It’s gonna get messy!(Credit: spydergrrl) As a business analyst, a good portion of my work is to facilitate working sessions with groups of people. They might be a team (even my team) or they might be a disjointed random group…
Source: Despicable Me Nothing irks me more than hearing someone say that they “have to build a deck” or “write a report” before they even mention the actual, you know, content of said deliverable. Especially since it’s pretty easy to…
Podcast Addict app (Credit: spydergrrl) Yesterday, I went out for my first trail run of the season. As I ran, I listened to a CBC Spark podcast which, as usual, was full of random and interesting stories about how tech…
Credit: Perspecsys on Flickr I am curious. I like to play: with toys, with ideas, with tech. And I used to be very scared of hardware until the cloud came along and I started using all of my tech as…
By LPS.1 (own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m going to join a new sports team: The Stanley Cups. Our mission will be to Stanley Cup. We’ll have a Stanley Cup hub, we’ll hire the best Stanley Cup leaders and…
(Credit: Leovalente on PixaBay) Have you ever had a moment when your absolute immersion in something is presented to you on a silver platter as entirely not the norm? When you are suddenly the absolute nerdiest person in a room…
By Doesn’t say [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Confession: Sometimes I question why I’m on social media. This usually happens when I’m having particularly introverted moments. Which of late, seem to be pretty often. And in those moments I silently debate…
A few weeks ago, I made the trek to Minneapolis for the IA Summit. It was my first time and I was pretty excited to have been able to make the trip. The speaker lineup was fantastic, the planned and…
Slide at Shopify (Credit: spydergrrl) I work on an enterprise project with a large constantly-changing project team. People come in and out of the team regularly, which means that we are very reliant on our ability to adapt and work…
By perfectska04, GNOME icon artists via Wikimedia Commons One part of our basement used to be a tech graveyard. If you rummaged around, you might stumble upon some of my favourite pieces: My old 1994 Asus laptop with 2MB (megabytes!!)…