
Kanban and Pulling Out Agility
Shut Up and Take My Money!
SIFE Ryerson With CakePHP
Single In, Single Out
Snapshot: Introducing Ready Options to a B2B Service Team
Social Being, Media Meaning
Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins
Starting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
Starting Agile With Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
Media Tells Stories
The End of the PC Manufacturers
2025 Year in Review
A look back at what happened in 2025
Take Your Learning To The Comments
Turn Jira's Control Chart Into a Lead Time Scatterplot
Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency
Use Your Blog as a Notetaking Tool
Clear from Realmac Software
What I Want To Podcast
Why Laptops Will Replace Professors
2025 Year in Review
A look back at what happened in 2025
2026 Year In Review
Tracking what I've done in 2026
Building Team Flow Mapping
How I built the teamflowmapping app.
Decision Making as the Source of Problems
Expectating leaders to all be expert decision makers is the source of many problems.
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
Janky but Effective
Too many organizations strive for high efficiency and order, but often it just worsens outcomes
My Emacs Writing Setup
How I've configured emacs for the goal of writing
Kanban and Pulling Out Agility
2011 Accomplishments
My personal accomplishments in 2011
1 Window
Having only a single window open increases focus but creates discomfort; It takes practice.
2013 CrossFit Open Recap
A recap of my performance and experience participating in the 2013 CrossFit Open
2022 Recap
A recap of my accomplishments in 2022
2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
The slides and an overview of a 2021 talk I delivered to an MBA class about Agile
2023 Year in Review
An overview of my accomplishments in 2023
3x3 Lessons From My Summer Reading Part 1
Lessons from my Summer reading, including: The Paradox of Choice, The Dip, and The Laws of Simplicity.
4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Four more ways to maximize university.
5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Recommendations on maximizing the benefit you get from university.
6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009
9 Golden Rules for Agile Teams: Principles to Improve Collaboration
Some universally applicable guidance for Agile teams I've found helpful.
A Better Facebook Won't Help You
A Brand Is Not Your Friend
Although brands can help fill a need and provide relief, they're not real; prioritize real people and quality products.
A Quick Look at the Surface Site
A short critique of the Microsoft Surface website.
A Great Storyteller
Storytelling is leadership tool.
A Recap of 2010
A short list of my accomplishments in 2010.
A Risky Approach to Feedback
Achieving Agility Through Strong Mechanics
It's easy to copy the idea of what to do. It's much harder to actually do it.
Adding Some Mint to Real-Time Search
Advice to Writers by Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's 7 writing tips.
Digital Strategy & UX Strategy
A sketch depicting the difference between digital strategy and UX strategy.
After The Digital Handshake, What Comes Next?
AI Transformations Are Hard-Agile
AI requires the same organizational agility, decentralized decisions, and cultural shift as Agile.
An Agile Alternative to “Fixing”
Instead of applying one-time fixes, empower teams and manage constraints.
An Introduction To The New Life-Streaming
An Office on Every Surface
Analyzing The New Mac Ads
Are Brands Better Off When They Act Like Their Customers Online?
As Tumblr Changes From Platform To Network
Tumblr is evolving from simple blogging platform to social network.
At Odds
Attention to Detail Versus Features
Apple's attention to detail wins compared to competitors' feature lists.
Avoiding Agile Must-Dos
Agile means adaptability, not rigid practices; focus on outcomes over process compliance.
Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
Cross-functional teams good, but avoid super teams; use enabling teams to reduce cognitive load.
Avoiding the Practice Trap: Fostering Genuine Agility
Foster agility through mindful problem-solving, experimentation and continuous improvement.
Be Your Own Purple Cow
Back. With Style No Less.
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
Because The Market Needs Non-Value Creators
Being Obsessive Is Part of The Fun
Being Real About Tools and Work
Best to Wait on Ebooks
Better Planning with Two-Sided Dependencies
Learn how to improve planning and reduce delays by managing dependencies effectively.
Beyond Practices: Behaviours and Goals in Agile
Focus on behaviors like improvement and collaboration. Practices are secondary.
Blog More and Do Less
Blogging and Toastmasters
Blogging: The Long Term Relationship
Blogging to Push Ideas
Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
Brands Faking Human
But What Do You Do?
Capturing Customer Jobs Using a Mental Model Diagram
Chatting About Event Overload In Toronto
Christmas Turkey!
Chrome + CrunchBang Linux
Cloud Factory - Blog - The Surprising Story of Simplenote
Clear and Paper
Coffee Hop: March 20, 2011
Colemak Keyboard Layout - Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak
Colemak Keyboard - Still Better Than Dvorak?
Comparing and Remixing the Gemba Walk
Corporate Control of Social Media
Compromise
Could Dropbox Do This? A Business Idea
Create Share Consume and Organize
Creating A River of Web Media Content
Creating Communities Through Experience Blogs
Creating Focus Through User Needs Mapping and Core Domain Mapping
Criticizing Your Friends is Hard
Cross Post - Announcing Toronto Dev
CrossFit Update
CrunchBang Linux, Netbooks at High Speed
Curating
Daily Photo Logging with Google+
Day One and Learning to Journal
None
Desktop Mouse Movement
Diluting Brands in the World of Smartphones
Designing A Better Email Client
Designing Metro Apps on iOS
Don't Let the Interruption Become Your Focus
Don't Take This Personally, I'm Blocking You On Twitter
Don't Write User Stories, Tell Stories
Drift to Waterfall
Driving my Elize in Forza 3
Drumbeat and Project Orange
Drumbeat Models for Discussion on the Open Web
Drumbeat The Open Web Lens
Drumbeat Will The Internet of Things be Open?
Each Platform Has its Own Story
Email Declining
Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
Engagement and The Long Tail of Social Media Discussions
Examining \"Share of Conversation\"
Experimenting With Controlling Cycle Time Instead of WIP
F the File System
Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7
Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Devide
Facebook Home
Facebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
Favourite Things
Fear Of Freedom
The Reason for Innovation
Four Platforms That Are Changing Writing
How Customers Engage With a Brand's Story
From Big Bang Projects to Iterative and Incremental Development
From Searches to Apps to Siri
Gamification Must Be Addictive
GameStore
Get Into a Better Routine
Getting a Slight Idea
Getting Excited About Computing
Getting Into The Mixx
Getting More By Acting Early in Social Media
Give it Your Best Shot
Going Nowhere Without Mobile
GoodBye Tests And Quizes, Hello Comments
Gowalla
Have I Not Explained It All Yet?
Tekkonkinkreet City
How Agile Coaches Can Empower Teams To Deal With Uncertainty
How Can I Improve My Blog For You?
How Creative Is Your Business Technology?
Use Stories to Affect Stories
How Evernote Made Remembering Everything Simple
How Free Software Changes The Educationial Culture
How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?
How I Use Scrum to Teach Agility
How the iPad Shattered The PC
Future Stories
The Purpose of Each Platform
Story Gets Us to Emotion
Putting Metro on iOS
I've Won "How To Be a Rockstar Freelancer
iCloud Storage: Many Shallow Ponds
Identity 2.0 - An Introduction to Identity On the Social Web
If I Had Asked
If You Expect Them to Talk
None
Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
Improving How I Use Evernote
In 2 Months
App as Digital Proxy
In PostRank We Trust
Innovating For a Windows Tablet
Internal Micro Messaging Platforms Are Gold
Introducing BM Stack
Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
iOS's Disposable Games
Is This How Brand Squatting Will Be Defeated?
Is It A Site? A Business? Or Mostly Just Twitter?
It Works Just Like Your Phone
It's All For Happiness
A Network of People, Devices, and Things
The Social Story of a Brand
Customers Create Stories for Every Interaction
Just Do Something Different
Just Enough Kanban
JustNotes
Languages Evolve, Twitter's Should Too
Learning Agile with ChatGPT
Learning to Trash It and Start Over
Linux + Chrome + Flash
Listening to Two Conversations is Hard
User Experience Strategy
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders
Making Media Easier
Making Change Where Change is Possible
Making Products Last
Making Progress Through Questions
Making Work More Human
Making
Malcolm Visits the Zoo
Malcolm is...
Manage the Value, Not the Work
Mapping Options Using a Risk-Value Matrix
Maximize Productivity by Minimizing Context Switching
Stories and Understanding
Mind Map of Issues Surrounding Identity 2.0
Minimal Mac
Miroverse Template: Squad Health Check
Models to Focus Your Thinking
Music made using only sounds from Windows 95 and 98
More Focused Writing With OmmWriter
My 14 Most Valuable RSS Feeds
Moving Towards A Self-Hosted Cloud
My Agile Sketching Experiment
My AI Learning Journey
My Favourite Korean Dish
My First Contribution to TechVibes.com
My Goal For The Summer? More Seesmic
My Initial Experience With iCloud
My One Keyboard Struggle
My Problem With Anti-Social Networking
My Vibram FiveFingers
Navigating the AI Shift With the Wardley Doctrine
New Facebook, And Everyone Hates Malcolm
New Job: Social Media Analyst at Blast Radius
No Battlestar Love?
Story Makes it Relevant
None
notepad table is a table that is also a notepad. WANT
Notes from Gary V. at DemoCamp24
Notes from Gary Vaynerchuk at Rotmans
Notes From Roger Martin on Design Thinking
Om Malik's 10 Years of Blogging
One-Time Efforts
Basic Business Metrics
Only The Hard Stuff Matters
Open Conversations Will Kill Your Company
Optimal Connections
Paleo Mode
Papercut
Persistence and Momentum
People Are the Heart of Any Practice
PayPal's One-Stop Flop
Phones That Feel Like Magic
Plattan Plus
Pomodoro Everything
Pomodoro Timer by Navel Labs
Pseudo Augmented Reality
Publishing Markdown
None
Put it Down
Quick Jira Control Chart Aging WIP Hack
Rain in Roncesvalles
Re-Reading
Readability2 – A Readability Mod
Real-time Brands
Real Virtual-Neighbours Are The Best Kind
Reblogging - Not So Much
Recommended Wordpress Plugins For New Bloggers
Reeder for Mac a Sign of Things to Come
Refining The Innovative And The New
Renewal
Rethinking Retrospectives
Repeated Focus
Revisiting the Guidance on Cross-functional Teams
RIM Honestly
Running, Falling, and the Core of Agile
Ryerson's Digital Media Zone
Ruthlessly Reveal
Search Ad Search Ad - Recursion Problem?
Searching for Focus | Ryerson Digital Media Zone
Sentiment Vs. Engagement in Online Listening
Sentiment Strikes Back
Share Your Data
Shut Up and Take My Money!
SIFE Ryerson With CakePHP
SimpleText for Mac client
Single In, Single Out
Slap On Social
Snapshot: Introducing Ready Options to a B2B Service Team
Social Being, Media Meaning
Social Media Is Not For You
Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins
Social Networks as Trust Building Tools
Some DISQUS and Intense Debate Thoughts - They Both Need Work
Something Routine
South Korea, April 2023
Speak Loudly
Splitting the Social Network for the Best User Experience
Start Small
Starting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
Starting Agile With Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
Stop Being So Damned Shady On Twitter
Stop Blaming Teams: See the System
Problems are typically predictable outcomes of flawed organizational systems and project structures
Media Tells Stories
Stories = Understanding the World
Research & Insights Into Stories
Students Are Faced With An Education Problem
T Cafe
Take Your Learning To The Comments
Taking A First Look at Digital Marketing
Teaser - Toronto Dev Interview 2
Test-Driven Goals: A Scalable and Effective Pattern
The Best Motivational Speakers Say "F*ck"
The Better Tech Conference Survey
The Crowds I Own
The Desktop Is Done, Think Like iOS
The Death of The Boring Blog Post?
The End of Failure
The End of the Feature Economy
The Evolution of Story
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
The End of the PC Manufacturers
The Future of Real-time Chat and Beluga
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
The Importance of Work
The Invisible Bridge
The Logic Baffles Me
The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org
The Micro-Blogging Enabled Company
The Mobile Context
Success for the Mobile Context
The Most Enjoyable Reading Experience
The New Air
The New Outlook.com
The Newness and The Promise of Windows Phone 7
The Next Step For Net Geners
The Platform Owners Are In Control
The Power of Framing Social Dialogue
The Power of Predictable Delivery
The Prize of Attention
The Reality Of The Crowds
The Real Limit Of Social Media
The Reason That Social Analytics Will Succeed Over Traditional
The rules for computing happiness
The Sandwich Rebuttal
The Secret to Twitter Monetization Is...
The System That Works
The Team Dependency Matrix
The User Interfaces of CrossFit and Paleo
The Value of Tablet Huddle Experiences
The Whole Thing
The York University Strike As A Great Opportunity
There's No One Right Way
Learn how to navigate the complexities of Agile practices and make informed decisions that balance trade-offs.
Thinking About Technology Innovation That Sticks
Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future
This Virtuous Circle
The Digital Strategy Process
Thought Process
Three Years of GTD and Things
Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model
Trying to Find the Smaller Conversations
Tumblr and Posterous In Every Possible Way
Digital Strategy
Turn Anything Into a Social Something
Turn Jira's Control Chart Into a Lead Time Scatterplot
Twitter Style Redesigns And What They Share
Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency
Ubuntu On Netbooks - NBR VS Keyboard Control With Gnome Do
Ulysses 3
Unbundle the Value
Uncovering the Compromises of Metro Style Apps
The Social Context
Understanding OmniFocus: Attention
Unmasking the Invisible Overhead of Meetings
Using Culture as a Lens to Solve Organizational Challenges
Clear from Realmac Software
Using More of Apple's iOS Apps
Paper by FiftyThree
Video Review of The Paradox Of Choice
Virtual Bookshelves Are a Pain
Watch Out - Great Looking Ubuntu Intrepid Apps
We Don't Know
We Notice What We Choose To Notice
West Toronto CrossFit Featured on BlogTO
What happens when all search becomes instant?
What Has Microsoft Learned From Metro?
What I Want To Podcast
What Text Editors Tell us About Apple's Ecosystem
What The Heck Makes Tumblr a "Designed" Company
What's Next For The Mac?
None
When Identity and Blogs Don't Mix
None
Where Are The Problems?
Where I Learn I Suck at Reading, But That's OK
Where's The Innovation?
Which Platform Is For Creating?
Who Would Go To A University Unconference?
Why BNET.com Is A Really Good Site
Why Can The iPad Be Frustrating?
Why Do Location Sharing?
Why Do You Fan Companies on Facebook?
Why I Don't Like New Charities Every Month
Why Laconica Means Big Things For Corporate Micro Blogging
Why Laptops Will Replace Professors
Why Work Waits
Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009
With Books Like These, Who Needs School?
WriteRoom for iPhone 2.4 now in app store
Mapping the Brand Story
Your Ideas And Blogging the Crap Out of Them
None
YouTube Direct
Zenbe Is A Good Attempt At Enlightened Email
DECEMBER 2025
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NOVEMBER 2025
Stop Blaming Teams: See the System
Problems are typically predictable outcomes of flawed organizational systems and project structures
There's No One Right Way
Learn how to navigate the complexities of Agile practices and make informed decisions that balance trade-offs.
OCTOBER 2025
Better Planning with Two-Sided Dependencies
Learn how to improve planning and reduce delays by managing dependencies effectively.
Navigating the AI Shift With the Wardley Doctrine
AI Transformations Are Hard-Agile
AI requires the same organizational agility, decentralized decisions, and cultural shift as Agile.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Unmasking the Invisible Overhead of Meetings
Making Work More Human
AUGUST 2025
Maximize Productivity by Minimizing Context Switching
Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model
People Are the Heart of Any Practice
Unbundle the Value
From Big Bang Projects to Iterative and Incremental Development
JULY 2025
Favourite Things
My AI Learning Journey
JUNE 2025
Just Do Something Different
MAY 2025
We Don't Know
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SEPTEMBER 2024
Beyond Practices: Behaviours and Goals in Agile
Focus on behaviors like improvement and collaboration. Practices are secondary.
Achieving Agility Through Strong Mechanics
It's easy to copy the idea of what to do. It's much harder to actually do it.
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
Avoiding Agile Must-Dos
Agile means adaptability, not rigid practices; focus on outcomes over process compliance.
Making Progress Through Questions
AUGUST 2024
Starting Agile With Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
Drift to Waterfall
One-Time Efforts
9 Golden Rules for Agile Teams: Principles to Improve Collaboration
Some universally applicable guidance for Agile teams I've found helpful.
How Agile Coaches Can Empower Teams To Deal With Uncertainty
Avoiding the Practice Trap: Fostering Genuine Agility
Foster agility through mindful problem-solving, experimentation and continuous improvement.
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Using Culture as a Lens to Solve Organizational Challenges
2023 Year in Review
An overview of my accomplishments in 2023
DECEMBER 2023
The Team Dependency Matrix
Creating Focus Through User Needs Mapping and Core Domain Mapping
Just Enough Kanban
NOVEMBER 2023
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AUGUST 2023
Mapping Options Using a Risk-Value Matrix
Experimenting With Controlling Cycle Time Instead of WIP
Don't Write User Stories, Tell Stories
The Power of Predictable Delivery
JULY 2023
Manage the Value, Not the Work
Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
Cross-functional teams good, but avoid super teams; use enabling teams to reduce cognitive load.
An Agile Alternative to “Fixing”
Instead of applying one-time fixes, empower teams and manage constraints.
Where Are The Problems?
JUNE 2023
Rethinking Retrospectives
MAY 2023
Why Work Waits
Running, Falling, and the Core of Agile
How I Use Scrum to Teach Agility
My Agile Sketching Experiment
Revisiting the Guidance on Cross-functional Teams
Miroverse Template: Squad Health Check
2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
The slides and an overview of a 2021 talk I delivered to an MBA class about Agile
Making Change Where Change is Possible
Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
APRIL 2023
Test-Driven Goals: A Scalable and Effective Pattern
South Korea, April 2023
MARCH 2023
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JANUARY 2023
2022 Recap
A recap of my accomplishments in 2022
DECEMBER 2022
Starting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
Capturing Customer Jobs Using a Mental Model Diagram
Learning Agile with ChatGPT
NOVEMBER 2022
Turn Jira's Control Chart Into a Lead Time Scatterplot
OCTOBER 2022
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SEPTEMBER 2022
Comparing and Remixing the Gemba Walk
Quick Jira Control Chart Aging WIP Hack
Snapshot: Introducing Ready Options to a B2B Service Team
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MAY 2013
Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
APRIL 2013
Facebook Home
Real-time Brands
Ulysses 3
West Toronto CrossFit Featured on BlogTO
2013 CrossFit Open Recap
A recap of my performance and experience participating in the 2013 CrossFit Open
MARCH 2013
Tekkonkinkreet City
FEBRUARY 2013
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JANUARY 2013
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DECEMBER 2012
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NOVEMBER 2012
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OCTOBER 2012
Facebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
A Quick Look at the Surface Site
A short critique of the Microsoft Surface website.
Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins
Success for the Mobile Context
The Social Story of a Brand
Mapping the Brand Story
Each Platform Has its Own Story
The Purpose of Each Platform
Use Stories to Affect Stories
How Customers Engage With a Brand's Story
Story Gets Us to Emotion
Customers Create Stories for Every Interaction
The Reason for Innovation
Basic Business Metrics
Research & Insights Into Stories
Stories and Understanding
SEPTEMBER 2012
Media Tells Stories
Stories = Understanding the World
The Mobile Context
Story Makes it Relevant
The Social Context
App as Digital Proxy
A Network of People, Devices, and Things
Future Stories
The Evolution of Story
Digital Strategy
Digital Strategy & UX Strategy
A sketch depicting the difference between digital strategy and UX strategy.
User Experience Strategy
The Digital Strategy Process
AUGUST 2012
iOS's Disposable Games
Paleo Mode
Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency
Four Platforms That Are Changing Writing
The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org
iCloud Storage: Many Shallow Ponds
What's Next For The Mac?
Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
From Searches to Apps to Siri
It Works Just Like Your Phone
The New Outlook.com
Designing A Better Email Client
Splitting the Social Network for the Best User Experience
The End of the PC Manufacturers
Uncovering the Compromises of Metro Style Apps
Putting Metro on iOS
JULY 2012
Analyzing The New Mac Ads
The Desktop Is Done, Think Like iOS
Designing Metro Apps on iOS
What Has Microsoft Learned From Metro?
The User Interfaces of CrossFit and Paleo
Understanding OmniFocus: Attention
RIM Honestly
JUNE 2012
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MAY 2012
Re-Reading
APRIL 2012
The Most Enjoyable Reading Experience
Daily Photo Logging with Google+
Three Years of GTD and Things
Improving How I Use Evernote
MARCH 2012
Clear and Paper
Using More of Apple's iOS Apps
Paper by FiftyThree
FEBRUARY 2012
None
JANUARY 2012
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Clear from Realmac Software
It's All For Happiness
A Better Facebook Won't Help You
Brands Faking Human
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Om Malik's 10 Years of Blogging
Gamification Must Be Addictive
A Brand Is Not Your Friend
Although brands can help fill a need and provide relief, they're not real; prioritize real people and quality products.
Shut Up and Take My Money!
Why Can The iPad Be Frustrating?
Making Media Easier
Email Declining
My Initial Experience With iCloud
Thought Process
Advice to Writers by Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's 7 writing tips.
GameStore
2011 Accomplishments
My personal accomplishments in 2011
DECEMBER 2011
CrossFit Update
Publishing Markdown
Because The Market Needs Non-Value Creators
NOVEMBER 2011
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OCTOBER 2011
PayPal's One-Stop Flop
SEPTEMBER 2011
Getting Excited About Computing
Papercut
The Platform Owners Are In Control
Compromise
An Office on Every Surface
AUGUST 2011
Which Platform Is For Creating?
The End of Failure
How the iPad Shattered The PC
My Problem With Anti-Social Networking
What Text Editors Tell us About Apple's Ecosystem
Where's The Innovation?
Give it Your Best Shot
Only The Hard Stuff Matters
Refining The Innovative And The New
Day One and Learning to Journal
Learning to Trash It and Start Over
Making Products Last
The New Air
JULY 2011
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MAY 2011
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Plattan Plus
APRIL 2011
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MARCH 2011
Coffee Hop: March 20, 2011
Blogging and Toastmasters
FEBRUARY 2011
The Prize of Attention
Making
The End of the Feature Economy
The Future of Real-time Chat and Beluga
Put it Down
JANUARY 2011
Being Real About Tools and Work
Thinking About Technology Innovation That Sticks
DECEMBER 2010
A Recap of 2010
A short list of my accomplishments in 2010.
The Value of Tablet Huddle Experiences
F the File System
Get Into a Better Routine
Blogging to Push Ideas
How Evernote Made Remembering Everything Simple
Getting a Slight Idea
Reeder for Mac a Sign of Things to Come
Introducing BM Stack
NOVEMBER 2010
More Focused Writing With OmmWriter
The Importance of Work
Phones That Feel Like Magic
Diluting Brands in the World of Smartphones
Don't Let the Interruption Become Your Focus
Slap On Social
notepad table is a table that is also a notepad. WANT
The Newness and The Promise of Windows Phone 7
Innovating For a Windows Tablet
Going Nowhere Without Mobile
OCTOBER 2010
This Virtuous Circle
The Whole Thing
SEPTEMBER 2010
As Tumblr Changes From Platform To Network
Tumblr is evolving from simple blogging platform to social network.
Start Small
Gowalla
Models to Focus Your Thinking
What happens when all search becomes instant?
Ruthlessly Reveal
Searching for Focus | Ryerson Digital Media Zone
1 Window
Having only a single window open increases focus but creates discomfort; It takes practice.
Pomodoro Everything
Repeated Focus
AUGUST 2010
Attention to Detail Versus Features
Apple's attention to detail wins compared to competitors' feature lists.
Your Ideas And Blogging the Crap Out of Them
Optimal Connections
Trying to Find the Smaller Conversations
When Identity and Blogs Don't Mix
Create Share Consume and Organize
Where I Learn I Suck at Reading, But That's OK
JULY 2010
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JUNE 2010
Something Routine
Best to Wait on Ebooks
Virtual Bookshelves Are a Pain
The Better Tech Conference Survey
MAY 2010
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APRIL 2010
Drumbeat and Project Orange
Drumbeat The Open Web Lens
Drumbeat Will The Internet of Things be Open?
Drumbeat Models for Discussion on the Open Web
MARCH 2010
But What Do You Do?
Malcolm Visits the Zoo
Desktop Mouse Movement
FEBRUARY 2010
What The Heck Makes Tumblr a "Designed" Company
None
JANUARY 2010
Real Virtual-Neighbours Are The Best Kind
Why Do Location Sharing?
Reblogging - Not So Much
Share Your Data
The Sandwich Rebuttal
DECEMBER 2009
Christmas Turkey!
Back. With Style No Less.
Ryerson's Digital Media Zone
Pomodoro Timer by Navel Labs
Notes from Gary V. at DemoCamp24
My First Contribution to TechVibes.com
NOVEMBER 2009
Cloud Factory - Blog - The Surprising Story of Simplenote
SimpleText for Mac client
Notes From Roger Martin on Design Thinking
The Death of The Boring Blog Post?
YouTube Direct
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders
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WriteRoom for iPhone 2.4 now in app store
The Logic Baffles Me
If I Had Asked
Readability2 – A Readability Mod
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
OCTOBER 2009
Driving my Elize in Forza 3
Notes from Gary Vaynerchuk at Rotmans
The rules for computing happiness
Why Do You Fan Companies on Facebook?
Search Ad Search Ad - Recursion Problem?
Adding Some Mint to Real-Time Search
JustNotes
Minimal Mac
Have I Not Explained It All Yet?
Being Obsessive Is Part of The Fun
Could Dropbox Do This? A Business Idea
Tumblr and Posterous In Every Possible Way
SEPTEMBER 2009
Chatting About Event Overload In Toronto
Music made using only sounds from Windows 95 and 98
Pseudo Augmented Reality
My One Keyboard Struggle
Turn Anything Into a Social Something
An Introduction To The New Life-Streaming
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Malcolm is...
AUGUST 2009
Linux + Chrome + Flash
Chrome + CrunchBang Linux
Corporate Control of Social Media
Engagement and The Long Tail of Social Media Discussions
Social Being, Media Meaning
The Power of Framing Social Dialogue
Persistence and Momentum
JULY 2009
My Favourite Korean Dish
Rain in Roncesvalles
My Vibram FiveFingers
The System That Works
The Invisible Bridge
Sentiment Strikes Back
Teaser - Toronto Dev Interview 2
Blog More and Do Less
Sentiment Vs. Engagement in Online Listening
T Cafe
We Notice What We Choose To Notice
JUNE 2009
Curating
Speak Loudly
Ubuntu On Netbooks - NBR VS Keyboard Control With Gnome Do
Renewal
How Can I Improve My Blog For You?
Examining \"Share of Conversation\"
The Next Step For Net Geners
Colemak Keyboard - Still Better Than Dvorak?
MAY 2009
Criticizing Your Friends is Hard
Creating Communities Through Experience Blogs
Listening to Two Conversations is Hard
If You Expect Them to Talk
A Risky Approach to Feedback
What I Want To Podcast
My Goal For The Summer? More Seesmic
At Odds
APRIL 2009
Open Conversations Will Kill Your Company
A Great Storyteller
Storytelling is leadership tool.
Is It A Site? A Business? Or Mostly Just Twitter?
Why I Don't Like New Charities Every Month
Internal Micro Messaging Platforms Are Gold
The Reality Of The Crowds
The Crowds I Own
Twitter Style Redesigns And What They Share
Identity 2.0 - An Introduction to Identity On the Social Web
After The Digital Handshake, What Comes Next?
MARCH 2009
Is This How Brand Squatting Will Be Defeated?
Mind Map of Issues Surrounding Identity 2.0
New Job: Social Media Analyst at Blast Radius
6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009
New Facebook, And Everyone Hates Malcolm
Getting More By Acting Early in Social Media
Are Brands Better Off When They Act Like Their Customers Online?
The Reason That Social Analytics Will Succeed Over Traditional
FEBRUARY 2009
Stop Being So Damned Shady On Twitter
Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future
Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Devide
How Creative Is Your Business Technology?
Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
Some DISQUS and Intense Debate Thoughts - They Both Need Work
Use Your Blog as a Notetaking Tool
GoodBye Tests And Quizes, Hello Comments
Students Are Faced With An Education Problem
Video Review of The Paradox Of Choice
Blogging: The Long Term Relationship
Languages Evolve, Twitter's Should Too
Social Networks as Trust Building Tools
Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7
Creating A River of Web Media Content
Colemak Keyboard Layout - Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak
Recommended Wordpress Plugins For New Bloggers
JANUARY 2009
CrunchBang Linux, Netbooks at High Speed
How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?
Single In, Single Out
Take Your Learning To The Comments
The Real Limit Of Social Media
The York University Strike As A Great Opportunity
Social Media Is Not For You
DECEMBER 2008
With Books Like These, Who Needs School?
Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009
Watch Out - Great Looking Ubuntu Intrepid Apps
Cross Post - Announcing Toronto Dev
The Best Motivational Speakers Say "F*ck"
The Secret to Twitter Monetization Is...
NOVEMBER 2008
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OCTOBER 2008
Zenbe Is A Good Attempt At Enlightened Email
SEPTEMBER 2008
Getting Into The Mixx
In PostRank We Trust
3x3 Lessons From My Summer Reading Part 1
Lessons from my Summer reading, including: The Paradox of Choice, The Dip, and The Laws of Simplicity.
Why Laptops Will Replace Professors
Moving Towards A Self-Hosted Cloud
The Micro-Blogging Enabled Company
AUGUST 2008
Why Laconica Means Big Things For Corporate Micro Blogging
JULY 2008
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JUNE 2008
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MAY 2008
Be Your Own Purple Cow
APRIL 2008
Don't Take This Personally, I'm Blocking You On Twitter
MARCH 2008
Taking A First Look at Digital Marketing
No Battlestar Love?
Who Would Go To A University Unconference?
FEBRUARY 2008
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JANUARY 2008
My 14 Most Valuable RSS Feeds
DECEMBER 2007
4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Four more ways to maximize university.
I've Won "How To Be a Rockstar Freelancer
5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Recommendations on maximizing the benefit you get from university.
NOVEMBER 2007
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OCTOBER 2007
Why BNET.com Is A Really Good Site
SIFE Ryerson With CakePHP
SEPTEMBER 2007
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AUGUST 2007
Fear Of Freedom
In 2 Months
How Free Software Changes The Educationial Culture
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