After reading 70 books, Austin Kleon listed his advice on reading more books. I hit my personal adult reading […]
10 Ways to Read More Books Next Year
Favorite Reads in 2014
In 2014, I went everywhere. That’s a topic for another post. But travel means lots and lots of […]
My Warm Gun Talk on OKRs
Is up! Enjoy!
DO DO: A Productivity Game
I’ve been blocked for two days. I kept sitting down at the computer to work, then I’d get […]
Workshop Design
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. ~ Confucius, 450 […]
Where in the World is Wodtke?
As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d share my upcoming workshops and talks Interactions 14 South […]
Why We Can’t Get Things Done
UPCOMING! Tuesday I have a virtual seminar on OKRs! Sign up now to join me. We all have […]
Places Make Us
My Keynote from Midwest UX is available. it is about how, as we make places, places make us […]
Execution is Everything
Every published writer has had it – the people who come up to you and tell you that […]
The Sunday Report
This week has mostly been about writing. I’m revising my book, and I needed a way to make […]
How to Change the World in Four Simple Steps
The world is full of trouble. Racism, sexism, war, greed. You want to make things better, but it […]
The Sunday Report
I’m going to try something new here, and round-up the cool stuff I found each week while doing […]
Cascading Your Objectives and Key Results
In 2014, I was working with startups and this was fine. it is not fine now, and I […]
The Extra-Chunky Internet
When I first read Malcolm Gladwell’s Ketchup Conundrum in 2004, I knew it was important to the work […]
Never Take The Package Deal
If you have met Richard Saul Wurman, you have a Richard Saul Wurman story. Even 37 signals’s Jason […]
Learning from MySpace
Originally published in The Journal of Information Architecture The joy of the city is its diversity. A great city […]
Resources for Drawing Ideas
A few months back, I started a journey. As a painter, I was confident in my ability to […]
What do I call this thing?
Since I started blogging and speaking about OKRs and how to use them, it’s been clear that OKRs […]
Diversity Is Hard
The opening keynote was a woman, the closing keynote a black man. In between there were 16 white […]
Dave Gray Makes a Concept Model
I am currently obsessed with how people diagram and make concept models. I asked Dave Gray, who is […]
An OKR Worksheet
The first time you set OKRs can be a struggle, and many folks make mistakes.
To make setting OKRs the first time easier for companies I help, I’ve written this lightweight worksheet.
101 Theses on the Design of Digital Things
101 disordered theses on design. Originally tweeted and numbering 95, it has been edited for clarity as well […]
OKR Mistakes (and how to fix them)
I’ve been having a lot of great conversations lately about the nitty-gritty of implementing OKRs as people try […]
Customer Development with Participatory Roadmaps
When we talk about Minimum Viable Product, we often forget to discuss what it means to be viable. […]
Designer as Founder Week Five
The big win of the week was an exercise we did together. Students went through the user research […]
For the Nerd People TL;DR
Abstract The paper maintains that in the epistemological shift from postmodernism to pseudo-modernism, technological, economic, social, and cultural […]
Monday Commitments and Friday Wins
Many companies who try OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) fail, and they blame the system. But no system works if […]
Towards a New Information Architecture
Warning: this is part personal history, part personal observations, and as such, it’s riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies […]
Designer As Founder Week Four
I return from Amsterdam to my class in varying states of uncertainty. One is already on their first […]
Heuristics for Living
If you don’t know what a heuristic is, it’s a short phrase that reminds you of a body […]