Personal Notes from Digitalia.

What happens when you try to coach kids to be self-organising footballers? Mixed results and business lessons.

How to spot real expertise and figure out if you're actually talking to an expert.

Wait a second: How can a Scrum Master not like sprinting? Well, I like the concept, but not the word: In Scrum, a sprint is an event and container for all other scrum events such as the sprint …

When do you have everything together to start properly? A look at getting briefed before diving in.

Why are you still holding onto goals you'll never actually pursue?

Most things in life are marathons. You can plan well until the finish line, but it rarely unfolds as expected.

Facebook blocks all news for Australian users. What's really behind this move?

My simple nerd workflow for publishing notes online.

Good expectations management with your team and client improves every project.

Getting more done with the Pomodoro technique and borrowed sprint concepts.

Standard questions to get a stalled conversation moving again.

When you're afraid to share your work with the world, a bit of humility and less ego might help.

You can achieve plenty without talent. But only if you stick at it.

Which talents have been lying dormant in you for years? Time to dust them off and put them to work.

Password managers are important. But nobody uses them. Why is that?

How do you know when something is ready to publish or hand over? It all comes down to your Definition of Done.

Ruthless pruning and careful nurturing — you need both for a proper content clean-up.

When you've understood something, stop overthinking it. Let it settle. Then do the real work.

Where do you store information when you get an unexpected phone call? A journey through note-taking tools — and the realisation that plain text files from 2012 are still perfectly readable.

Are you serving the right audience — or just chasing the money and selling yourself to the highest bidder?