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Some Thoughts About Email

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:September 12, 2012
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Sometimes the best response to email is to just not say anything.   In addition to the Right Speech guidelines of  "Is it kind? Is it necessary?  Is it true?"  you…

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Metaphor of the Day take 2

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:September 12, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Well there has been a crazy long gap between posts here, but there are still about 120 days to go until the convention, and there will probably be some ruminating…

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Metaphor of the Day

  • Post author:Rachel
  • Post published:February 13, 2012
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Being conchair of ThatCon is like being head magician of an amazing machine.  Of which I do not know all the incantations to use all its miraculous capabilities  and besides…

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Learning from Last Year

  • Post author:Rachel
  • Post published:February 11, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Every year the staff of ThatCon ends the year with a pile of notes about what to change for next year.    And then the notes go in a file and…

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Worst. Idea. Ever.

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:February 11, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Three sentence email is the idea that all emails should be no more than three sentences long. Email takes too long to respond to,  so pledge that all emails will…

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Staffing up

  • Post author:Rachel
  • Post published:February 10, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

I skipped writing about the debrief from the last convention, and there's a lot to say about that.  Right now I'm deep into the process of staffing next year's con…

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Isn’t It Ironic?

  • Post author:Rachel
  • Post published:January 15, 2012
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Within a couple of days of posting the last blog post, The Pursuit of Perfection, a new and shiny opportunity came up.  It seemed like something that would be worth…

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The Pursuit of Perfection

  • Post author:Rachel
  • Post published:January 6, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

I sometimes describe ThatCon as "ambitious", by which I mean that we're constantly trying to do better, bigger, and more exciting than we've done before.  One-upping our own past performance…

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And to get started …

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:January 3, 2012
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Where better to start than a New Year's Resolution? I've been thinking a lot about what I'm trying to accomplish in the next year,  and one of the things I've…

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