These are my pinboard links for January 11th through February 7th:

• When Ron May Ruled Chicago’s Tech Scene | Chicago magazine | January 2020 – Portrait/recollection of Chicago tech journalism innovator. Even has a reference to divine Interventures….
• Scuttlebutt – Decentralized p2p network for sharing and connecting
• Too much conversation? – Loryan Strant, Office 365 MVP – Loryan discusses conversation tools and sprawl.
• OHare 2007 – Steve Albini and the recording of In Utero – Academic paper on Albini's recording philosophy through the case of Nirvana's album In Utero.
• Regina Jonas – Article on the brief life, ordination, and works of Regina Jonas, first female rabbi.

These are my pinboard links for October 23rd through January 8th:

• Walter Benjamin on his Library – From Illuminations, Walter Benjamin piece on his library and unpacking it
• Get Started with the Talmud! – Rabbi Jesse Paikin – Overview of Talmud references and encouragement. Several follow-up resources, and grounding resources.
• 5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day – Compare and contrast remote work ideals vs reality, plus some tips for effective remote work habits and practices.
• Quill: Messaging for Teams That Focus – Chat startup for workplace chat.
• Greece’s New War on Refugees: Clearing Squatters in Athens | OZY – An interesting (lfef)-reported piece on Exarchia and ongoing tensions in the neighborhood plus governmental responses.

These are my pinboard links for October 1st through October 4th:

• Home – Indiana Entertainment Foundation – Indiana musical history organization, preserving and promoting entertainment from Indiana.
• One Rothko per hour – A Rothko painting per hour, perfect for those who use them for reflection and joy.
• Remote Work Guides | Twist – Collated by doist, a set of guides for practices on remote work – overview, operations, management, etc.

  <blockquote>Best practices for starting, managing, and scaling a remote team from the world’s most successful distributed companies.</blockquote>

• Microsoft Teams UserVoice – Uservoice forum for Microsoft Teams – raise new requests, vote on existing requests, and track community desired features and changes.
• 5 Easy-to-Implement Tips to Improve Your Relationships – A list and discussion of five things that can help form better connections with others.

  1/ Never meet a stranger.
  2/ Icebreak
  3/ Reflect at a high level
  4/ Reflect at a transactional level
  5/ Connect Connect Connect

These are my pinboard links for August 30th through October 1st:

• Impeachment.fyi – the latest impeachment news – Dan Sinker rolls out another web experiment – his linklist/summary of US impeachment news.

  <blockquote>A quick snapshot of what's happening now in impeachment news.</blockquote>

  NB: Dan takes a generally left view..

• Morning Brew – Referral page for Morning Brew "The daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Informative, witty, and everything you need to start your day."

  Generally fairly interesting, quick read and summary (combine with the many other newsletters one seems to get….

• Using Spaced Repetition and Active Recall with Books to Hack Your Brain – Readwise adds aids to improve learning a d mastery from texts and highlights.
• If you change nothing, nothing will change | Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel – <blockquote>On consuming less, creating more, and traversing the gap in between</blockquote> – Doug collects and summarizes some good thinking on the topic of how we balance our input, output, attention and goals.
• Future of work in America | McKinsey – Long study on work patterns and futures for the US market.

These are my pinboard links for August 20th through August 28th:

• OSoMe: Home – IU (and Knight Foundation) Observatory on Social Media. Performing research and data analysis on social media use, impacts and sharing tools and data to support the same
• Sense Home Energy Monitor – Connects to electrical mains and senses power consumption on a household basis, identifying devices and patterns of use. Quantified House.
• Collection Aids at UMD – Collection aids for UMD music and subculture archives
• From DC punk to library archivist – The Washington Post – A profile in the WaPo of John Davis and his work at archiving material and ephemera related to punk in the DC area
• A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard | Bloomberg Professional Services – A review of the various keyboard designs for the Bloomberg terminal over the years. From Chicklet to trackball to clicky keys.

These are my pinboard links for August 7th through August 14th:

• The Remote Work Report – Survey based report on 486 people covering multiple aspects of remote work – good, bad, ambivalent; much on the success factors.
• Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? – Discussion of the social/capital norms that make LinkedIn a different sort of network.
• Knowledge management: the secret sauce of productivity – Slack tips and breakdowns on knowledge capture, recovery, and distribution.
• I create presentations at Microsoft. Here’s how I avoid “Death by PowerPoint” – Tips on presentation from an experience designer at MSFT
• The Mountain of Memory – Jason Fry – Medium – Lovely meditation on Greece, family, youth, connections, and the permanence of memory and the fiction as well.

These are my pinboard links for October 14th through August 5th:

• Elevate – Monroe County GIS based property maps and records
• “Everyone knows about the Croatian Bocce players at Welles Park” in Chicago | Croatia Week – Finally some background on the neighborhood staples I've observed for years.
• Team Collaboration: Moving from Implementation to Success | Insight for the Connected Enterprise – Brief overview of collaboration adoption
• Welcome – IRCv3 – Project to extend existing IRC protocol set for modern functionality
• IRCCloud – Cloud based irc client and server service.
• 9 Mediterranean Diet Breakfast Recipes We’re Always in the Mood For – <blockquote>What's not to love about Mediterranean breakfast ideas like baked or scrambled eggs with feta cheese and avocado, Greek yogurt pancakes with loads of fresh fruits, and Mediterranean breakfast sandwiches with roasted cherry tomatoes?</blockquote>
• Guide to Chicago Sanborns volumes – Early 20th C insurance maps for Chicago, searchable.
• Taking a People-First Approach to Unified Communications –
• How to Make Yogurt and Greek Yogurt at Home | Serious Eats – Yogurt tips and tricks
• Your Past Is Not Your Future: Overcoming Time Management Regret – The New York Times – Therapeutic tips on time management, avoidance, and movement forward.
• OZ magazine, London | Historical & Cultural Collections | University of Wollongong – Digital archive of 1960s newspaper Oz
• A Personal Case Study on Network-Building: Selfishness, Frequent Collisions, and my Colearning Experiment – eek on his colearning and social experiments
• Skype for Business Server 2015 Firewall Diagram – FW diagram for SfB 2015
• The New York Times: Your Past is Not Your Future: Overcoming Time Management Regret – Notes on the psychology of time.managemeny, especially on change and forgiveness.
• How Slack impacts workplace productivity – Vox – Impacts of RTC on productivity.
• Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and the SaaS Opportunity – Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On market growth and strategies in UC.
• Synchronous Text : On Mozilla moving away from IRC –
• Matt Haughey home wifi –
• I Let A Stranger Watch Me Work – Mel magazine article about virtual coworking service Focusmate
• Google’s three tips for remote work – Based in a survey of teams and employees – a FC summary.
• Monroe County Electronics Recycling – Ewaste info for Monroe County, IN
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) – The New York Times – NYT piece discussing the background and some of the emotional sources of procrastination
• IP and Bits –
• Mio – Keep your teams in sync – Cross platform interop for Microsoft Teams, Cisco and Slack.
• The Slack Bubble and the reality of  the Professional Instant Messaging Market – A review of Enterprise IM market and new entrant do.ne.
• Zulip – An open / licensed group chat service (Slack-ish)

  <blockquote>Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.</blockquote>

• Gluten-Free Restaurants: Chicago –
• How Collaboration put man on the moon –
• No, You Can’t Ignore Email. It’s Rude. – Discussion of email usage and collaboration, with a social science bent.
• The Organizational Spectroscope – Review of email usage and management / occupational health at Microsoft.
• Internet-era ways of working – Public Digital – <blockquote>An earlier draft of this list, stuck to the PD office door Our definition of digital says: “Applying the culture, processes, business models & technologies of the internet-era to respond to people’s raised expectations.” Once they’ve heard that, the next thing people always ask us is: “OK. But how? How do I make that happen…</blockquote>
• Taking Care of Business: Debuting Our Fifth Annual Businesses @ Work Report | Okta –
• Selecting the Best Nonprofit CRM. Salesforce vs. Insightly vs. Infusionsoft vs. CiviCRM – 2017 Review of non-profit orientated CRM selection criteria.
• How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices – Article on several zine libraries, with a focus on zine library studies around feminism, trans and other marginalized audiences.
• Library Planet – A crowdsourced Lonely Planet for libraries <3 – Touristing? Why not visit a library?
• How I got to 200 productive hours a month –

These are my pinboard links for June 13th through October 14th:

• cleaning up unused Lync accounts –
• Reading War and Peace on my iPhone | Book Recommendations and Reviews | BOOK RIOT –
• The lost rivers that lie beneath London – BBC News –
• Don’t Let ChatOps Become ChatOops – Michael Ansel – Ignite video of bot utilization in the devops environment at Box. Very slick
• Lync 2013 Call Forwarding Report Tool – Analyses of user dump to highlight delegation, forwarding,etc

These are my pinboard links for April 5th through May 17th:

• Article: Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit – Another Zappos/Holacracy piece
• Saent – Be less distracted – Physicality of pomo/distraction management
• Best practices for Outlook 2010 – Email and productivity tips from MSFT
• MindAlign 6.0 Realigns IM – Review of the 6.0 build of MindAlign
• Your Nostalgia Isn’t Helping Me Learn — The Synapse — Medium – a rebuttal / response to the debate over paper vs electronic note taking and learning.

These are my pinboard links for August 31st through January 7th:

• Donna Young’s Cursive Handwriting Practice – Exercises to learn/improve cursive
• Understand Lync Databases | The Lync Dude – Quick overview of the databases used by Lync (2010/2013)
• The so-called IRC “specifications” – Breakdown of IRC Specs, humorous and accurate.
• How Google sets goals: OKRs | Google Ventures – OKR (Objectives and Key Results) a tool promoted by Grove and used at Google for quarterly, public, analysis.
• Custom bookcases in Chicago, cabinetry, built-ins, furniture, custom cabinets and wood accessories in Evanston and Chicago –