I Hate PowerPoint Let me get this out of the way: I haven’t touched PowerPoint since middle school. I forgot how it works. I don’t want to remember. When I worked at BitNinja, I had to give presentations all the time. Technical talks, demos, explanations. Every time someone said “can you prepare some slides?” I died a little inside. Not because I hate presenting - I actually enjoy it. I hate the tools. ...
I realized that using a project management framework is not an option for me. Usually, I adapt how my current company works, but this may not be a good choice if you already have a so-called working system. I like the idea of what I call scrumban. It is a mixture of Scrum and Kanban. In this framework, I have: a backlog a prioritized list of the current sprint activities daily standups the in-progress queues should only contain 2-4 active items that I’m working on if something important lands on my desk, I can add the todo to my current tasks. if I have done everything in the “sprint”, I can pick anything from my backlog And eventually, I have an opportunity to reevaluate my working habits. When I showed my Obsidian Kanban board to my spouse, she said: “This is great! But it would be better if I could also add some tasks to you.” You know, like cleaning, going to the grocery, fixing this, anything like these. ...