Exploring the difference between being a productive person and a Productivity Person
Tyler Hellard explains why Productivity People are no fun at parties.
Previously
Inclusive UX: The limits of empathy
Understanding what to do… when you don’t understand
Ivana McConnell maps out a simple process for building inclusive processes by simply acknowledging our limitations.
Buck the trend
What corsets and shampoo can teach us about design and problem solving
Stop worshipping at the cult of whatever-everyone-else-is-doing. It’s time to show the world what you can really do.
Stop normalizing failure
How to estimate projects (and how not to)
Patrice Embry shares the heartbreaking story of PMs who have left agencies due to poor estimating processes and a lack of support from management that puts teams in jeopardy—and a better, safer approach to estimation that elevates everyone.
Look at yourself
Learn how to separate fact from fiction and let go of the thoughts that suffocate you. A process for breaking limiting beliefs.
Rachel Gertz tears open the stomach of limiting beliefs and outlines a process to undo the damage they cause.
Apprenticeships redux
A plan to address tech’s diversity problem by valuing empathy over experience
The tech industry doesn’t have a diversity problem, it has an inclusion problem. Ivana is back to talk about how apprenticeships can make our industry better.
An interview with Michael Lopp
Managing humans when the sky is falling
Coax Magazine sat down with the VP of Engineering at Slack to talk about writing, empathy, management, and what to do when the sky is falling.
Becoming comfortable with discomfort
One man’s journey to become a better designer… through improv
I signed up for a comedy improv class hoping it would make me a stronger designer, hoping it would better help me present my ideas and further my career. I had no idea it would transform my life.
Norma Miller
Coax Magazine sat down with Norma Miller from White Coat Captioning to talk about communication, knowledge translation, objectivity, and the machines that may or may not be coming for our jobs.
Norma’s captioned everyone from Bo Burnham to Barrack Obama (and maybe even you).
Ubuntu for project managers
Treat your team like a village—a village where everyone is both valued and valuable
Ubuntu is a South African concept stemming from the belief that we collectively define our identity. It’s not just a theory to live by or a humanist philosophy benefitting communities; it affects your business and your project management, too.
Input Logic
A Coax mini Q&A
We sat down with Brandon, Shawn, and Gavin from Input Logic to talk about the importance of continuous learning and how project management training impacted their team and processes. Here’s what they said.
In Defense of Doing it Wrong
Why you should ignore social expectations and start listening to your own desire
Why you should ignore social expectations and start listening to your own desire
Editor’s picks
Apprenticeship an internship replacement
A better path to mastering our craft
Ivana McConnell walks us down a familiar path to find our career footing—the path of an apprentice. Perhaps the best way to fireproof new industry talent is to apply those timeworn principles of the past.
Design machines
How to survive the digital apocalypse.
A dystopian view of an internet designed by machines, and the mushy, emotional weapons we can use to fight back.
What the fuck are you talking about?
A lesson in effective communication
Tyler Hellard offers a lesson in effective communication.
Late nights and early warnings
How unhealthy projects break your business and our plan to help you fix that
Rachel explains how digital project management, apprenticeship, and Louder Than Ten’s brand new program can transform your projects and your organization.
Most important to least
How I quit my job and found the career I craved.
Sometimes what you see isn’t what you get. Larissa Scordato was stuck in a great job that had everything she didn’t want. This is how she started over.
The DPM apprenticeship
Viget shares the ins and outs of their recent digital PM program.
Anna Lewis shares Viget’s biggest lessons in this hearty summary highlighting the twelve weeks they spent apprenticing their newest digital PM.
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