by Havi Brooks | Dec 20, 2011 | stuff I think about
So it’s been nearly three years since my discovery that my company is a semi-magical pirate ship, and I am a pirate queen. Being a pirate queen has helped me through all sorts of business and personal challenges. Like the thing with the hackers. Design...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 19, 2011 | stuff I think about
The perfect simple solution is a phrase I have borrowed from Hiro. This phrase is actually a sort of perfect simple solution itself, in that it elegantly sums up its own magic in its name. A perfect simple solution is perfect because of its simplicity. The unexpected,...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 13, 2011 | stuff I think about
So right now it’s Rally (Rally!). This is Rally #13. Which is rather an astonishing number of Rallies to have rallied, if you think about it. Didn’t we just come up with the idea?! And we — that is to say, me, fourteen other people and Selma the duck...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 1, 2011 | my personal practice
So I was in Ashland last week. And there was a hat store. And the rule of Havi states that there is no such thing as passing a hat store and not going inside to try on all the hats. And then to acquire hats! Or a hat. Because HATS! If Wile E. Coyote needed to trick me...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 21, 2011 | mindful time management
There are many, many wonderful ways to approach a project and make Giant Progress on it. By “wonderful”, I mean useful, fun, powerful, effective, light-hearted, joyful and/or play-filled. As in: not stressful and depressing. And by “project”, I...
