I’m often told that when I’m at WordCamps I’m “a blur”. I’m told that I am “everywhere”. It’s not completely wrong, but it suggests that what I’m doing is more-random then the actual strategy that’s behind the approach. I’m not just frantically talking to everyone with a WordCamp tag, I’m coming into WordCamp with a plan to talk to the three types of people that I can expect to run into there. I’ve found that there’s 3 types of people that you can talk to at a conference. Customers, collaborators, and competitors, and yet many people treat everyone like “customers”…

When I have something that I need to do consistently, I break it into a small chunk and make sure that I do that thing every day first thing in the morning. Like…early early. Early enough that most people around me are sleeping. For me, that’s 6AM. I have ADHD, and this has been one of the single biggest unlocks to help me do something consistently simply because that golden hour happens at a time where there are fewer distractions. For that one glorious hour, nothing is happening, and in that nothingness over the years I’ve have repeatedly been able…