Thank you so much to the ~22 people who showed up for the twenty-second week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Learning'
Whit Hour – Week 22
December 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour
Tags:Career·Clients·Conferences·Consulting·Learning·Mentors and Heroes·Startups·User Experience·Whit Hour
Independently employed? What’s your retirement plan?
December 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Career, Finances
I’ve been independent since August 2008, and prior to that I had been contributing to my company-sponsored 401(k) since college (at each of my three previous full-time jobs). When I went solo, I was given the option to keep my money in my last company’s 401(k) plan indefinitely — but obviously without their matching contributions. [...]
What are you worth?
November 22nd, 2010 · 13 Comments · Consulting, Strategy
Perhaps not coincidentally, I had two totally separate conversations on Sunday within the same theme: how much should I charge? Later that day I tweeted: Several folks responded that they’d like to hear more about my reflection in a blog post, so here it is. One conversation was with a friend who’s interviewing for a [...]
Tags:Career·Consulting·Learning·Strategy
A Book Apart: Empowering Fuzzy Teams in 100 Pages or Less
November 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Pleasure
On Sunday, I reread Jeremy Keith‘s HTML5 for Web Designers, from cover to cover, on the plane to An Event Apart San Diego. I first read it when it arrived on my doorstep in July, but I am in a different mindset now — beginning a new product adventure — and I wanted to refresh [...]
Whit Hour – Week 19
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the ~26 people who showed up for the nineteenth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
Tags:Books·Clients·Consulting·HCI·Learning·Methodology·Software·Usability testing
