Author: Dave

  • The Truly Productive Gift Guide

    This post started out very differently, as yet another list of recommended “gifts for productive people” or something along those lines. I spent a couple hours collecting my list over the past week, finding images to embed and establishing details about each item and why it was on the list and blah blah blah.

    It was looking really good, like a lot of other similar lists I’d been seeing. Which is when I realized that nobody needed that blog post. Not even me.

    All I was doing was adding to the noise, creating another listicle that didn’t really say anything, and I wasn’t really learning anything by writing it either. So instead, I’m happy to present a “gift guide” that not only encourages productivity but is in itself productive because there’s only one suggested gift on it.

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  • Starting At One

    It’s the beginning of a new month. Perfect time to finally get started on that thing.

    Day One for December calendar

    You know what I mean – we all have a thing. It’s that project or task we’ve been putting off and telling ourselves we’re too busy to start; we’re waiting to think about it more because we’re just not sure we’ve figured it all out yet, but at the same time it’s starting to bother us that we haven’t gotten started on it yet because it’s important or timely or we just need to get it out of the way. That thing that’s distracting us, a bit of psychic grit in our cognitive gears.

    You know what your thing is. You’re reading mine right now.

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  • Something new…

    100% Human logo buttons

    It was one month ago on this date that I first shared my “Human at Work” presentation. To mark that milestone, I’m launching this site and blog as a new outlet for sharing my progress and ongoing ideas about how we can be more human in our work and in our everyday lives. (more…)

  • “Human at Work”

    I was thrilled to give my first-ever professional conference presentation this past October as one of dozens of awesome higher ed web folks speaking at the 2014 HighEdWeb Annual Conference in Portland. I presented a confessional “case study of myself” titled Human at Work or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get Better at My Job and I was honored to receive awards for both “Best in Track” and “Best of Conference” for my efforts.

     
    I have created an entire page on this site dedicated to resources and links referenced in my talk, which will continue to be updated here: dave-cameron.com/human

    Enjoy, and please pass it on!