I am much more of a fox than a hedgehog. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site, you’ll find a boatload of posts on the future of work, higher education, technology, platforms, communication, collaboration, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I write more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. I inject humor often into my posts and freakin’ despise jargon. Click here to see an interactive word cloud and treemap of my posts’ tags.
Update on Slack For Dummies
What’s up with book number nine.
Talking Tech With Professor Simon
Encouraging important discussions about the role of technology in our society.
How a Good Syllabus Can Set the Right Tone With Students
Why not show them that you’ve got a little personality?
Looking for Slack For Dummies Case Studies
Is your organization using Slack in interesting ways?
Visualizing My Books
An interactive Tableau dashboard on what I write about and where I write.
Announcing My Next Book: Slack For Dummies
I’ll be penning the definitive guide on my favorite collaboration tool.
A Visual Look at Breaking Bad IMDB Ratings
How each episode of my favorite show stacks up.
Visualizing the 2019 Men’s Wimbledon Final
A look back at one of the most exciting matches in tennis history.
Visualizing My Teaching Schedule
Sometimes Gantt charts actually make sense.
A Visual Look at the Success of NBA Franchises
Some teams have been remarkably consistent.
Visualizing Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals
Geeking out with Tableau again.
The Analytics Project That “College Me” Would Do
If I were 21 again …
How Dataviz Can Manifest a Tale of Two Sports
It doesn’t take long to compare the states of golf and tennis.
Thoughts on Learning Tableau
Knowing how one contemporary tool, programming language, or framework works makes it easier to pick up new ones.
Summer Reading
Being able to regularly feed my brain is a nice perk of professor life.