Ben Horowitz – The Hard Thing About Hard Things
This is a great cut-the-crap book about management and building a company. It’s most relevant to the the tech world, but there are plenty of… Read More »Ben Horowitz – The Hard Thing About Hard Things
April 2019
The soft option
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are… Read More »The soft option
Externalities
We’re familiar with the externalities of industrial production and consumption. They’re fairly predictable, and often visible. Even air pollution, the silent killer, is usually visible… Read More »Externalities
Education for the future: Key tools
Here are some tools that don’t go out of date: Tools for thinking, learning and understanding (the tools that help you acquire new tools); Tools… Read More »Education for the future: Key tools
Seth Godin: freelancing and the hard work of being an entrepreneur
Freelancers get paid when they work. Using our own fingers, our own skills, we do the work. So when I’m making a podcast, it’s me.… Read More »Seth Godin: freelancing and the hard work of being an entrepreneur
Listen to the technology: Kevin Kelly and the giant copy machine
Technology often has built in biases, certain ways that it wants to be used. So the internet is the largest copy machine in the world… Read More »Listen to the technology: Kevin Kelly and the giant copy machine
Cohort
Seth Godin talks quite a lot about cohorts: “The people who get you. The ones who have been through it with you. Who see you.”… Read More »Cohort
Learning through use: Kevin Kelly on technology finding its way
I’m a big believer that the way we steer technology is through engagement, by use. I find that most of the inventors don’t even have… Read More »Learning through use: Kevin Kelly on technology finding its way
Five Questions: John Greenall
Introduce yourself: who are you, what do you do, and why is it important? I’m John and I’m the National Field Director at the Christian… Read More »Five Questions: John Greenall
What’s it worth? (2)
The way of thinking I described yesterday also applies to buying equipment, services and training in an organisation. The question isn’t simply “How much does… Read More »What’s it worth? (2)
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