A few months ago I tried out ChromeFlex. This is a version of ChromeOS that's easy to install on traditional laptops. I had an old Surface Pro 3 machine which was collecting dust. It just waited for me to carry it to electronics recycling. As it turns out, ChromeFlex gave it another lease on life. The installation was easy. You create a bootable USB drive via a Chrome browser extension. Then you can choose whether […]
A document-based culture is only as good as its documents. Here are a few tips to improve your docs.
Scott Hanselman gave a talk in 2012 called "Scaling Yourself " about personal productivity and not burning out.<footnote>As I learned today, he since has given a variant of that talk dozens of times and it probably has improved. However, I saw the 2012 version.</footnote> I would say it's more relevant today than it has been then. A lot of us have been working from home since early 2020. We've had to re-arrange childcare, supervise remote […]
Onboarding is a bigger deal for your new hires than it is for you. They will remember it, one way or another. Make sure those are good memories.
If you like podcasts, keep reading. If you don't, you can stop here – the rest is probably not interesting for you. Have you ever received a YouTube link to a talk that you wanted to watch, but never got around to it? Or did somebody recommend you this one episode of a podcast, but you didn't want to subscribe to the entire podcast? HuffDuffer is a service that let's you pinpoint interesting MP3 files so that they […]