2021 was another year where the pandemic seemed to call the shots. While I made much progress, the last few months felt like quite a slog.
Here’s my pandemic year in review:
Continue reading “2021: The good and the bad”2021: The good and the bad
Tag: Productivity
3 personal publishing sins I committed in 2021
I went into 2021 with higher hopes for personal publishing than I produced. It’s no big thing. However, I’m sitting on more blog post ideas than I have time or energy to write.
Here are what I refer to as my three personal publishing sins from 2021:
Continue reading “3 personal publishing sins I committed in 2021”The 5 deadly sins of management overhead
I coined the term management overhead when I was working in a highly politicized environment. VP level management became obstructions to productivity. In some cases, I was on project teams where VPs and directors outnumbered the people who could do the work. Here’s what I like to call the 5 deadly sins of management overhead:
Continue reading “The 5 deadly sins of management overhead”My COVID-19 Tech Stack: It’s all about Communications and Collaboration
During the pandemic, I’ve been fine-tuning my personal technology stack the whole time. My personal attitude about apps is that the application work for me, I don’t work for the application. So while I’m the first person to experiment with a new application, it needs to be easy to use.
Here’s how my current pandemic tech stack looks:
Continue reading “My COVID-19 Tech Stack: It’s all about Communications and Collaboration”A case of the Mondays: COVID-19 edition
I wish I would have written down when my state shutdown because of COVID-19. While I remain thankful that I have a job and career that lets me work from home, It’s getting harder to track the days. I’m setting more reminders, referring to my calendar more, and at peace knowing that I can always ask Alexa what’s the date and time when I wake up.
Anyhow, I blew off this blog last week but for excellent reason. Work got busy. I also had a pitch hit in a new market and had to get writing. Then I had a TechTarget deadline for SearchCloudComputing. Writing is one thing that takes my mind off of being stuck at home because of COVID-19.
Here’s how my Monday went:
- I woke up this morning and knew what day it was without having to ask Alexa, so I’ll take that as a win.
- I had a productive Monday at work and made two deadlines.
- I had the energy, and motivation to exercise before I ate dinner.
- The governor of Virginia — a politician I can’t respect — alluded to the state might enter the first stage of opening up on May 15th and I hope to the heart of hearts he’s not playing around.
Along the way, my Pandemic beard is really growing in after a few weeks of not shaving. If only I could grow a man bun too, but I think that’s too much to hope for at my age. #JustKidding
How did Monday treat you?
Will Kelly 
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