Many writers struggle with perfection. They interrupt themselves with editing and trying to make the writing “perfect.” In their pursuit of perfection, they don’t finish and publish. But not publishing creates two problems: Not publishing means the writer receives no feedback. Sometimes, that means the writer stops writing. Worse, the writer continues to try to […]
I had a wonderful time speaking with Arin Sime on his Scaling Tech podcast. Listen to the podcast here and see all the notes: Mastering True Agility with Johanna Rothman. That page also has a link to the video on YouTube. We had a wide-ranging conversation, all about reducing cycle time so teams and organizations
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Yes, since I’m close to the end, I’m iterating through the Introduction and the early chapters. That’s because I now know what I wanted to say. Just like software product development, I only learned what I wanted to say after I wrote it down.
You’ve written something. But before you hit “publish” you’re worried about how some readers will react. Will they like what you wrote? Will they dislike it? The answer is “yes” to both. That’s because each reader has a different context. If you write to one ideal reader, you have a good shot of finding readers
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for December 6, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Adapt
Have you seen the Forbes article that has zero idea how efficient engineering teams work? They have a whole long list of “inefficiencies”. This is a quote from that article: Marking oneself as “in a meeting” on Slack Scheduling communications (Slack messages, emails, and code commits) for off-hours to appear active Blocking out private calendar
Are you worried about your ability to pay for books you want to read? Several of my newsletter readers have that problem. They’re unemployed and trying to figure out what to do next, their pivot. Since they read my newsletter and blog, these people trust my advice. They have asked where to find my free
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for November 29, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. When
It’s been a couple of weeks of craziness for me. Even so, I made a little time to write and record this week’s 60 seconds of Writing WIP. I want to finish this book “by the end of the year.” I’m close. I might need to release an early version on leanpub to get some
I’ve opened registration for the Q1 2025 Writing Workshop. See Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas for all the details. I’ve structured the workshop so you practice writing. Each week, you write something and send it to me. I’ll offer you personal feedback. In addition, I add a general response