Kicking cans: job descriptions versus culture
A few days ago I watched a schoolboy kicking a can down the road. He kicked it a couple of times and then miskicked, sending… Read More »Kicking cans: job descriptions versus culture
A few days ago I watched a schoolboy kicking a can down the road. He kicked it a couple of times and then miskicked, sending… Read More »Kicking cans: job descriptions versus culture
Seasons are a great tool for starting and ending well. They allow low-stakes launches and clean breaks. They make intensity easier by allowing fallow time… Read More »Seasons
Here’s a set of quickfire questions you might enjoy answering: Introduce yourself: who are you, what do you do, and why is it important? What’s… Read More »DriverlessCrocodile ping-pong: five questions, ten minutes (v0.1)
If you haven’t, go and read Seth Godin’s posts here and here. It sounds hard, but daily turns out to be easier than weekly or… Read More »The Daily
Not just shiny new stuff It was clear (at least to me) that technology was an extension of natural life, but in what ways was… Read More »Kevin Kelly – what is technology?
The idea … that we have is that there’s some genius in an attic… cooking up technology and coming up with inventions. But it started… Read More »W. Brian Arthur on combinatorial innovation
This howto is entirely based on David Taylor‘s excellent Introduction to Audacity youtube lesson. With apologies for the boring soundcheck used in the examples. Preamble… Read More »Podcasting Howto: workflow for recording and improving sound quality for a podcast using Audacity
I’ve already shared an extract from this episode about systems thinking here, but the whole interview is fascinating and everyone I’ve recommended it to has… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Marc Andreesen on The Moment with Brian Koppelman
At the eleventh hour – just in time – in the dying, last-gasp seconds… Find a way to ship.
No doubt your organisation has lots of moving parts, many of which are specific to what you do. But it’s probably also made up of… Read More »Building blocks and open source organisations