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No More Scheduling Polls

As a community leader, 9x serial conference organizer, public speaker, and open source maintainer, I often get asked by community members for a time to meet. Here’s the thing: asking me for a time to meet is, itself, a waste of time. My calendar shifts constantly: work meetings, family activities, conference travel, PRs to review, all of the above. The back-and-forth to schedule a 30-minute call often takes longer than the meeting itself. By the time you’ve asked and I’ve replied and we’ve gone back and forth, the slot we landed on is already gone.

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Travel Budgeting without Spreadsheet

This is a follow up to my previous post, Travel Planning with AI. One of my parting thoughts in that post is about travel budgeting and spreadsheets. Having a budget is important part of our travel decision-making. It helps us decide whether we could even afford the trip, or maybe we need to cut down on the number of travel days, things like that. The budget is also important to be tracked during the trip, to ensure we remain close to the budget and not overspend.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 | 11 minutes Read
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Don't Use Forms for Event RSVPs

Stop Using Forms (or spreadsheets) for Event RSVPs If you’re organizing an event, and you’re still using a form or a spreadsheet to collect RSVPs, stop. This is 2025, and there are better tools out there to help you manage your event RSVPs. Why Do You Need RSVPs? “All I need is a list of people who want to come to my event”. Why do you need this list? And how does spreadsheet help you with this?

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Saturday, July 5, 2025 | 13 minutes Read
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