Replace your boredom with a world-class business education. — It starts with restlessness, then boredom. Maybe a little cleaning. A sudden urge to cook new things. Occasionally, you stand by the front window and dream about actually leaving the house. Maybe you eat traffic with sock puppets. You know that feeling… it’s that intolerable longing to explore you get…

And why I’m still angry after finding it — What if I told you there was a service designed to help you if you can’t find childcare? I recently found out about a fascinating little thing: childcare brokerage. How I didn’t know about this before is absolutely beyond me. Why? Well it seems like the exact sort of thing…

Including how to rewrite your CV to get your next big job interview — I recently decided it was time to rewrite my CV — and the process of doing the CV upgrade completely sucked. When you plan out how to rewrite your resume, you realise that it’s hard to make sure you position yourself in a good light to prospective employers, cover all…

How I built a better writing system — If you had a time machine, what would you teach yourself? If I had a time machine, I’d go back to my high school self and teach her all about personal knowledge management and how to write essays and articles using that knowledge. Why? Well, I think about all those…

Tips for setting up your PKM for academia before you start. I got started with personal knowledge management late. Well, sort of. I didn’t use a reference manager until I started my MBA, having instead used Delicious (an online bookmark manager) for my entire undergraduate degree and for years afterwards…

Are you trying to work between 10–2? — “I’m thinking of retraining to be a teacher because I can’t work outside of school hours with my kids.” It was yet another doomed parent in the school yard resigning themselves to studying for a career they never wanted just because they can’t get childcare hours to do the work…

And how to make sure you want to switch! — A lot of people using personal knowledge management systems get stuck in the endless cycle of collecting information. Unfortunately, all this does is create an enormous pile of notes to read later. And will you read it? The trick to using the information you’ve found to improve your thinking and…

This trick will change your self-education forever — If you’re like me, you probably have at least half a dozen university degrees you wish you’d had time to do. After all these years, you still wish you’d done the physics degree, or the computer science degree, or the medieval history degree one of your friends did. But, in…

It’s all about getting on the stage. — I’m sure you’ve met someone who seems like a natural performer. Just think of the cool girl with the amazing hair and laid-back attitude who one day saves the day with “Oh, I could get my band to do the gig if you want”. Of course she has a band…