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Can’t knock the hustle

Someone recently asked my advise about raising their professional profile – as if I would have some kind of insight given I have a certain notoriety in some circles I guess. I waved it off a bit as it was easier in ye olde days – especially at the height of the Twitter community, that…
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An excess of nostalgia

I’ve found myself reminiscing an awful lot lately about the earlier phases of my career. I mean a LOT ~ even for a person of my advanced years. The seat of the pants, make it up as you went along, tiny teams days when the web was open, social media was fun, nobody really understood…
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[Make things open] Open Ancestors
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There are a number of practices that share DNA with my approach to working in the open – but are not the same thing despite similarities in a certain light and from some angles…basically second cousins of what I preach. Here are the ones I think share the most common ancestry; Memoir – not a…
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[Make things open] Reading list
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Not being quite the narcissist I am sometimes accused of I try to recommend other peoples thoughts on working in the open whenever possible. These are my most shared links on the topic;
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[Make things open] The Open Continuum
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Working in the open can seem scary and a bit all or nothing. I suspect I do not help with this with my stories of the extreme ups and downs of the practice and certainly there is some risk…not as much as is often feared but it is there. Being open is not one size…