The Curious Engineer

Scott Berkun

2008–2026

1,359 posts

← 2003–2007

2026 3

October 2026

  1. How To Live: Book Excerpt and TOC

April 2026

  1. Help shape my next 20 years: Berkun 2.0

March 2026

  1. Top 20 lessons from Making Things Happen

2025 3

November 2025

  1. Why Design Is Hard, Keynote Video

September 2025

  1. Beyond the Myths of Innovation: Live

June 2025

  1. New book update: Rules to live by

2024 2

November 2024

  1. When should my free office hours happen?

September 2024

  1. Why Design Is Hard (new book)

2022 2

March 2022

  1. Leading Design 2022: Live Notes
  2. A big update on my last few months

2021 16

September 2021

  1. I’m for hire for FT role (an explanation)

June 2021

  1. Audiobook for How Design Makes The World

May 2021

  1. The Greatest Design Lessons: Tue. June 8th (live)
  2. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
  3. The Lost Designer

March 2021

  1. Management of the Absurd
  2. The Insider’s Guide To Evangelizing Good Design
  3. Event: Beyond How Design Makes The World
  4. Are You a Self-Limiting Designer?
  5. The Best of My 20 Years of Writing on Design
  6. Leading Design Festival 2021 – Live Notes

February 2021

  1. What we can learn from vaccine website failures (Fast Company)
  2. How Design Makes The World: Typos and corrections?
  3. UX Design: The most difficult concepts to explain (list)
  4. How To Put Faith in Design

January 2021

  1. Do you teach with my book? Get in touch for a custom video

2020 21

November 2020

  1. My answers to the Proust Questionnaire: What Are Yours?
  2. Sale Today: 50% off paperback edition of How Design Makes The World

October 2020

  1. Audiobooks are finally here

September 2020

  1. Lessons from the Xerox-914: the first copy machine

June 2020

  1. Design hero: Chuck Harrison
  2. Police Reform and Systems Design in 5 Clear Points

May 2020

  1. Bring Berkun and How Design Makes The World to your team meeting
  2. Available now: How Design Makes The World (+trailer)

April 2020

  1. (video) 5 minutes to explain How Design Makes the World
  2. LIST: 60+ well designed everyday things that go unnoticed
  3. Free Chapters from How Design Makes The World
  4. It’s Time To Learn

March 2020

  1. Want a better world, by design? Join the street team
  2. Design During Pandemic: a Visual History
  3. The World Needs Designers Now More Than Ever
  4. Free digital version of The Year Without Pants (my book on Remote Work)

February 2020

  1. Wanted: Ambassadors For Good Design
  2. My new book – How Design Makes The World (Coming Soon)
  3. What’s the best first book on visual / graphic design?

January 2020

  1. Free pass to Interaction 20
  2. Help wanted: motion graphics / video for book launch trailer

2019 3

November 2019

  1. Cover design vote: How Design Makes The World (first round)

April 2019

  1. Help wanted: design literacy for everyone project
  2. Public Speaking Workshop: April 8th 6:30pm

2018 17

September 2018

  1. Public Speaking Workshop: open to all this October

May 2018

  1. UX Lisbon 2018 – Talk Notes
  2. How Creative Friction Can Help Your Team

April 2018

  1. FREE Today: The Dance of The Possible on Kindle
  2. Why Designers Hate Politics (And What To Do About It)

March 2018

  1. The Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill and Quality
  2. How and Why To Ask Better Questions
  3. The Questions To Ask About The News
  4. The proof that we’re all creative: losing your keys

February 2018

  1. Are engineers more creative than designers?
  2. Has Your Boss Set You Up To Succeed or Fail?
  3. What makes a book a good read?
  4. Which is more dangerous: writing badly or reading poorly?

January 2018

  1. Star Trek and the ideas we must reject to save our future
  2. Contest: Take a photo and win free signed books (+$100)
  3. How to master the ways to say NO
  4. Does the attention economy make life harder for creatives?

2017 24

December 2017

  1. How Can You Recognize a Wise Person When You Meet One?
  2. The Last Jedi and Suspension of Disbelief
  3. Why Remote Workers Fail

November 2017

  1. Why The Right Change Often Feels Wrong
  2. How can you know someone’s true motives?
  3. The Pay-To-Stress Ratio

October 2017

  1. Why do people fall into the trap of the narcissist?
  2. Why do so many managers have poor people skills?
  3. Why Do We Avoid What is Good For Us?

September 2017

  1. Notes from Seanwes conference 2017
  2. Notes from Business of Software Conference 2017
  3. Notes from Mind The Product 2017

August 2017

  1. Notes from PPP 2017 Chicago

June 2017

  1. Netflix’s updated guide to culture – an analysis & commentary

April 2017

  1. Does “think outside the box” help? Popular creativity cliches explained

March 2017

  1. What We Can Learn From The Eiffel Tower
  2. Dance of the Possible: Launch Recap (w/ Photos)

February 2017

  1. How Ignorance Drives Creativity
  2. Inside the messy invention of the microwave oven
  3. How the Post-it Note Was Invented
  4. Why no one cared about the Wright brothers airplane
  5. The Dance of the Possible

January 2017

  1. Orwell’s Animal Farm – Book Review
  2. Hidden Insight and The Third Donkey

2016 20

December 2016

  1. 2016 Post-Election Sanity Guide

November 2016

  1. Eight lessons from Nazi Propaganda
  2. New Release: Updated Edition of The Ghost of My Father

October 2016

  1. Notes from Leading Design 2016
  2. Notes from Digital PM Summit 2016

September 2016

  1. On The Quest For Fun

August 2016

  1. The 7 Questions For Any Tradition
  2. The Real World of Technology (Book Review)
  3. The 7 Questions For Any Technological Idea

July 2016

  1. Staying Sane In An Insane World
  2. Quote of the week, from Viggo Mortensen

June 2016

  1. Five Ways To Survive Fathers Day

May 2016

  1. How To Be a Better Speaker – The Short Honest Truth
  2. The Simple Plan for People Who Want To Solve Big Problems

March 2016

  1. The Real Reasons Why We Vote The Way We Do
  2. Why Do Idiots Get Ahead?

February 2016

  1. My Eight Favorite Podcasts

January 2016

  1. 8 Reasons To Take My Public Speaking Workshop (April in Seattle)
  2. iPhone vs. Light Switch: which invention is more impressive?
  3. Creativity Is Not An Accident

2015 48

December 2015

  1. My Best Posts of 2015
  2. The Problems with ‘Best Of’ Lists

November 2015

  1. Holiday Music That Won’t Kill You: A List
  2. 5 Things I Learned From My Amtrak Writer’s Residency

October 2015

  1. Help me plan my Amtrak Writers Residency

September 2015

  1. The Advice Paradox
  2. Questions For The Next Design Revolution

August 2015

  1. The Mistakes Of Writing About Company Culture

July 2015

  1. Designers, Morality and the AK-47
  2. Live Notes from World Domination Summit 2015
  3. The Many Mothers of Invention

June 2015

  1. The Four Lies of Storytelling

May 2015

  1. We Are All Politicians
  2. Giveaway: A Ticket to World Domination Summit 2015
  3. Coming Soon: Updated Edition of Ghost of My Father
  4. My Burnout Update

April 2015

  1. Poll: Help me name an important event
  2. My Creative Burnout
  3. How to Ignore Pessimistic Family and Friends

March 2015

  1. Irreverent Roundup of Writing Advice (Q&A)
  2. What Questions Never Leave You?
  3. Starting Today: Berkun Book Club / Making Things Happen
  4. How To Write A Memoir
  5. How Do You Know When You’re Done?
  6. Can bad workplace communication be fixed? An interview with Phil Simon

February 2015

  1. Reading Group: Making Things Happen (Starts now)
  2. 28 (Better) Things No One Tells You About Publishing
  3. Live Q&A: How To Write a Memoir
  4. How does physical fitness help productivity?
  5. Live Q&A: When should it be?
  6. Quote of the week: Pesca on Williams, Stewart and the Truth
  7. The Night of The Gun, Review
  8. How Do You Make People Think?
  9. The Paradox of Expertise
  10. Why You Need To Watch Bitter Lake
  11. The Burdens of Expertise
  12. Apologies for the last post (if you saw it)

January 2015

  1. Edison did not invent the lightbulb (The Myth of The Lone Inventor)
  2. Should you fix or cheat a broken system?
  3. Why has innovation slowed down? (Or has it?)
  4. How much do authors really earn? Some answers
  5. I’m Overwhelmed By Fear. How Do I Gain Confidence?
  6. What I learned at the Civil Rights Museum / MLK
  7. My Writing Process: A summary of writing on writing
  8. The Myth of Epiphany
  9. Why Small Ideas Can Matter More Than Big Ideas
  10. 3 reasons you should see the movie Wild (if you’re a writer)
  11. Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?

2014 109

December 2014

  1. How can Obama & Congress foster innovation in 2015?
  2. The Distraction-Free Life?
  3. Saving Your Creative Soul (video)
  4. The Myths of Innovation: in 10 crazy acronyms?
  5. Who influences me as an influencer?
  6. 5 reasons to read The Ghost of My Father
  7. How To Design A Book Cover (The Ghost of My Father)
  8. The Rules I Live By
  9. The Importance of What You Say

November 2014

  1. List of Famous People Estranged From Their Parents
  2. Life as Reinvention
  3. The Apprentices of The Future
  4. My Next Book? The Atheist of Jerusalem
  5. Notes from visiting the WWII museum on Veterans Day

October 2014

  1. Help wanted: researcher & photographer for next book
  2. Is it common to be estranged from family? Research results
  3. On Sale NOW – The Ghost of My Father – Launch Day
  4. FAQ about The Ghost of My Father
  5. Help me launch the new book Today
  6. Early reviewers wanted for my next book
  7. The best memoirs I’ve read: a list
  8. The 5 Worst Fathers Of All Time
  9. Exclusive: Read the first chapter of my next book
  10. I’m on tour in the Southeast this month

September 2014

  1. Finalist in the Amtrak Writers in Residency Program
  2. An offline design magazine: Offscreen
  3. New design of scottberkun.com is live
  4. New site design launches Monday
  5. Questions for a bad question
  6. Can You Have a Career In Solving Big World Problems?
  7. Did you read Making Things Happen? Anniversary soon

August 2014

  1. Why Bad Odds Can Be Good For You
  2. Drawings inspired by The Myths of Innovation
  3. Why I Love Bukowski (and my favorite quotes)
  4. Book Review: The True Believer – Thoughts on The Nature of Mass Movements
  5. Copyeditor wanted: for The Ghost of My Father (memoir)
  6. Why The Best Idea Doesn’t Always Win
  7. My Automattic Anniversary
  8. Speaking at Seattle’s Robots, Writers & Ciders

July 2014

  1. How To Pitch Ideas: Q&A
  2. Vote On The Cover Design: Final Round
  3. Snowpiercer: Movie Review
  4. How To Get Out Of A Bad Habit
  5. Notes from World Domination Summit 2014

June 2014

  1. 5 Questions that decide if Facebook crossed the line
  2. Why You Are Not Drowning In Data
  3. The doors of Paris: a photo essay
  4. Back my next book on Kickstarter today
  5. Results: What do readers want from author kickstarter projects
  6. Can technology reduce consumerism?
  7. What’s the best kickstarter reward for a book?

May 2014

  1. Lessons from working on the 3rd draft (The Ghost of My Father)
  2. Feedback wanted: redesign sketches for scottberkun.com
  3. Vote on The Cover of My Next Book
  4. How do you transform fear?
  5. Redesign: How can my website better serve you? An invitation

April 2014

  1. Min / Max Note Taking for Conferences
  2. Why Culture Always Wins (An Excerpt from The Year Without Pants)
  3. A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture”
  4. Life Under Surveillance: Snowden, NSA and America
  5. Web designer wanted for work on scottberkun.com
  6. When My Parents Separated
  7. Mindfire book is FREE today: download it here
  8. Please Don’t Be Generic (When sending LinkedIn requests)
  9. Noah: movie review (Spoiler Free)
  10. Book Review: Smarter Than You Think
  11. How Events & Conferences Should End

March 2014

  1. Improving the User Experience of (User Experience) Conferences
  2. What does a good father do?
  3. How To Convince Your Boss To Try Something New
  4. How do *you* eat Pho?
  5. How Remote Work Improves Diversity
  6. Free Webinar: Future of Work & The Year Without Pants (3/27)
  7. Signed copy of The Year Without Pants to First 10 commenters
  8. Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem & The Myths of Innovation (NYTimes.com)
  9. The First Time I Saw The Web
  10. The Three Writing Mindsets
  11. Remote work @ WordPress.com by the numbers (Infographic)
  12. Have we reached the death of the author? (Publishing and Poverty)
  13. Why Fathers And Children Don’t Get Along
  14. Famous programmer Leaves Google Because of Remote Work Ban

February 2014

  1. The Goal of My Life Explained (tattoo included)
  2. What If Managers Didn’t Get Paid More?
  3. FAQ about The Year Without Pants (with satisfying answers)
  4. Should you ban Woody Allen’s films?
  5. Why I Loved Webstock & What Organizers Can Learn
  6. Speaking In Portland next week (Thurs/Fri)
  7. Buy The Year Without Pants 50% off (Ebook / DRM Free)
  8. Why Speed Reading Is For Fools
  9. (Book Review) The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
  10. Big Questions for “Secret Ingredient for Success” (NYTimes)
  11. When Did You Last Change Your Mind?

January 2014

  1. What is the nature of friendship in an era of Facebook? An opinion
  2. Q&A from Toughest Public Speaking Situations
  3. Can Free Speech Survive The Social Media Mob? (Video / Slides)
  4. Book Review: Writing On the Wall – The First 2000 Years of Social Media
  5. Compiled list: Legal cases related to online harassment & free speech
  6. scottberkun.com may be down this morning
  7. Lecture Wed 1/22: Free Speech and Social Media (Seattle)
  8. Kindle editions on sale today: $3.49 (act fast)
  9. What are the toughest public speaking situations?
  10. Social Media, Free Speech and the Mob: input wanted
  11. Issues with scottberkun.com
  12. How To Handle A Heckler
  13. How I Decide What To Read
  14. When Is Something Worth Teaching?
  15. Why It’s Ok To Be Average
  16. When is it ethical to sell low quality products?
  17. How to Overcome Cynicism

2013 172

December 2013

  1. My Most Popular Posts of 2013
  2. Why I’m Posting daily in January 2014
  3. What designers can learn from the AK-47
  4. How to present well without slides
  5. The 3 best books I read in 2013
  6. Banning Something Makes It Powerful
  7. Why Writers Are Cranky

November 2013

  1. The Dangers of Faith In Data
  2. The Year Without Pants Cover: how it was designed
  3. What I Learned At Hiroshima (In Photos)
  4. Amazon.com names The Year Without Pants a best book of 2013
  5. Meeting the Street Poet of NYC

October 2013

  1. Video: The Year Without Pants lecture (@Google NYC)
  2. Updated: Speaking checklist for great talks (Printable)
  3. SF/Bay Area Book Tour, 2013
  4. Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required, by 37Signals
  5. Working For Free: An Argument
  6. Do You Need That Meeting?
  7. Stories from Book Tour Day 1 (w/photos)
  8. How to transition a team to remote work
  9. Should you marry and have kids?
  10. My letter to the Next Microsoft CEO (BusinessWeek)
  11. Why the book is called The Year Without Pants (the real reason)
  12. Why Consultants Should Get “Real” Jobs (HBR)
  13. Gravity: movie review (spoiler free)
  14. Archive of articles I’ve written elsewhere
  15. Q&A about The Year Without Pants

September 2013

  1. The Best Narrative Books about Making Software
  2. My Return to WordPress.com
  3. Mega list of Remote Work Tips and Tricks
  4. The Year Without Pants v1: Typos and corrections
  5. How To Change A Company
  6. And the signed book goes to…
  7. Pantless at 7000 feet
  8. Ten Great Reasons To Try The Year Without Pants
  9. Year Without Pants: Launch Party in Seattle (Photos)
  10. List of Year Without Pants reviews & mentions
  11. On Sale NOW: The Year Without Pants
  12. How To Help with Book Launch (Today)
  13. The 7 things authors do before book launch day
  14. Does your charity want pants? (Seattle)
  15. The Year Without Pants: Official Movie Trailer
  16. Book Tour Schedule 2013 (Year Without Pants)
  17. Free chapter: The Year Without Pants
  18. Labor day: facts on the future and present of work
  19. I’m posting daily until YWP launches (and I’ll explain why)
  20. Sept 17th: Official Launch for The Year Without Pants (details)

August 2013

  1. You Pick The Ad for My Book (Get a signed copy of The Year Without Pants)
  2. The Year Without Pants: The Movie
  3. Don’t Be Precious (with your ideas)
  4. How to survive and thrive with multiple stakeholders
  5. Why do we accept bad systems?
  6. Scoble’s review of The Year Without Pants

July 2013

  1. Facts and Myths about Remote work
  2. Why I’m making a film about Seattle
  3. Advice on visiting Tokyo for first time?
  4. Should your book be a memoir or fiction?
  5. Thoughts on Death to Bullshit & Information Overload
  6. Are Hospitals More Important Than Art?
  7. Why Do Some Innovations Spread Slowly?
  8. How to make smart project decisions: the checklist
  9. Best Book On Self Publishing: APE – Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
  10. How to read an amazon.com book review
  11. Understanding Detroit: Detropia (documentary review)
  12. What is the meaning of life? (and why do people keep asking)
  13. What To Expect If You Follow Me on Twitter
  14. The law does not guarantee justice
  15. Book Review: Jung’s Man and His Symbols
  16. How To Work With Stupid People
  17. Inside Buckminster Fuller’s house (w/ photos)
  18. NYC/Boston: Book tour venues wanted
  19. Why is Our Civilization Dying?
  20. Help Wanted: Marketing / research assistant
  21. Want an early copy of The Year Without Pants? (exclusive)
  22. Book review: Your First 1000 copies – a guide to marketing books
  23. New site feature: Control My Mind (Ask Berkun)

June 2013

  1. Movie review: Tales From The Script (The business of writing films)
  2. How Do You Build a Culture of Healthy Debate?
  3. When to quit working for a bully?
  4. Should you self publish your first book?
  5. Book Review: Designing Together
  6. How to Find Your Niche In Life
  7. My process for blogging
  8. Q&A Monday: ask me your questions
  9. Changing your life is not a (mid-life) crisis
  10. The Year Without Pants: early praise and reviews
  11. How To Write a Second Draft
  12. Book Review: Good Prose – The Art of Non Fiction
  13. How Pulp Fiction was written (and rejected)
  14. The Meaninglessness of Google Glass
  15. Would you hire me? Resume from 1994
  16. When In Doubt, Make a List
  17. Are you important? (Emotions vs. Actions)
  18. Blog Community Panel: Summary (WordCamp Seattle)
  19. How to Meet Your Hero
  20. Book Review: Microinteractions
  21. The Idiot Ratio

May 2013

  1. Why Do Communities Thrive or Die? Questions wanted
  2. Summary: Best Posts on Getting Feedback
  3. Saving Your Creative Soul
  4. Why hats and iPads are speaking mistakes

April 2013

  1. Why I’m not a fan of teams or religions
  2. Truths, myths and lies
  3. Why It’s OK To Buy Books And Not Read Them
  4. What I learned From Improv Class
  5. On Getting Old(er)
  6. Don’t Go Back to School: Book Review
  7. How to Build A Billion Dollar Company (A critique)
  8. How to Get Better Feedback
  9. Notes from TedxDePaul 2013
  10. The Best Definition of Innovation
  11. Why I sit in the back row at conferences
  12. The 177 truths of innovation

March 2013

  1. The Great Gatsby: Book Review
  2. The 177 Myths of Innovation & Creativity: Mega summary
  3. Thanks for helping spread Mindfire (the report in numbers)
  4. Vote on the cover for my next book
  5. The Ten Myths of Innovation: the best summary (Updated)
  6. Why We Love Sociopaths: Interview
  7. How to get your name in my books
  8. Learning from how Mindfire was made
  9. Making Things Happen: Kindle edition news
  10. Get Mindfire 1.1 Free for the next 48 hours
  11. Blame the speaker or the organizer?
  12. Tomorrow get Mindfire 1.1 for free
  13. Why you can’t ignore Big Data
  14. Why We Love Sociopaths: Book Review
  15. How to design a great book cover (Behind the scenes)
  16. Simple isn’t always good
  17. Mindfire 1.1 Launch: Wednesday 3/20 – help wanted
  18. Why schedules help even when they’re wrong
  19. Upcoming speaking engagements near you (Bellevue, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego)
  20. The Top Women Innovators of All Time
  21. A class full of The Myths of Innovation
  22. What work traditions need to go away?
  23. Grand summary of posts on Remote work & Yahoo

February 2013

  1. In Defense of Remote work (and Marissa Mayer)
  2. How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
  3. On What Your Culture Really Says
  4. How do you hire for culture?
  5. How many people really work from home? (research summary)
  6. Announcing guest posts by Shawn Prenzlow
  7. Used copies of Mindfire selling for $300+
  8. Two ways to write: with your gut or with your head
  9. The Redemption of Jonah Lehrer?
  10. Advice for speakers bored with their own material
  11. Meet me in Dublin next week
  12. Why you should pick your own boss
  13. How to learn from a nuclear missile

January 2013

  1. Research assistant wanted
  2. How to revise a first draft
  3. What rules do good friends follow? (thoughts wanted)
  4. Learning about management from open source projects
  5. The Meaningful is greater than the Improbable
  6. How to Run a Good Workshop
  7. You are not what you measure
  8. Damp garbage and the writing process
  9. How To Write A Good Bio
  10. The Best Books On Public Speaking
  11. Your Notebook Fundamentalism Is a Shame
  12. Liberals vs. Conservatives is a False Dichotomy
  13. How to get from an idea to a book
  14. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: Book Review
  15. Is a college degree worth it?
  16. The three things you always have
  17. Next book to be published by Wiley / Jossey-Bass (with FAQ)
  18. Best of Berkun
  19. Good Beats Innovative Nearly Every Time
  20. The Amazing Invention of Braille
  21. Quit your whining
  22. We Learn Nothing: Book Review
  23. Nexus: a sci-fi novel of a post-human future

2012 130

December 2012

  1. Great talk: Life on a Möbius Strip
  2. Mind over mind: book review
  3. Quote of the month: Steinbeck on writing
  4. Steinbeck’s advice on getting started
  5. How to Thank a Customer
  6. What I learned going back to UX school
  7. Calling London: Anyone want me to speak?
  8. The truth about choosing book titles
  9. Vote for the title of my next book

November 2012

  1. Do you want a bar in your workplace?
  2. Extreme Makeover: Bad Marketing Email
  3. 99 second presentations
  4. The Art of Explanation (book)
  5. Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds
  6. Idea beginnings and endings
  7. Lessons from 24 hours offline
  8. Eight ways to avoid killing your family over the holidays
  9. What I learned from Powerpoint Karaoke
  10. John Cleese on Creativity
  11. The hypocrisy of bosses asking for ideas
  12. How To Find Your Voice
  13. Best posts of the month (October)
  14. How to be a great host (at Ignite)
  15. Seven Problems with American Elections
  16. How to make a good book from a blog

October 2012

  1. How much vacation would you take if you could?
  2. Bob Ross, Picasso and Creativity
  3. Quote of the day
  4. Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Instincts
  5. Notes from Failcon 2012 – part 2
  6. My slides from Failcon 2012
  7. Notes from Failcon 2012 – part 1
  8. Poll Results: Would you work from home?
  9. Quote of the day
  10. Would you work from home if you could? (Poll)
  11. New site is live: report any issues here
  12. Can self-awareness be taught?
  13. How to be good at anything
  14. Quote of the week
  15. The history of religion: explained
  16. Are design exercises in interviews unethical?
  17. Does Your Workplace Affect Creativity? Mostly No
  18. What should you do when stranger sends high priority email?
  19. Fermat and ideas are made of other ideas
  20. Is ‘being spiritual’ a cop-out?

September 2012

  1. Site news: new design coming soon (sneak preview)
  2. Innovation is an illusion
  3. I answer MBA student questions about Innovation
  4. News: I’m working on a UX book with Jackson Fish
  5. Haiku Deck: a simple way to make better presentations (review)
  6. Why we’re wrong about the phone of the future
  7. Open letter to Americans about our politics
  8. Man’s Search for Meaning: Book Review
  9. On Free Speech vs. Religious Respect: in five sentences
  10. What I learned from losing a leg
  11. 9 ways to understand how ideas spread
  12. Last call: Mindfire photos wanted
  13. The Math and Aftermath of 9/11
  14. Free Ticket to XOXO event in Portland, 9/13-9/15
  15. Researching and writing the next book
  16. Lessons learned from my bad habits

August 2012

  1. Get your name in Mindfire 1.1: just take a picture!
  2. Lessons from blogging every day
  3. WordPress dev wanted for scottberkun.com
  4. The paradox of political leaders
  5. The first scoop on my next book
  6. Why you should come to Ignite Seattle 17 (Sunday August 19th)
  7. Why I hate Prezi
  8. The culture of the scapegoat
  9. Commutapult: the great commute of the future
  10. Jonah Lehrer and the facts

July 2012

  1. The hard way is the easy way
  2. Does dedicated innovation time work?
  3. The tyranny of category
  4. How To Be Creative – The Short Honest Truth
  5. Best posts of the month

June 2012

  1. The future of outsourcing
  2. Trinity: a graphic history of the Atomic bomb (review)
  3. Top Gun in Hecklevision: review
  4. Listen to my interview with NPR on innovation
  5. I’ll be on NPR Tuesday 6/19, 1pm EST (WGBH – Boston)
  6. Quote of the month
  7. News: I’m independent again
  8. The three piles of life
  9. Johnny Mnemonic in Hecklevision: review
  10. Prometheus review

May 2012

  1. Triple inspired by a film: Girl Walk All Day
  2. I’ll be on CNN at 12:40 EST today
  3. The best thing this year: a list
  4. The Idiot Theory of News
  5. my NPR interview about great speeches
  6. What makes a good commencement speech?
  7. Speaking in Chicago: Monday May 21st 2pm, Creativity
  8. Why Common Sense is Not Common Practice
  9. Quote of the week
  10. Everything is a Bubble
  11. How To Get Paid To Speak

April 2012

  1. Quote of the month
  2. What are the superstitions of our age?
  3. How to Make Things Happen
  4. Lessons on Failure From the Jetpack Joyride game
  5. How to discuss politics with friends and family, Version 2.0
  6. What To Do When Things Go Wrong
  7. Jiro Dreams of Sushi: movie review
  8. Ideas vs. Time: how long does an idea take to develop?
  9. Mindfire: Typos wanted

March 2012

  1. Software Is Not Epic
  2. How to become a motivational speaker
  3. What does “motivational speaker” mean to you?
  4. On Writing vs. Speaking
  5. On Truth, Daisey and This American Life
  6. Upcoming speaking events
  7. Are societies more against individuals than ever?
  8. Syallabus for my Creative Thinking Course
  9. Quote of the day: Woody Guthrie / Born Naked

February 2012

  1. Mindfire #33 book on Kindle for Philosophy
  2. Creative Thinking Hacks: Video
  3. Glass & Glass on creativity
  4. The problem with The New Groupthink
  5. Quote of the day
  6. In Defense of Brainstorming
  7. Edison vs. Tesla: two approaches to problem solving
  8. Livestream 9am PST: Creative thinking hacks
  9. The 5 best books on Innovation EVER

January 2012

  1. The top mistakes UX designers make
  2. Is speaking easier than writing? Some advice
  3. On Insecurity and Writing
  4. Quote of the day
  5. What should I talk about? (Puget Sound SIG-CHI)
  6. Self-publishing vs. working with O’Reilly Media

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December 2011

  1. Quote of the day
  2. Quote of the day
  3. How WordPress.com is made
  4. Quote of the day
  5. The gift of Innovation (photo)
  6. Amazing list of what people want me to write
  7. Quote of the day
  8. The secret life of blurbs
  9. Mindfire Day: the summary
  10. Sorry if you lost a comment
  11. Do crazy innovations affect serious subjects?
  12. When is it time to quit a job to follow a dream?
  13. Can you thrive on a sinking ship?
  14. Today is Mindfire day: Details for how to help
  15. Usability issue for Kindle on Amazon.com
  16. Confessions of a self published author
  17. Quote of the week
  18. How to understand the media (Review of The Influencing Machine)

November 2011

  1. Mindfire day Dec 7th: can you help?
  2. The Symbolic Violence of Twitter
  3. Quote of the week
  4. Take my course on Innovation, online, right now
  5. The fascinating history of Jelly Belly jelly beans (documentary)
  6. Innovation vs. mere improvement: how do you know what you have?
  7. Can you say much in 500 Words? Essays vs. Blogs
  8. Things I miss
  9. How do you get wise? The story of Mindfire
  10. In defense of flubs (and Rick Perry)
  11. Why give a book away for free?
  12. Answering Proust: a fun interview
  13. Teaching Seattle How to Drive – in 5 minutes
  14. Feedback without frustration (video)
  15. Let time work for you
  16. Now scottberkun.com has threaded comments
  17. How Microsoft kills cool projects
  18. Mindfire: Free preview now available

October 2011

  1. The Jobsian fallacy
  2. The age of the platform: lessons on self-publishing from 4 time author
  3. Countdown begins: Mindfire book launch in 6 days
  4. Is Philosophy the Most Practical Major?
  5. Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?
  6. Seattle: Mindfire Book Launch Party (Nov. 3rd)
  7. Redesign the news: an invitation to Seattle
  8. Why Jobs is No Edison
  9. How to give a perfect demo

September 2011

  1. Last chance to pre-order Mindfire (my 4th book)
  2. Buy an hour of my time, dirt cheap (and support Mindfire)
  3. How Yoga destroys creativity: Niemann on working with ideas
  4. Why I’m self publishing my next book
  5. The false dichotomy of false dichotomies
  6. Why conferences cost so much
  7. The final cover is here, plus a sneak peek
  8. If you like my work, can you lend a hand?

August 2011

  1. Vote on Mindfire cover: Final Round
  2. Mindfire preorders now up – via kickstarter
  3. How to Sleep on a Plane
  4. Need ideas: fun rewards for Mindfire book pre-orders?
  5. How to discuss politics with friends, version 1
  6. The new book: Mindfire. What is it?
  7. Help me Teach Seattle How to Drive
  8. Bruce Springsteen on Creativity
  9. How to Use Bad Data for Good
  10. Missing maps and the fragility of technology
  11. Video: My lecture on future of Vaccines
  12. The unavoidable power of compromise

July 2011

  1. How do you invent vaccines? An interview
  2. Don’t Punish Everyone For One Person’s Mistake
  3. Executives and fake decisions
  4. The end of Google Labs
  5. Nothing is obvious to everyone
  6. Are PMs worth more than game designers?
  7. Cover designs for Mindfire: vote!
  8. The new book is on its way: update soon
  9. The Paradox of Creative Confidence
  10. Join my free and smart mailing list
  11. Even Jefferson had second drafts
  12. The Tree of Life: Movie Review

June 2011

  1. An Open Letter To Speakers
  2. Everything is a Remix
  3. Quote of the week
  4. 5 Dangerous Ideas for Designers
  5. Why you should donate blood
  6. Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference?
  7. Why Great Ideas Fail
  8. What I learned at FOO Camp ’11
  9. Q&A from Innovation webcast
  10. Should I Keep “Readers Choice”?
  11. When is good data impossible?
  12. Free Webinar: The Myths of Innovation, live

May 2011

  1. The death of death? (the premature cliche of killing an idea)
  2. Cynicism is intellectual cowardice (short video of the week)
  3. Live version: How to write 1000 words (time lapsed video)
  4. Comment of the week
  5. Open letter to college graduates
  6. Movie Review: Winters Bone
  7. Believe nothing
  8. How to ruin a design: the 9/11 Memorial
  9. Why you get ideas in the shower
  10. Quote of the month
  11. How To Fix Email: A Radical Proposal
  12. New update on the next book

April 2011

  1. Innovation by Death: A Theory
  2. Quote of the month
  3. The attack of the design weenie
  4. Video of the month: best minute you will have

March 2011

  1. Why you should be weird
  2. (POSTPONED) Speaking at Town Hall Seattle, March 9th

February 2011

  1. How to torture your project manager
  2. How to show time during a presentation
  3. The top 10 unsolved tech problems? help wanted
  4. Thinking in Desire Paths
  5. Quote of the week
  6. Discovered: The Amazing Dr. Fox Video
  7. An open letter to conference organizers
  8. Help name the next book (Round 1)
  9. Update on my next book
  10. How to Prepare: a Checklist For Great Talks
  11. Innovation Abuse: a case study
  12. What are the most annoying platitudes?

January 2011

  1. Toastmasters on Confessions (Podcast)
  2. Confessions now in Paperback
  3. Free copies of Myths of Innovation
  4. Quote of the week
  5. Confessions ebook $6.99 today only
  6. Innovators, imitators and idiots
  7. Why Do Arguments Become Hostile?
  8. Quote of the week
  9. Why today is not the future
  10. All ideas are made of other ideas
  11. Book review: Creative workshop
  12. Passive/Aggressive management and the Lakers
  13. An open letter to Amazon.com
  14. SCRUM for Weddings?
  15. Does information overload matter?
  16. Munich advice?
  17. Quote of the week
  18. Great talk: How to Solve a song
  19. Twitter vs. Deep reading?

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December 2010

  1. Looking for a word for…
  2. The Internet changes nothing
  3. New years resolutions that work
  4. Experience is Overrated
  5. Why It’s OK To Be Obvious
  6. How to write 1000 words (time-lapsed video)
  7. NSFW: most used curse words in history?
  8. Innovation vs. Usability: In numbers
  9. #1 on Kindle: Confessions of a Public Speaker
  10. Quote of the week
  11. Truth is found between these posts…
  12. Willy Wonka in Smell-O-Vision: review
  13. WikiLeaks Considered
  14. Seattle Ignite #12: the recap
  15. How to write 1000 words
  16. Can high quality be cheap?
  17. 2011 Predictions: mind blowing and amazing

November 2010

  1. Why do essay collection books suck?
  2. Quote of the Week
  3. All my books 60% off – today only
  4. Postmortem: Seattle and Snowpocolypse
  5. How you know there’s snow in Seattle
  6. Book review: The checklist manifesto
  7. How much to charge for speaking?
  8. We are just like ants: the proof
  9. Can you Redesign a Chocolate Bar?
  10. Help wanted: designer for next book (updated)
  11. More on free work / Designer job
  12. Need a new writing tool: help?
  13. Design for now or for later?
  14. How I almost invented RSS
  15. The impact ratio (why it’s hard to know what’s important)
  16. You are Don Draper: Pick the ad
  17. Designer job: updated!
  18. 10,000th comment: thanks
  19. Resumes vs. Recommendations

October 2010

  1. In Athens next week: recommendations?
  2. On working for free
  3. Book review: The War of Art
  4. How U2 gets ideas for songs
  5. Can Getting Healthy be Fun?
  6. Help Wanted: Designer for my next book
  7. Update on my next book
  8. How to speak to a bored audience
  9. The quote of the month
  10. Interview: man who owns only 15 things
  11. Poll: Write more or write better?
  12. New Myths Webcast: Now on youtube
  13. Clients who ignore you: how to handle?
  14. Is the web making us stupid?
  15. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft and change
  16. The fallacy of “They Don’t Get It”
  17. (Seattle) This Sunday – at Ada’s Books 4-6pm
  18. Q&A from Myths webcast
  19. Winners of 5 signed copies are…
  20. Myths Day results (Thanks!)
  21. 5 signed copies of Myths – leave a comment!
  22. Top Ten Innovation Myths in the U.S.
  23. Today is Myths of Innovation day! help wanted
  24. The future of golf: Smash-Putt (Seattle)
  25. Have an Innovation question? I will answer!
  26. Upcoming speaking: Seattle + more
  27. The Social Network: movie review
  28. Quote of the day
  29. The wonder of assembly lines (My day at Ford)
  30. Contest: The secret for spreading ideas? (prize: signed copy)
  31. Trivia winners so far are…
  32. Free Myths Webcast: Wed Oct 13th
  33. Myths trivia #2: signed copy + $25 amazon giftcard
  34. Myths Trivia Contest: Win signed copy + prizes

September 2010

  1. The make vs. consume ratio
  2. Mark the Date: Oct 13th Myths of Innovation day
  3. Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From
  4. Things to do/eat in Detroit?
  5. Help wanted: Berkun promotion team
  6. Ira Glass live: review
  7. Berkun fan page: now up on facebook
  8. ‘UX professional’ isn’t a real job?
  9. Is your book idea good? (Yes, I promise)

August 2010

  1. Being Geek: An interview with Michael Lopp
  2. The founding fathers and their faith
  3. Quote of the week
  4. Ten points on Freedom and the Mosque (w/Video)
  5. Why does transparency matter?
  6. Rules to live by
  7. Moments: a video you will enjoy
  8. Applying Jazz to workplace creativity
  9. There is no ground zero mosque
  10. The four minute presentation
  11. The Four Minute Presentation
  12. Pic of day: Universe closed
  13. The Idea Approval Index
  14. Why you fail at writing
  15. Ground Zero and the Mosque
  16. Lessons from Google Wave and MSFT Kin
  17. Coming soon: Myths paperback edition!
  18. Yoda and different kinds of trying
  19. News: I have a new job (Automattic)

July 2010

  1. The Acceleration of Addictiveness
  2. Why does faith matter?
  3. The Innovator’s SourceBook
  4. How to fix a team
  5. Is Cool a low bar?
  6. Can you be a great man (or woman)?
  7. In Defense of PowerPoint
  8. Help wanted: Editor/Curator for my next book
  9. The end of performance reviews?
  10. Should programmers run for Congress?
  11. The creativity crisis (Newsweek)
  12. Quote of the week
  13. How ideas escape their prisons
  14. Book Review: Moby Dick
  15. The fallacy of quick answers

June 2010

  1. Contest: Most worn out book wins $100 prize
  2. Quote of the week
  3. Site issues – need your help
  4. What I learned at FOO Camp ’10
  5. Where does our best work come from?
  6. (Video) How to Call BS on Social Media Gurus
  7. Why You Are Not an Artist
  8. Ode to the Waitress at Newark Airport
  9. London: meetup for a pint this week?
  10. The Future of WordPress: video
  11. The deception of “Studies say”
  12. Stop Reinventing Wheels – BusinessWeek
  13. Finger on nose: making fast group decisions
  14. Calling BS on Social Media Gurus (Video & Slides)
  15. The tradeoff of the hyperlink

May 2010

  1. Why Creatives Are Confused
  2. Does having a big ego help achieve goals?
  3. Worst examples of social media BS?
  4. My surprising inspiration (death!)
  5. How to call BS on a social media guru (event)
  6. How I found my passion
  7. Why the world is a mess: a theory
  8. How Private are Facebook Executives?
  9. Obama vs the iPad (information overload)
  10. Do sci-fi movies impact the future?
  11. Mistakes Critics Make (and Solutions)
  12. Gears of War 3: My wishlist for Horde
  13. Fishing with Strawberries: on Tim O’Reilly
  14. Ignite: How speakers prepare
  15. The new browser wars: an analysis

April 2010

  1. Research Challenge: Guns, Cats and Parachutes
  2. My favorite books: and why I love them
  3. How to Work with Stupid People
  4. Innovation in a book about Innovation?
  5. Should books include URLs? (book design)
  6. The Challenge of Indifference
  7. Can you learn creativity from dance? An interview
  8. Help me improve The Myths of Innovation!
  9. Inside Pixar’s Leadership
  10. Why New Systems Fail: an interview
  11. Should the web be allowed in class?
  12. Thursday Linkfest
  13. 5 lost truths on Innovation – My speech at The Economist
  14. Philosophy: Everything you need, in 5 minutes
  15. The future of WordPress: help wanted
  16. How do authors earn credibility?
  17. Post #1000: A Strawman for Everything
  18. The end of the killer feature
  19. Should you pay for an outside speaker?
  20. The 22 minute meeting (updated)
  21. Should managers know how to code?

March 2010

  1. Quote of the week
  2. The iPad and Innovation Theory
  3. How great author events happen (biznik)
  4. Google Wave and Why You Should Care
  5. Quote of the week
  6. Need a word for an interesting idea
  7. Ada Lovelace Could Kick Your Ass
  8. quote of the week
  9. Help w/ new edition of Myths of Innovation
  10. How I make a living: in detail
  11. Help me celebrate my 1000th post
  12. Cloud Computing is a bad metaphor
  13. How UX can get anything they want
  14. Discount: The Economist Innovation Event, March 23/24
  15. The Cult of Busy
  16. Quote of the week
  17. Don’t be original, just be good
  18. How to convince anyone of anything
  19. TurboTax Design FAIL
  20. Problem Solving & Kobayashi Maru
  21. Funniest man on TV: Craig Ferguson
  22. Highest Paid Opinion Wins
  23. My biggest mistakes

February 2010

  1. Quote of the Month
  2. (Seattle) Berkun + Wine + You: special event
  3. Speaking at The Economist Innovation event
  4. Good beats innovative nearly every time (repost)
  5. Why you should be a team of one
  6. Melbourne meetup – Sunday!
  7. What Microsoft gets for $2 billion
  8. Wednesday linkfest
  9. Three design lessons from the best vehicle of all time
  10. Microsoft and Creative Destruction
  11. Book smarts vs. Street smarts
  12. Obama, Palin and teleprompters

January 2010

  1. The future of UI – interview on CBC
  2. Should Americans get more vacation?
  3. Twitter reconsidered
  4. My talk at Google HQ, on Confessions
  5. Why Job Interviews are Flawed
  6. Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions
  7. Challenging Newton’s Apple
  8. How to Stop Overcommunication
  9. Countdown to 1000 posts
  10. How to be passionate (when you open your mouth)
  11. Free chapters from Confessions
  12. Wednesday linkfest
  13. The Limits of Innovation
  14. Live, Free webcast TODAY on speaking
  15. Quote of the month
  16. CrowdSourcing Star Wars: A new hope
  17. How do you get motivated?
  18. A rant about women
  19. Wants vs. Beliefs
  20. The future of UI will be boring
  21. Book review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
  22. Need a graphic designer for small project
  23. Speaking at PMI Congress, Feb. in Melbourne
  24. How to create great work environments
  25. How great writers work
  26. What should I write about next? Place your vote!
  27. On God, Integrity and Sports
  28. When visualizations go wrong, part 2
  29. Improved images in Confessions
  30. Live chat at UW, next Friday 12pm PST
  31. Signed edition of Confessions now for sale
  32. Why do big companies suck?
  33. Portland: Speaking Wed & Thursday, this week

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December 2009

  1. Wednesday linkfest
  2. What should I write about? You decide!
  3. The Secret About Innovation Secrets
  4. Best things of 2009
  5. Everything is a project (even this post)
  6. Wednesday linfest
  7. Speaking in Portland, Jan 6 & 7
  8. What my office looks like right now
  9. Quote of the month
  10. Wednesday linkfest
  11. Buy nothing for Christmas
  12. The importance of what you say
  13. When visualizations go wrong
  14. The toughest room I had this month
  15. Thursday linkfest
  16. Should I become a project manager? (Mailbag)
  17. Slashdot reviews Confessions
  18. Why you need a public speaking book
  19. Confessions now shipping at Amazon again
  20. SF: Wed at Adaptive Path, open to public
  21. Confessions /Amazon shipping issues – explained
  22. Thursday linkfest
  23. Q&A from webcast on public speaking
  24. Live webcast in 20 minutes! (free)
  25. CNN covers Confessions

November 2009

  1. Reviews for Confessions so far – updated
  2. Confessions book tour: SF update
  3. Wall Street Journal reviews Confessions
  4. Confessions keynote from Web 2.0 expo
  5. The challenge of visible twitter at conferences
  6. Webcast: Confessions of a Public Speaker (free!)
  7. Why conferences must talk about failure
  8. Elliason does it again (amazing art)
  9. Research help: A web challenge!
  10. Wednesday linkfest
  11. Stephen Colbert fights the closeminded
  12. Confessions now shipping from Amazon.com
  13. First review of Confessions is in
  14. Photos from last night’s talk
  15. Boston Book Tour Report: Days 1 & 2

October 2009

  1. Do you listen to audiobooks? Advice wanted
  2. What’s wrong with TV: a theory
  3. Thursday linkfest
  4. Confessions #1 on amazon.com
  5. Teaser video for Confessions book: now up!
  6. I need your help: important
  7. Wednesday linkfest
  8. How to write a book, part 2
  9. An open letter to the micromanaged
  10. Biggest myths in world history? Help a school teacher
  11. Sneak preview of my new book
  12. An open letter to micromanagers

September 2009

  1. Wednesday linkfest
  2. Why do people make bad slides?
  3. How to keep your mouth shut
  4. What copyeditors do
  5. Magic numbers of project management
  6. UI14: Ten reasons you should go (Nov ’09, Boston)
  7. Wednesday linkfest
  8. The new serendipity?
  9. Site update and move complete
  10. Microsoft and Making things happen
  11. Help needed: Boston/NYC book tour, Nov ’09
  12. Confessions (new book cover and more)
  13. Friday linkfest
  14. Sentiment analysis on sentiment analysis
  15. The explosion of innovation books
  16. Wednesday linkfest
  17. Do boycotts ever work?
  18. Why Google won’t create the next twitter (a critique)

August 2009

  1. CBS wants your PM hero story
  2. What I learned at FOO Camp ’09
  3. Video: extended Q&A at RIM in Waterloo
  4. Hating vs. Loving: a personal note
  5. Good, evil and technology: a fun philosophical inquiry
  6. Wednesday linkfest
  7. 5 myths about health care around the world
  8. Why boycotting Whole Foods is Stupid
  9. Wednesday linkfest
  10. Redesigning this website: feedback?
  11. The Kindle’s place in Innovation history
  12. Quote of the Month: Use the difficulty
  13. Wednesday linkfest
  14. Healthcare as an innovation problem
  15. Thursday linkfest
  16. The Netflix Inc. guide to culture (Analysis)
  17. Help me find photos for the new book
  18. Keep me honest
  19. Crap detection 101 and social media

July 2009

  1. How to design a conference – Interview with GEL host Mark Hurst
  2. How to watch a Michael Bay film
  3. The science of hunches?
  4. Wednesday Linkfest
  5. Have you spoken at Ignite? Need your help
  6. The new book: confessions of a public speaker
  7. Lessons from 50+ books on public speaking
  8. Wednesday linkfest
  9. Don’t be precious
  10. The other myths of innovation?
  11. Wednesday linkfest

June 2009

  1. Calling bullshit on social media
  2. Can you force questions on an audience?
  3. Wednesday linkfest
  4. Instant feedback for speakers?
  5. (Seattle) Cool event: Small and Special
  6. Your worst speaking disaster? ($200 in prizes!)
  7. Your worst speaking disaster? ($200 in prizes!)
  8. The Worst Public Speaking Disasters
  9. Who deserves a standing ovation?
  10. Why do we clap? A short history
  11. Speakers and fees: an insiders view
  12. Strange speaking venues, part 1
  13. McConnell’s 10 deadly sins of estimation
  14. Next book is first draft complete!
  15. The speaking gig from hell
  16. Wednesday linkfest + Confessions
  17. Management lessons from Gears of War 2
  18. How To Give a Great Ignite Talk

May 2009

  1. Speaking in Milwaukee, this friday
  2. Wednesday linkfest + Confessions
  3. Why you say ummmm when you speak
  4. Why you say “ummmm” when you speak and how to fix it
  5. Must read book: Brain rules
  6. Speaking linkfest
  7. Interview w/Ian Tyson: comedian & motivational speaker
  8. The paradoxes of lectures
  9. Wednesday linkfest
  10. Cool UI at Nobel Peace Center
  11. How to let go: a lesson from NASA
  12. Creativity lessons from Rene Magritte
  13. Why ugly teams win
  14. Travel: Any Brussels or Oslo advice?

April 2009

  1. What I learned at Seattle Ignite 6
  2. Wednesday linkfest (+ Confessions)
  3. Should speakers ban twitter at their talks?
  4. Innovation case study: Opera Web browser
  5. The myth of the tough crowd?
  6. Speaking at Ignite Seattle, Wed Night
  7. My books are now on Kindle
  8. Project management for beginners
  9. Wednesday Linkfest
  10. Berkun is now on Twitter
  11. Job loss map (coolness & badness)
  12. Upcoming Speaking / Travel
  13. Wednesday Linkfest
  14. Tommorow: Live webcast, Why designers fail
  15. Why panels suck (and how to fix them)
  16. Things not to say when speaking at Microsoft
  17. Why Panel Sessions Suck (And How To Fix Them)
  18. The end of Encarta
  19. Top ten reasons managers become great
  20. Why does cynicism sell? (This site sucks)
  21. Being Popular vs. Being Good
  22. Wednesday Linkfest
  23. How to fix boring lectures
  24. How to fix boring lectures and presentations
  25. My new blog: Public Speaker Confessions
  26. Things not to say – “We don’t have time”
  27. Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration)
  28. (Seattle) Presentation Camp – Tommorow!

March 2009

  1. The use and misuse of quoting people
  2. Friday Linkfest
  3. (Seattle) Presentation camp schedule up!
  4. Quote of the day
  5. And the $600 Golden Ticket winner is…
  6. Why Requirements Stink
  7. New O’Reilly book: Beautiful Teams
  8. Free $600 ticket to Monday’s MasterClass (San Francisco)
  9. Your project has no goal
  10. Live webcast, why designers fail (and what to do about it)
  11. Q&A from today’s webcast
  12. Live webcast, in 45 minutes (10am PST), today
  13. Wednesday Linkfest
  14. Review: WordPress 2.7
  15. When your VP doesn’t understand your job
  16. How to deal with people who are jerks
  17. Palm centro: follow up review
  18. A lesson in customer service (why my site was down today)
  19. Live webcast: How progress happens, Free! March 19th
  20. How project managers establish power
  21. Program Managers vs. Interaction designers
  22. Wednesday linkfest
  23. Best advice I’ve seen for web startups
  24. The top 100 speeches of the 20th century
  25. (Seattle) Presentation Camp – Saturday April 4th
  26. How to Call Bullshit on a Guru or Expert
  27. Can a consultant be of use in one day?
  28. Stupid things presenters do (and how to stop them)
  29. Quote of the month
  30. Where are the female geniuses?
  31. No holds barred tactics for UX in organizations
  32. Thursday Linkfest
  33. (Updated) Teaching kick-ass course on innovation: SF, March 30
  34. How to visually capture a talk or presentation
  35. Report from Adaptive Path’s MX ’09 conference
  36. Does public speaking matter in 2009?
  37. How to be at genius – at Forbes.com

February 2009

  1. Businesses that thrived during recessions?
  2. Myths of Innovation: the movie?
  3. Should I quit my job now?
  4. Thursday linkfest
  5. Telling stories about telling stories
  6. Nietzsche’s mustache
  7. Presentation camp – SF, March 21
  8. My next book… details inside
  9. New video: How progress happens
  10. Thursday linkfest
  11. (Seattle) Free training for unemployed tech workers

January 2009

  1. Wednesday linkfest
  2. Why do designers fail? Interview w/Adaptive Path
  3. No secrets: new project management blog
  4. Good advice from top bloggers
  5. Lose your job? Get a free book
  6. Failure: the secret to success (Honda & race cars)
  7. New essay: How to be a free thinker
  8. Top five things *not* to do when fired
  9. What virtual seminar do you want me to do?
  10. Upcoming travel: SF, NYC, Toronto, Chicago
  11. Microsoft layoffs: thoughts
  12. Success factors for program managers
  13. Top ten reasons managers become assholes
  14. The real work of writing
  15. The lost cult of Microsoft program managers
  16. Therapy and innovation hype!
  17. Dr. Seuss, wicked constraints, and creative thinking
  18. Thursday linkfest
  19. Management for the self-employed
  20. Do you manage design projects? An event for you (Feb 5, SF)

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December 2008

  1. Top 100 blogs for software developers
  2. Should websites get movie style age ratings?
  3. The ugly loop of unconstructive criticism
  4. Enjoying the week of quiet (Xmas to New Years)
  5. 99% non-holiday related Linkfest
  6. Research on how to pitch ideas
  7. Quote of the month
  8. Why there will always be pyramid schemes
  9. Wednesday linkfest
  10. How to keep meetings short: 5 insightful tricks to try
  11. Book review: Walden, by Thoreau
  12. Review: MacGyver Season 1, episode 1
  13. Wednesday linkfest
  14. Looking for project management slang
  15. Questions on Innovation from Microsoft: Answered!
  16. How to fight management incompetence
  17. Auto Bailouts and the Innovators Dilemna

November 2008

  1. Wednesday linkfest
  2. Quote of the month
  3. Your quota of worry and how to shrink it
  4. If you’re working this week, you’re smart (Vacation strategy part 2)
  5. What’s so special about a team of rivals?
  6. Debunking Thanksgiving myths
  7. Wednesday linkfest
  8. Toronto Wed Dec 3rd: Anyone want me to speak?
  9. Today is World Usability Day
  10. Wednesday linkfest
  11. Do we suck at the basics?
  12. What I learned in Trinidad
  13. Innovation in sports: Chessboxing
  14. CMU study on privacy – opinions wanted
  15. Will 2008 election ballots be usable? An expert interview

October 2008

  1. Book Review: The New Kings of Nonfiction
  2. Have a novel in you? Prove it (National novel writing month)
  3. Luddite news: My new cell phone is…
  4. Wednesday linkfest
  5. Late bloomers vs. Young geniuses (Critiquing Gladwell, Part 2)
  6. Quote of the month
  7. Why Designers Fail: The Report
  8. How to design an office for designers?
  9. Win prizes! – Why do designers fail SURVEY
  10. Why do designers fail? Input wanted
  11. Great summary on Money Meltdown / Crisis
  12. RSS/Feed issues: Fixed (details)
  13. Wednesday linkfest

September 2008

  1. How to run a bug bash
  2. New video: How to make things happen
  3. How to start writing a book
  4. Presidental debate drinking games
  5. A million dollars for your best idea
  6. (Seattle) InfoCamp 2008 this weekend
  7. How hard to immigrate into the U.S? Awesome flowchart
  8. New essay: how to pick a president
  9. Microsoft & the social network wars
  10. What wall street should be required to do
  11. How to free your inhibitions
  12. Need a new web host – recommendations?
  13. Email down – Leave a comment if you need to contact me
  14. How to learn from a nuclear missle
  15. How to work better in ten easy steps
  16. And the winner of the invention contest is…
  17. How to diagnose creative failures in organizations
  18. Milwaukee and Chicago CANCELED
  19. Questions on Innovation from Microsoft
  20. Speaking in Chicago, Sept 22nd, Free & Public
  21. Google Chrome: beyond the hype
  22. Speaking at Microsoft next Tuesday
  23. Google’s web browser (Chrome): early review

August 2008

  1. Going to SXSW? Vote for my panel
  2. Upgrade your life: interview w/Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani
  3. Thursday linkfest
  4. Interview w/Jared Spool, on Innovation (Podcast)
  5. How do you teach leadership in high school?
  6. More on learning from mistakes
  7. Ten Inventions I Want To See
  8. Quote of the month: Tim O’Reilly on journalism
  9. How to win with anthropology: interview with Grant McCraken
  10. From the mailbag: Best request ever for writing advice
  11. The limits of leaked memos (Apple & Microsoft)
  12. Speaking in Milwaukee, WI, Fri Sept 19th
  13. Speaking at User interface 13, October ’08, Cambridge, MA
  14. Wednesday linkfest
  15. Last call for resumes: project manager for pmclinic
  16. How not to set goals: Steve Ballmer, a case study
  17. Should top performers work alone?
  18. George Orwell & the future of blogs

July 2008

  1. Do you experiment at work?
  2. Was your MBA worth it?
  3. I’m hiring: job opening for pmclinic
  4. A new take on Myths of Innovation
  5. Learning from The Wire
  6. Is innovation overrated?
  7. The books of ignorance
  8. The pleasure of turning things off
  9. I’m blogging for Harvard Business
  10. What I learned at FOO Camp 08
  11. On MSNBC, Sunday July 13th
  12. Wednesday linkfest
  13. (Seattle) Win a ticket to BizJam, July 9 & 10
  14. Why project managers get no respect
  15. Kids, waterfalls and subways (NYC)

June 2008

  1. How to learn from from the Boston Celtics
  2. The irony of creative change
  3. Why I loved George Carlin
  4. The creative life of a two hit wonder
  5. Great event for Seattle independents – Bizjam ’08
  6. Wednesday linkfest
  7. My favorite living artist: Olafur Eliasson
  8. Practicing what I preach: Innovation abuse
  9. Innovation by firing people
  10. Backstage at CNBC: a day on the set
  11. Thursday linkfest

May 2008

  1. Are we reading less or more? (WSJ)
  2. Big news: on CNBC next Monday (updated)
  3. Asshole driven development: revisited
  4. Should managers be funny?
  5. Did you review art of project management on amazon?
  6. Thursday linkfest
  7. The problem(s) with consultants
  8. Wednesday linkfest
  9. Critiquing Gladwell, part 1
  10. Wednesday linkfest
  11. Teaching kids creative thinking

April 2008

  1. The Lefferts’ law of management
  2. What does Guy Kawasaki read?
  3. Report from Web 2.0 expo
  4. AIGA interview on innovation
  5. Wednesday linkfest
  6. Free copy of Making things happen
  7. What every movie review website needs
  8. Wednesday linkfest
  9. WordPress 2.5: Review
  10. Speaking at Web 2.0 expo April 21-25th
  11. Fresh thoughts on the Microsoft/Yahoo merger
  12. The pointless technology competition
  13. Understanding Apple (Apple now the #1 Music retailer)
  14. How do you grow willpower?
  15. Wednesday linkfest
  16. CMU Lecture now on YouTube
  17. Lessons from 4 independent years
  18. How to write songs and the creative process

March 2008

  1. A magic day in Pittsburgh: MAYA Design & CMU
  2. The worst keyboard in the world
  3. Now in stock: Making things happen
  4. How Apple got everything right
  5. Commentary on NPR’s Marketplace, tonight (update)
  6. at CMU, Pittsburgh, Next Thursday (Free books!)
  7. New essay: how to innovate right now
  8. Innovation vs. Tradition: Christianity, the Vatican and Sin
  9. Art of project management for $139!
  10. Making things happen – the cover & more
  11. Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
  12. Corrections wanted for paperback edition of Myths of Innovation
  13. Creator of dungeons and dragons dies at 69
  14. Speaking at Webvisions, Portland, May 22-23
  15. The mystery of writing bestsellers

February 2008

  1. Thursday linkfest
  2. Conference materials (and more) done right – Webstock ’08
  3. Interviewed by IdeaConnection
  4. Why Teachers Should Lie (to promote critical thinking)
  5. Report from Webstock & New Zealand
  6. The secrets of the Parthenon
  7. Thursday linkfest
  8. Live webchat w/me tommorow, 12pm EST tommorow
  9. New York Times on Myths of Innovation
  10. Creative thinking rules

January 2008

  1. Live webchat w/me, Feb 5th on america.gov
  2. Wednesday linkfest
  3. Why are people ignoring you?
  4. Do constraints help creative thinking?
  5. Wanted: Software war stories for an O’Reilly book
  6. What to do if the world hates your idea
  7. Who I write for
  8. How to handle tough cricitism: an example
  9. The end of Netscape & the history of browsers
  10. (Seattle) Full day courses – interested?
  11. Favorite MLK quote on tech innovation
  12. Thursday linkfest
  13. If you are sick of social/networking websites…
  14. Is Google ‘white bread for young minds’?
  15. Podcast/Slides from Web Directions 07 finally up
  16. The untold story of the i-phone
  17. Thursday linkfest
  18. Comment lottery winners are…
  19. Why revision should feel like torture
  20. Any artofpm corrections?
  21. More upcomming speaking
  22. Speaking in Vancouver BC, Tue 1/22
  23. Thursday linkfest
  24. The trashing of zen: a rant
  25. Stop Saying Innovation – Here’s Why

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