Problem-Solving

Below are all of the posts with the Problem-Solving tag. A post tagged with Problem-Solving means that it is about Problem-Solving. If a post references Problem-Solving but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the Problem-Solving tag or mentions Problem-Solving, then it will be in the Glossary for "Problem-Solving".

I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:

2024-01-08 Using Automation and Checklists to Diff Across Three Related Projects
A walk through of some automation scripts I wrote to help with a complex multi-repository merge. I also discuss the utility of making checklists for those; especially for those that are likely to experience disruptions.
2022-04-29 On Sharpening Your Tools
Using a Tool and Knowing Its Uses Are Not the Same
2022-04-28 Working on Open Source Community Software Is My Job
And How to Hopefully Create Win/Win/Win Scenarios
2022-03-25 Using a File as a Template in Emacs
Minor Automation to Facilitate End of Week Reporting
2022-02-26 Note Taking with Org Roam and Transclusion
Ever Improving my Personal Note Taking Process
2022-02-07 Org Roam, Emacs, and Ever Refining the Note Taking Process
Always Be Refining Your Config
2022-01-13 Emacs Packages to Get Stuff Done
Recording and Replaying Keystrokes
2022-01-11 Resolving an Unable to Resolve Link Error for Org Mode in Emacs
Documenting to Share a Solution
2021-12-02 Ruby Script to Find Local Branches with Deleted Remotes
Pivoting from One Strategy to Another
2021-11-25 Adding Emacs Function for my Forem Pull Requests
Automating the Repetetive while also Learning a Bit More about My Editor
2021-11-13 Send Anything in OS X to Emacs for Editing
Hacking Away with Hammerspoon and editWithEmacs
2021-11-08 Creating a Documentation Dashboard and Emacs Function
Reducing Friction on Adding Placeholders for My Future Self
2021-10-28 Practicing Postgresql and Postulating (Im)Provements
Returning Again to Databases
2021-10-21 Orienteering in the Time of Remote Work
Or Navigating without One of Your Senses
2021-09-17 Slowing Down to Synthesize
Paper and Pencil Sooth My Soul and Feed My Brain
2021-08-03 Using Magit Built-in Functions for Workflow
Improving on a Hacked Together Function Using Magit
2021-08-02 Emacs Script to Review Git Status of Repositories
Generating a Quasi-TODO List for a Common Mental Model Task
2021-07-17 Organizations Live and Die by Process
Steward Those Processes in Service to the Goals and Values
2021-06-27 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-27)
Not Much But Figured I’d Write Something
2021-06-12 Delving Further into the Why of Emacs
It’s Reducing Context Shifting
2021-06-09 Organizing Information for Retrieval
On Table of Contents, Indices, Glossaries, Citations, and Search
2021-06-08 Further Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits
It Ain’t Emacs if You Ain’t Hacking on Your Config Daily
2021-06-08 Iterating on a Hiring Process (Part 2)
Never Underestimate the Lowly Spreadsheet
2021-06-08 “Total Systems Power” by Barry Oshry
The Conditions We Experience in Our Roles within Systems
2021-06-07 Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits I Want to Develop
But Also, Don’t Go Out and Implement a Bunch of Things
2021-06-04 Iterating on a Hiring Process (Part 1)
Remember, It Is a Project that Impacts People
2021-06-02 Proposing a Documentation Structure and Rationale
Diving a Bit Deeper Into Structure
2021-05-24 Exploring Documentation Location Options
It’s Not Just about Where but Also Sharable Current State
2021-05-20 Conceptualizing a Process for Where and How to Publish the Thing
As a Knowledge Worker, I Generate a Lot of “Information Sharing Artifacts”
2021-05-19 Process Development and Documentation as a Deliverable
Before You Get to Work, Make Sure to Sketch out a Process
2021-04-08 Bringing the Whole Toolkit to Problem-Solving
Some Background, a Work Story, and a Game Plan
2021-03-24 Following Up on My Work Experiment
Hint: People Want Time to Focus
2021-03-17 Work Experiment the Second
Flexing a More Disciplined Approach to My Calendar
2021-03-04 Meetings as a Service
A Strange Work Experiment
2021-02-12 Project Initiation and Change
Building a Coalition to Clarify, Ideate, Design, and Implement