Blog

Driving Engagement through an Alternate Reality Game-Like Strategy

Apr 30, 2025 |

How Nintendo Turned Switch 2 Pricing into a Viral Game Nintendo outsourced pricing conversation to social media, creating a participatory discovery game for 1-2 weeks post announcement. By publication of this post, these questions have been answered. Was this a good strategy? Internet craves conversation and participation. This is often served through negative social media […more]

Communication and Seller Etiquette

Apr 10, 2025 |

The Unspoken Deal: How Nintendo Violated Seller’s Etiquette Nintendo’s customers aren’t passive consumers, they’re motivated buyers. People watching an hour-long Nintendo Direct want to be sold on the system. The Nintendo Direct sales pitch was Nintendo’s to lose. They succeeded at creating buzz, but why was there such a negative reaction to price information? Was […more]

Reviewing the State of Switch 2 Communications Strategy

Apr 9, 2025 |

The Switch 2 Launch: Communications Review Nintendo’s unveiling of the Switch 2 has created a storm of conversation. Is it the kind of buzz that Nintendo intended? What did their strategy accomplish, compared to its goals? I’ll review some of these factors in a series of articles. We’ll start with clarifying their intent, then go […more]

VBA Script for MS Word: Highlight All Words in List

Mar 16, 2019 |

As I was entering the final rounds of detailed editing of my dissertation, a >400 page document, I needed some additional tools to help accelerate the editing process. I developed the following VBA code to highlight words. The goal was to audit verb tenses. However, this could be adapted to any set of words. Installing […more]

Jump Bike Review

Sep 27, 2017 |

The Jump Bike, by Social Bicycles, is one of the crop of dockless bike rental startups in the area. I already have a stable of bikes and a Capital Bikeshare membership. I haven’t cared about the other startups, but this one got my attention because it’s electric assist. So, how does this thing hold up […more]

John Lydgate’s Letter to Gloucester

Jul 28, 2017 |

Freelance writing has its share of issues. John Lydgate was Henry Duke of Gloucester’s Latin-to-English translator of choice. Lydgate assiduously translated extremely lengthy Latin texts (the Fall of Princes itself was 26k lines of Latin). Humphrey was happy to make requests but didn’t understand payment in installments. When you don’t pay your writers, you get […more]

Finally gave a presentation on GTD

Apr 12, 2017 |

GTD isn’t complicated. This page proves it. I’ve been using David Allen’s original system since late high school, so, for the better part of 10 years. Parts of it have come and gone. I’ve been a slow adopter of many parts, especially the weekly review. I’m stubborn. Of course, any experienced GTD’er will tell you, […more]

Append Comments and Tags as Text in Devonthink Pro Office

Feb 23, 2017 |

(2017-04-03: Script has been Updated by Christian Grunenberg himself! The incredible user support is one of the best selling points for DevonThink.) I make and sort my reading notes in Devonthink Pro Office, but I write in Scrivener. The comments and tags do not transfer between the programs, unfortunately. Because I use tags for data […more]

Train Productive Will Through SelfControl

Feb 23, 2017 |

Productivity software typically focuses on task management, information organization, communication, and tracking. The best task management software, though, is still… the direction of your attention. It is hard to manage in the age of internet and social media. I’ve written before about turning off notifications. I still rely on that critical ability to turn off […more]

GTD in the Digital Academic Era

Sep 23, 2016 | | Say something

Jamel Ostwald has a stellar blog for academics at Skulking in Holes and Corners. If you’re thinking about taking GTD or organization as an academic seriously, you would benefit from reading through his Methodology tag. I would like to reply to on comment in his post on GTD methodology. “GTD is probably less useful (given […more]