Learning and Education
Building the Future in Twelve Easy Pieces
The five– make that the twelve things you need to build an effective organisation for change:
Terry Laughlin: five principles of intelligent swimming (Total Immersion Swimming)
I’ll share five first principles of intelligent, improvement-oriented swimming. First, is to recognize that, as a human swimmer, you are an energy-wasting machine. DARPA, the… Read More »Terry Laughlin: five principles of intelligent swimming (Total Immersion Swimming)
Dan North on deep productivity: Delivering the team
We were working for a well-known software consultancy at a Big Bank that decided to introduce individual performance metrics, “for appraisal and personal development purposes”…… Read More »Dan North on deep productivity: Delivering the team
GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mind
I have always thought that he [Wells] reacted too swiftly to everything; possibly as a part of the swiftness of his natural genius. I have… Read More »GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mind
Three Times a Week
If you do something for an hour or two once a week – go for a run, play a sport or an instrument, make some… Read More »Three Times a Week
David Pinsof on Social Paradoxes
David Pinsof (psychologist and one of the designers of Cards Against Humanity [Amazon UK]) has just popped into my list of People to Listen to… Read More »David Pinsof on Social Paradoxes
The first time takes twice as long
There is a world of difference between doing something for the first time, doing it a second time, doing it regularly, and doing it as… Read More »The first time takes twice as long
Design Matters (21): Book of Common Prayer, built to last
RULE TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLY-DAYS BEGIN EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon,… Read More »Design Matters (21): Book of Common Prayer, built to last
Wise Guys
We all get older; not everyone gets wiser. A wise person has learned: they make fewer of certain kinds of mistake – in particular the… Read More »Wise Guys