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Seattle Mind Camp 5: Sustainable Work/Life Patterns

Bryan Zug — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:43:55 +0000

Kendall Guillemette and I are gonna get a discussion session together at Seattle Mind Camp tomorrow on sustainable work/life patterns. We’re calling it “Seattle Mind Camp 5: Sustainable Work/Life Patterns (…is Calacanis a Saint? Something Else?)”.

See flier below. Some seeds for the discussion –

How do you structure your work?
Is banking on a buyout like saying, “I’m gonna play in the NBA?”
What’re your successes?
Your epic fails?

Also cool — we plan to use an iPhone audio meter to insta-poll the crowd on what we should talk about (if it’s a decent size).

Special shout out to all those who need a refresher on “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”.

10 Best Intranets of 2008

Bryan Zug — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:44:14 +0000

Had coffee with Drupal aficionado Gregory Heller over at Top Pot in downtown Seattle on Tuesday and he pointed me to Jakob Neilson’s new article on the 10 Best Intranets of 2008.

Design seemed to figure directly into business results. Here’s a short money quote –

The productivity gains from polishing the user experience are well worth the cost of going beyond the first design that comes to mind.

My Chumby Just Arrived

Bryan Zug — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:37:35 +0000

My Chumby just arrived — here it is (except mine is black) — and yes, this is a realtime reflection of what it is showing –

Ignite Seattle video featured on Lifehacker

Bryan Zug — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:49:52 +0000

One of the Ignite Seattle videos I produced was featured on Lifehacker this AM.

Wow.

Rob Gruhl’s preso on “How to Buy a Car without Getting Screwed” is a perfect example of why I spend time capturing these snippets of community gatherings.

It’s such a treat to watch these things take on a life of their own and make their way to where they want to go (instead of disappearing into the ether).

Rest of the videos from this last Ignite are on YouTube. Previous ones are on Blip.tv

Thanks to Rob for the presentation and to Brady, Bre, Jessie, and O’Reilly for the opportunity to craft cool community experiences like this.

Barr on Twitter Pitches

Bryan Zug — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:31:13 +0000

Jeff Barr has an interesting post from the other day on Twitter Pitches

Earlier today I coined the phrase TwitterPitching to describe the act of encapsulating an entire business plan within the 140 character limit of a Twitter post.

Nice ‘trim the fat’ communication exercise in an age where attention is the scarce asset.