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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so Let’s Talk About Clicking Links.

Last week, this quick conversation happened in my house:“Babe, did you send me a link on Messenger?”“Yep, go ahead.”“Cool, thanks.” There was an ease to it, because we were in the same house, just a room away from each other, my husband working on his computer and me working on mine. He doesn’t send links...

On school (non)-openings, women in the workplace, and change communications. (We can help!)

It’s been a hard week for school administrators. In Fairfax County alone, we went from giving families a choice of sending kids back to school 2 times per week or keeping them home for the year...

A problem of clarity and scientists versus journalists, or, why the world needs scientific journalists

We have a problem today. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that asymptomatic people very rarely transmit the coronavirus, and mask-haters rejoiced. Less than a day later, they seemed to...

What have you done to adapt?

Late last week, a friend of mine posted to Facebook asking if there were any hair stylists out there who would be willing to coach her, for payment, through cutting her son’s hair. The responses...

Some work-from-home suggestions

Well it looks like more of us are going to be working from home, for the near and potetially farther future. As someone who has been a mostly remote worker for the last ten years, I have some thoughts...

Is your cybersecurity posture ready for the quarantine?

Just about a year ago, I was working for another company–one that had managed to both stay open and pay its employees during the government shutdown of 2018. During that time, we saw many...

Some instructional design talk

Not much writing really. I gave a 10 minute talk about my instructional design work to people who don’t know anything about the field. Someone was kind enough to record it, so here it is. Contact me...

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Four reasons that documentation should not be an afterthought

Why document what happens at the beginning of a project when documents might not be due until the...

On being precise

My son sat at his computer earlier this week: “I have to memorize this thing for...

On planning, journaling, and getting stuff done

It seems everyone has a method of planning their business these days. In my life I have had more...

Six months in…here’s what’s been going on.

I can hardly believe that this little company is already officially six months old. Now, technically...

An old article gets me thinking about language again

Over the weekend, a few of my Pittsburgh friends posted an old article on Facebook that exclaimed...

In which many of us meet in person

Since starting this business, there have been a large number of people who have given of their time...