The Boss of You

Today we’re pulling the wrap­ping paper off some­thing very, very excit­ing.
We are beyond thrilled to unveil a project we’ve been schem­ing about for a few months, which is to bring a chap­ter of the Grass­roots Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion to our home­town of Van­cou­ver.
As some of you may know, the gals who run the Seat­tle Grass­roots Business […]

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In my pre­vi­ous post on this sub­ject, I sug­gested we relax our hold on the myth that we can achieve a per­fect bal­ance between work & per­sonal life, online & offline, etc. This philo­soph­i­cal mus­ing was inspired by the fol­low­ing ques­tion from a friend dur­ing an email con­ver­sa­tion about Twit­ter:
How the hell do you balance […]

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A friend of mine sent me an email today that con­tained 3 ques­tions about Twit­ter. The first two were stan­dard “how-to” ques­tions (inquir­ing about such things as the sim­plest way to send a direct mes­sage), but the last one gave me pause for thought. Here’s what she asked me:
How the hell do you bal­ance your workload […]

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It was March 2007; I was in Austin for South by South­west Inter­ac­tive, the annual gath­er­ing of the tech-geek tribe, and it seemed like Twit­ter was all any­one wanted to talk about.
The Twit­ter server kept crash­ing because every­one at SXSW was using it non­stop: to tweet about the pan­els & keynotes, to find each other, or […]

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