Time to read: 3 minutesHappy New Year!! And welcome to a new edition of the Linear Calendar. I use it to plan projects at work, and visualise my whole year in one shot in my personal life, mainly for the purpose of planning my holidays. For the personal holiday planning I use the poster format printed at 85% on […] continue reading »
Time to read: 6 minutesA few weeks ago I ran a small ideation & affinity mapping workshop with some colleagues on the theme of Inclusion. And I want to tell you what we discovered. What’s a DE&I activity? The premise of the workshop was simple. I needed to put together a proposed budget for DE&I activities in the coming […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutesToday I was advertised a lovely-looking wine subscription box. Seems genuinely smart, as it asks you flsvour preference questions, like “the evening is winding down, are you most likely to reach for a platter of cheese, a sponge cake, or macarons?”. But. Like many other services like it, it does not account for managing selections […] continue reading »
Time to read: 5 minutesWhen was the last time you asked yourself “why am I here”? And I don’t mean in the context of a three-hour meeting that is not needing your expertise after all… I mean existentially. As in, “Am I going to accomplish anything more in this life than turning food into shit?” (Leonardo Da Vinci thought […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesHappy 2022!! Here is the 2022-2023 edition of the Linear Calendar! Starts from today… because why should we worry about the past :) This year marks the introduction of a 4th edition: the tape. I have been using the linear calendar to plan every single project in the past 7 years, and in the past […] continue reading »
Time to read: 4 minutesOf all the things that the lockdown has robbed me of, I believe that lunches are the one I miss the most. Going out to get lunch with colleagues was not easy. My colleagues are 85% men, and tend to power-walk everywhere. I am shorter than them, so I never wore heels because heels make […] continue reading »
Time to read: 8 minutesHave you ever had to put a UX portfolio together? I have. And I’ve had to go through bunches of them when interviewing people, trying to decide who might be a good future colleague. It’s very difficult. I recently participated in a portfolio feedback session with MA students in User eXperience (UX) in which another […] continue reading »
Time to read: 5 minutesWhat is good How do you decide what makes a book good, or even the best? I use a simple litmus test. If I want to give it as a gift, or recommend it for a read, then it’s worth something. If a few months later I forget, what it was it even said, then […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesLinear Calendar turns 6! I started the Linear Calendar in 2015, so this year it turns 6!! Six is also the number of people who contact me every year asking me if I’m making a new edition… usually around late January, because I have been lazy. Except this year. Somehow, this year, I sat down […] continue reading »
Time to read: 6 minutesThe tagline of NaNoWriMo is “50’000 words in 30 days”. It’s a quantity over quality challenge, but even if you don’t care how bad what you write is, you still need to have a theme or story you can keep writing about. I’ve tried all sorts of topics In 2010, I “won” NaNo. I finished […] continue reading »