Last weekend, I helped ArianeK move out of the West End of Vancouver, BC into a lovely house on Commercial Drive. Some lessons learned: 1) If you hire movers, expect that they’ll be three hours late. (Cough ActionMovers cough.) 2) Once you’ve hired the movers, expect that they’re going to drop at least two Frogboxes. [...]
Posts under ‘Life in General’
Taking a Weekend Off
I joke that Saturday and Sunday are just ‘days that start with S’. Tris probably feels the same way, although he said a lot more in “Writer’s Frustration: Taking a Weekend Off”. That feeling like you just can’t take a weekend off, or you’ll be so behind in either cashflow or workflow that you might [...]
On Sanity
This is in response to a post on “The Entrepreneur’s Quest for Balance” by @laurenbacon, who I had the chance to meet at WordCamp Vancouver earlier this month. I saw the ‘Quest for Balance’ and thought ‘self care’ is the wrong word for this. ‘Keeping your sense of humor’ is exactly the right word. (For [...]
Change is in the air. And the web.
In the general craziness of the last few weeks, I forgot something. Something really big. Something possibly life changing. Or at least blog changing. I’ve decided that this freelancing thing is silly. That there are bigger fish to catch, higher mountains, the works.
Surviving as a freelancer, part 1
This is the first in a many part series of how I keep my life together as a freelance project manager. I’ll go over all of the tools that I live and die by, because it’s the question I get asked most often. What tool is going to be my magical robot pony and fix [...]
Networking 101
So if you’re following along and go, ‘zOMG, Amye, there is no way that I know 30 – 60- 90 people to pester’, let me be the first to congratulate you. You’re about to embark on a journey of figuring out exactly how many people you actually know. If you’re on Twitter, think about how [...]
Inspiration in other places
I’ve found myself picking up design books recently and falling in love with the process of how good design happens. It’s also making me think about better design and user experience for the web. Nice to come out of your cave once in a while. Current favorites: Kelly Wearstler, Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected [...]