Today is the 1,000th day I have written to clarify some idea, thought, niggle. I’d encourage you to write daily, it clarifies your thoughts like nothing else.
A 1,000 Days of Writing
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Maybe this isn’t for you
I'm in New York as I write this staying in a small minimalist hotel that works for the most part, until I step into the shower. There appears to be no temperature control options for the water. That can't be right, so I step out, look around, step back in look around,...
The Orange Canuck
So it's up, the trailer and first episode of the podcast with more episodes coming soon. It's even on iTunes. There is still much to do, to refine in how I speak, in sound quality, and then the whole website and integration with player etc. but I'll get there. For now...
Reality Check
Dreaming and planning are wonderful. This time of year is full of it and it is acceptable to make resolutions about the year ahead. And while I did not create much time between Christmas and New Year’s for reflection, I found myself lying in bed this morning...
Utter Failure
Have gathered your team together before a project started and done a premortem? That's not a typo, a premortem. Basically, get your team together and imagine being at the end of the project and instead of imagining everything going well...
3 Sites I’ve Built
While I've failed a lot, I've also had some wins. I thought I'd share 3 of the sites I've built and a bit about each one. After learning a bit about HTML and CSS, I dove in and starting trying building sites. The first few I built, I look back on now with a bit of...
Writing David Miliband
I usually don't think much about writing an email, but this one made me pause before pressing send. Writing David Miliband, currently the head of IRC and formerly a top MP in the UK government, is not something I do everyday. David spoke at the CrisisMappers...
Combatting Information Overload in Post-Disaster Contexts
A quick note to share a link to a piece I wrote for the CDAC Network about the Speed Portal and some of the key lessons we learned while implementing it. The Speed Portal is a portal we designed and built a working prototype of, which enables people responding to...
An Information Management Portal
This week saw us launch the Speed Evidence Portal publicly. It was an exciting time for us as it was the culmination of a year of building and testing in countries like Philippines, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, and the UK. The Speed Portal is an information management...