You can become a better public speaker.
It’s amazing how many people could do their jobs better if they improved their public speaking skills. I recently gave a seminar called “Shy Guy to Guy Smiley” to introduce DJs and teachers to good MCing skills, but these public speaking skills are valuable for everyone – especially [...]

You can divide people into four categories: makers, breakers, stones and stoppers. It’s a vaguely construction-related metaphor:

Makers – They make things happen. These are people who instinctively create, assemble or lead. Where other people see Widgets, one maker has an idea for a new iWidget. When other people see two people [...]

Over the last few years the enormous growth in Open Source software has brought a lot of high-quality applications with everyone’s favourite price tag: free.
There was a time when “free software” was the last thing smart executives wanted their companies using.  If it was free, could it be good?  What about support?  Would you be [...]

After starting a few businesses I’ve become familiar with a lot of common mistakes that entrepreneurs make when starting a new business. Mistakes are inevitable (sometimes even desirable – more on that another time) but at the very least you can make new ones. Here’s a list of common mistakes you [...]

For ages developers and business people have been trying to get to the heart of the usability question. What things, or ideally, what one underlying factor determines the greatness of an interface… or better yet, a tool?One of the questions I ask myself is, what makes Google, Gmail, the Mac, Basecamp AND bash and [...]