I’ve always had an Xbox, from the first version to the 360 to the One. As soon as I could connect it to the Internet I did, routing cables everywhere to make it work. Recently I had to move my Xbox to a location that did not have wired access and had to connect it to wifi. Immediately, based on my history and patterns of usage with game systems I immediately went to looking online…
Without a doubt, this is how I feel at the end of every project, big or small when every last detail I’ve wanted to complete is now done and working as I hoped. The guy in the red hood that’s the inner voice telling you it’s good enough, but you know it’s not, you know there is something still left to do, left to give to make it complete in your heart. The girl at…
No matter how boring or interesting the topic – I’m never the person to go in and sit in the front-row. Even if it is someone I know, I’ll never sit at the front. I’ll aim for the middle, never the front. I’m always impressed by the people who go right up to the front each and every time, sitting there, waiting to listen. Whether it is my presenting or me attending – lots of…
When you go to a very large conference, crowd control is of the utmost important requirement – are there too many people in this room, how do we feed 20,000+ people for lunch, how do we keep the flow of the event moving and not have those few people going under the ropes and disrupting everything. It’s definitely not an easy task and one I don’t envy. But it’s one I find myself continually chuckling…
As you attend events or perhaps even learn to immerse yourself in your field of interest to the level where you know a number of the “heavy hitters” you start to shift the attendance of sessions or events based on the presenter and not the content. If the presenter is really that good, you will listen and be engaged with whatever it is their saying. Don’t think it’s true? Next time you have a session…