- Sketched Book – So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal Newport
- Sketched Book: Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life – Don Maruska, Jay Perry (2013)
- Reflecting on my growth as a programmer
- Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own
- The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer)
- Sketchnote: Managing Oneself (Peter Drucker)
- Dealing with professional envy
- Sketchnotes: Dave Ley, Jen Nolan, Leo Marland and me at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information’s career panel
- Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha)
- Five things I’ve learned from five awesome years at IBM
- Pre-experiment potluck
- Bridging from intrapreneurship
- Notes from my exit interview with IBM
- Setting things in motion
- Getting ready for my next experiment!
- Decision review: Working at IBM
- On people changing companies
- Using behavioural economics to motivate yourself when working on risky projects
- Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business
- Dealing with intimidating projects
- Wrapping up projects and preparing for the next one
- More reflections on code and consulting
- How to be dispensable, and why you should document and automate yourself out of a job
- Fit for You: Thinking about my priorities
- Limiting my options so that I can focus
- On finding a great job
- On passion and luck
- Finding opportunities in a big company
- Technology evangelists: What we do, how to find and hire one, how to become one
- Sooner or later? Expertise and the new
- Career growth in a large company
- Book: Making Peace with Your Office Life
- Say the steps out loud
- Travel kaizen and the meaning of life
- Imperfection
- Thinking about the path ahead
- Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor
- Women and technical leadership
- In my dreams of wild success
- Technical leadership
- Happiness at work
- Thinking about travel
- Welcome to IBM! Advice for other newcomers like me
- Book recommendations for new grads
- Steeped in collaboration
- Thinking about what I want to do with IBM
- The sweet spot at work
- Moving from testing to development
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid
- Book: On Becoming a Leader
- Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self
- Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career
- Thinking in terms of decades
- Happy Bee-Day to me!
- Finding the sweet spot
- How I got my job at IBM
- Changing hats
- Log your accomplishments
- Leadership and Embracing Challenge
- Yes, I work at a big company
- Mapping my work happiness
- Advice to IT students: Learning to love what you might hate right now
- How to do a lot
- Making a Name for Yourself
- Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk
- Happy BlueDay to me!
- Gen Y Perspective: Why Gen Y Won’t Stay at Jobs that Suck
- Dan Pink
- The way I work
- If you can, teach; If you can’t teach, do
- Work that I love: reflecting on the whats and hows
- Reflecting on time and overtime
- Enough time: a new hire’s reflections
- Getting through the plateau of mediocrity; Picking up the idioms
- Gen Y Growing Up:
- Time management and work boundaries
- A great workday
- When you’re new to the job and everyone knows more than you do
- Add joy to your job title
- Career statement: Helping companies help people connect
- Planning my career – first stages
- Work like you’re showing off: Be the best you can be
- Looking at the puzzle pieces
- Collaboration
- Job search? Company search!
- Found my vertical: HR
- Evangelism
- Microsoft evangelism – tempting!
- Looking for a personal board of advisors
- What does a portfolio for a tech evangelist look like?
- More thoughts on what I want to do with my life
- A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step?
- Three questions for success
- Book: The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One
- Imagining the future
- On programming as a career
- Also not entirely hopeless in a corporate setting
- Connector, Maven, Salesman
- The Power of the Human Spirit
- Surround yourself with exceptional people
