Tuesday, November 26, 2013

GOTO Aarhus 2013 videos

Videos from GOTO Aarhus 2013 are available here.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Heartfelt talk by Steve Jobs - All Things D8 (2010)

This interview with Steve Jobs at All Things D8 is a must watch. It's so great to listen to a leader in a company that has a true purpose for the organization.

Mining your creativity by Andy Hunt

This presentation from Andy Hunt given at NDC is really interesting.

Image streaming
1. Ask yourself a question
2. Close your eyes (10 minutes or so)
3. For each image that crosses your mind:
    1. Describe it out loud (using your voice)
    2. Imagine it with all five senses (or as many as possible)
    3. Use present tense (even if fleeting)

http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/bright.htm

Free-form journaling
1. Write 3 pages, longhand (not on a computer)
2. Uncensored
3. Do not skip a day

Book tip: A whack on the head
10 mental locks

If you don't keep track of your great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.

Exocortex - a place to keep track of your ideas outside of your brain.

http://www.pocketmod.com/

Reading symmary techniques
SQ3R:
- Survey
- Question
- Read
- Recall (try to use what you have read, more powerfull than to re-read)
- Review

How to take notes
- Mindmap (done on computers is not as useful as on paper)

Warnings
- We as humans suck at multitasking

Constantly checking your email makes your IQ drop 10 points
1. Send less email
2. Choose your own tempo for an email conversation
3. Don't context switch (book reference Getting things done, David Allen)
4. Never keep a mental list (makes your brain constantly work with the issues)
5. Set cues for task resumption (makes it easier to come back to a previous task)
6. Set team interruption protocols (when is it ok to interrupt within the team?)
7. Get a second monitor (productivity gain 20-30%), don't have to context switch between windows

Change is hard:
1. Start with a plan
2. Avoid Inaction, not Error
3. New habits take time
4. Belief is physical
5. Take small next steps

Gary Vaynerchuk presentation at 2008 Web 2.0 Expo

Just found this great presentation about Gary Veynerchuk, it's a must see if you need to get motivated to do what you want to do!

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Debugging your mind by Andy Hunt

This presentation by Andy Hunt at NDC 2013 talks about our behavior as humans and how that affects us as we work together to develop software.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

GOTO Aarhus presentations

Presentations from GOTO Aarhus 2012 are now available online and can be found here.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Scott Hanselman on the subject of beeing effective

These are two great presentations from Scott Hanselman about personal development.

This presentation is from Webstock 2012.

This presentation called Effectiveness is from Öredev 2009.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Reflections on reflections

Jim Copliens keynote at SPLASH 2012 about OO and DCI is definitly worth watching.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Uncle Bob - Demanding Professionalism

This is a video from the Philly .NET User Group where Uncle Bob talks about professionalism.

Denise Jacobs: The Art of Disciplined Creativity

This great presentation that Denise Jacobs gave at ÖreDev 2012 is about how you can get more creative and get into the "zone" by excercising discipline.

Jane McGonigal - About her healing game, SuperBetter

This great talk at TED by Jane McGonigal explains her ideas on how you can get 10 extra years of life.

Linda Rising - The Agile Mindset

This is an interesting talk about the Agile mindset that Linda Rising gave at the GOTO Aarhus Conference 2012.