[lead dropcap="yes"]Every week, I edit about a dozen podcast episodes that include a whole bunch of big files. Once the show is posted and scheduled, those files can be moved to archival storage1, which in my case is a Synology DS418 network... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]As you may know, I produce about a dozen different podcasts, most of them weekly, and keeping track of all the tasks of pre-production, recording, editing, distributing, and promoting them is challenging for a one-man operation... [Continue Reading]
or some time, I resisted the hot new trend of the Personal Knowledge apps that productivity bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters have been promoting. Why did I need yet another place to put information? I already had Evernote for web clippings and... [Continue Reading]
I've worked from home in various ways for over two decades, exclusively so from 1996 to 2007, a few days a week from 2016 to 2018, and then full-time again from 2018 and on. In all that time working from home I've been more productive, but I've also... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]It has become my custom to spend the last couple of days of each year to write up a review of what happened in the previous year and then to give a brief glance forward.1 [/lead] Moving to SQPN Full-Time This was a year of a big... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]It’s been three years since I first did a “How I Work” blog post (at the prompting of Tom McDonald) and since then I moved to a different full-time job and then to another (current) full-time job, where what I do is now almost... [Continue Reading]
On this date 230 years ago—June 28, 1787—Benjamin Franklin rose to address the Constitutional Convention, which had been fruitlessly wrestling toward a compromise so we could finally form a functioning government to serve the United States of... [Continue Reading]
Update: For more must-have Mac apps, see my follow up article where I give you six more apps. [lead dropcap="yes"]As a known Mac geek in my social circles, I often hear from people who are switching to Macs or iPhones or iPads and asked my advice... [Continue Reading]
Continuing my annual tradition[1], here’s my review of the past year in our life. We end the year pretty much how we started it with no major changes in our family or my employment. We have no new children nor pregnancies, which is like last... [Continue Reading]
This article written by me was originally posted in November 2012 to the Pilot New Media blog. After leaving that position, Pilot New Media was folded and the website is now defunct. I am republishing here some of my content that remains relevant... [Continue Reading]