How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Your Smartphone

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 12, 2016 | Business

This weekend, I had the bizarre impulse to text my two year old to tell her something. Although it would be an effective way to communicate important updates (“Emma’s mom is picking you up at preschool!”), I clearly don’t want to rush my daughter’s childhood. I know...

Great Links this Week

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 10, 2016 | Best Links

  We spend a lot of time in this space chatting about productivity and how to work well. I thought I’d start something new here, shift gears a little bit, and have some fun. A lot of you want to know what I’m reading online. Some things make me think. Some things...

I Haven’t Blogged in Two Months and Here’s the Crazy Reason Why

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 5, 2016 | Blogging

Oh hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! It’s me, Claire. Your long-lost blogging buddy. Generally I love me some good ole’ regular blogging. But things happen, you see, and this year THINGS HAPPENED and it has taken me more than a couple of months to get my groove back. Here’s the...

What I’m Reading {2016}

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 3, 2016 | recovered

I’ve said before that for six years or so I’ve set a goal with my reading. For many years that goal was 100, and I’d usually exceed it by a dozen or so. In 2012, I decided to up the goal to 150, and in 2013 I upped it further to 200 (and exceeded...

All the Things You Cannot Plan

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 26, 2016 | Business, Work by Design

This weekend, a dear friend who is expecting a baby was telling me about her planning woes. She is one of those people who KNOWS things, and even though I have a two year old, and she hasn’t had any children yet, she hands-down knows more about babies, labor, and...