The Problem: You’re Reaching for Your Mouse Way Too Often The mouse grab is the productivity killer nobody talks about. Every time your hand leaves the keyboard mid-thought — to click a file in the explorer, to position your cursor three lines up, to right-click and find “Go to Definition” — you’re paying a cognitive … Read more
My LinkedIn Feed Became Unusable — So I Did Something About It The thing that finally broke me wasn’t a single post — it was opening LinkedIn on a Tuesday morning and scrolling for three full minutes without seeing a single piece of content related to my actual industry. What I got instead: a founder … Read more
The Problem: LinkedIn Became Unusable The feed shift happened fast. I remember when the cringe on LinkedIn was at least human cringe — the “I am humbled and honored” acceptance posts, the guy who cried in his car before a big presentation, the CEO sharing a parable about a starfish. Annoying, sure, but those posts … Read more
The Moment I Realized I Was the Problem The bottleneck was me. Not my tech stack, not my contractors, not the fact that we were pre-Series A with a skeleton crew. Every single slowdown in the product traced back to one person: me sitting on something. A PR would go stale because I hadn’t reviewed … Read more
Red Flag/Green Flag: Quick Summary Box for workshop papers from conferences like NeurIPS and ICML, 2026 admissions committees have been giving them a closer look. The bottom line? They can be both a blessing and a curse on your PhD application. First off, green flags include papers that are transparently listed on your CV. Make … Read more
The Real Problem With Picking a Kanban Tool for Your Team You don’t have a discovery problem. There are easily a dozen well-marketed Kanban tools ranked in every “best of” list, each with a polished landing page, a comparison table that conveniently wins every column, and a 14-day trial that requires a credit card. The … Read more
Introduction I’ll tell you straight up—running volunteer teams without burning a hole in your pocket can be a wild ride, especially as we hit 2026. I’ve spent countless nights strategizing efficient ways to juggle projects with zero budget. It’s a kind of dance between optimism and sheer necessity. Many of us leading these teams do … Read more
Why I Stopped Recommending Asana to Nonprofits The Moment I Knew Asana Wasn’t Built for This The thing that broke it for me was Gantt charts — or rather, Asana quietly locking timeline view behind a paid plan. I was helping a small animal rescue org map out their summer adoption event schedule across four … Read more
Why I Needed a New Project Management Tool The Challenges of Managing Projects in a Non-Profit Environment Managing projects in a non-profit setting presents challenges that differ significantly from the start-up or corporate world. A common hurdle I faced was juggling numerous small projects with limited staff and budget. Resources are almost always tight, and … Read more
Introduction: Why Sharing Your Workflow Helps the Team The frustration of undocumented workflows is real. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen team members waste hours, sometimes days, trying to find out how and why a piece of code was written a certain way, simply because it wasn’t documented. It’s like trying to … Read more