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This last little while has been bumpy, but I’m still making progress.

Hiring an early-stage manager can bring up powerful fears of making a bad hire.

• What if they ruin our culture?
• What if we lose good people because of them?
• What if they cause harm?

Another sort-of seven days. The high point: My first published letter to the editor! I am clearly well-prepared for retirement.

Here are the last seven days of action.

Flameshot is a great free screenshot tool. Here’s short guide on how to set it up to work well in Cinnamon.

I mostly wrote this just so I could have an excuse to use Flameshot.

This year, I’ve resolved to do one thing every day to take action against Climate Change.

Toronto, the city I call home, went into a second lockdown two days ago.

Have you ever hired for a job you didn’t understand? It’s scary. If you don’t know how to do the job yourself, how can you assess what a strong candidate looks like?

In this post, we’ll see how to modify a well-researched interview methodology to quickly build a process that helps you hire for the unknown in 4 steps. And, in the spirit of incrementalism, you’ll have something useful after each step.

Recently, I overheard a coffee meeting that sounded a lot like a job interview. The candidate referred to their job experience as ‘bipolar’ a few times, and it reminded how frequently I’ve teasingly heard this label used in the workplace.