Bowler Nails It

Chris Bowler put up a couple of stellar posts this week that I’d be remiss in not mentioning here. Work to Live offers his thoughts regarding the departure of Steve Jobs as Apple CEO. Really insightful piece that deserves contemplation by so many of us who really love what we do…and sometimes lose sight of […]

Keynoting at Freelance Camp Vancouver

I’m looking forward to delivering a keynote at Freelance Camp Vancouver on Saturday September 10. My keynote is entitled The Productivity Diet: Putting Freedom into Your Freelancing.

ProductiVardy 003: Ever Mac, Evernote and Brett Kelly

This week on my new-ish podcast, ProductiVardy, I discussed my latest addition to our Apple household, offer up a trick I use to help search through Evernote in the Practical Practices segment, and have a great chat with the author of the ultimate guide to Evernote, Evernote Essentials, fellow productivity personality and fine Internet friend,

Decluttering iStuff: Mac Writing Applications

It’s fitting that this is the first week I begin culling the underused applications from my Mac, seeing as I’ve just acquired a shiny new 11-inch MacBook Air. My old machine (2007 model 15-inch MacBook Pro) was equipped with a 320 GB hard drive. Even by going for the higher end stock unit, my new notebook

You Gotta Listen

While I have delivered my essential podcast subscriptions here recently, this week I’d be remiss if I didn’t recommend some one-off episodes that “you gotta listen” to1: Back to Work: Rob Corddry and Jonathan Coulton With Dan Benjamin on parental sabbatical, Merlin Mann has brought in a couple of linchpins to chat with in Childrens

Thanks, Steve

I have had a “coming and going” relationship with Apple during my lifetime. The first computer I ever had was an Apple IIc, back when all of my friends had Commodore 64s. As a middle-school aged kid, I wasn’t terribly impressed by the monochrome screen that seemed as small as the little television we took

Take an iBow, Mr. Jobs

You done good. Real good. Like reinventing the “way many of us live” good.1 1 I’ll offer more on Steve Jobs in an article later this week…but here’s a bit of “eventual” nostalgia to tide you over until then.

What Me Believes In

Candle by Paddywax. Pencil by Uniball. Notebook by Moleskine. Computer by Apple.1 1 Believing by Me in this. And this.

A Patriot Lost

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” — Jack Layton, 1950-2011 I had other things that I had planned to write today. But when my wife phoned me this morning to tell