The TikiKitchen Blog
Time for a Face to Face, or Why I Ditched the Laptop at Meetings
It doesn’t matter who you are meeting with. Each person in a meeting should have your full attention. Not the device that separates you.
They’re Just Not That Into You: What to Do When a Client Leaves
Hey it happens. You think you have a great rapport with your client, and that everything is going smoothly. Okay…. smooth-ish. Something always comes up.
If A Wall Seems Like a Door…
You get into routines. You work, you meet deadlines, you follow your schedule, and then you remember I need to put myself out there. At some point you’ve realized that you haven’t spent any of your time promoting your work. You’ve worked so hard to promote others that you forgot to promote your own.
The Importance of Understanding Scope, and How to Plan for the Unforeseen
Estimating a project is a learned skill akin to becoming a Sorcerer Supreme. To be honest, I am not even…
The Art of Just Passing, or D is for Diploma
In college, my friends and I had a saying: “D is for Diploma.” It was our battle cry. We weren’t…
How to Blaze Trails
I am always surprised by the number of self help books on how to be creative, how to find your…
Unicorn Syndrome: Or Shut Up and Make Something
Believe it or not, I didn’t start in design. I never studied computer science. I didn’t have any formal art…
On Gratitude and Making the Right Decisions
We don’t always get to choose when we make decisions. In fact, we rarely know if the decisions we make…
Television: the Internet Drug of the Nation
Newton Minow once called Television a “vast wasteland”. He would later revise his thought to describe Television as a “Toxic…
Being Reminded That This is Water
Recently my wife did a lecture on the writing of David Foster Wallace. I have read one or two things by…
A Finished Piece: Route 66.
A piece that I started a while ago, is finally finished. Now time to print and mount.
On Self-Promotion and Putting Myself Out There
Something that I am not good at is marketing myself. I always feel like I am overstepping my bounds somehow….