Where is personal mentoring going?
Nothing is as needed and nothing is as hard to find. Especially today.
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What’s your Field? What’s your Community?
It's the field that determines whether your work has any creative merit. So, here are a few questions to ask.
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How are they using it?
When you develop a solution, have a look at how people are using it. I did program an App that worked well, only the user did not understand how it was supposed to be used and here improvements ... well, read on.
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Tips for Proofreaders and Authors From an Author’s Perspective
Proofreaders are crucial -- not only when non-native speakers publish in English (like me). Here are some helpful tips to facilitate work with proof readers -- you might just get better feedback.
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What’s a Critic’s Opinion Worth?
There's an easy test for whether your critic is actually someone you can depend on for good feedback.
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Whistleblowing
Some comments on Wikileaks, resistance and tips for whistleblowing.
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Too Personal Projects
What do you do when projects are just too personal to share?
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Giving Feedback: The Golden Rule
There is a golden rule for feedback -- only that many people ignore it. With devastating effects.
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Effective and Ineffective Workgroup Meetings
A comparison of meetings that work well and those that do not -- on multiple criteria.
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Wanting to appear competent vs. being competent
When feedback about a presentation was ... completely misunderstood and turned into a real fuck-up, I began to think about competence and how some people seem to chose appearance over performance.
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