(Don’t) Work Your Hours
If you’re running an organisation or project, your job is not to work your hours. Your job is to see that things get done (not… Read More »(Don’t) Work Your Hours
If you’re running an organisation or project, your job is not to work your hours. Your job is to see that things get done (not… Read More »(Don’t) Work Your Hours
You and your team are not the special forces.* You are not a skydiving team, a cycling team, or the inner circle or a presidential… Read More »Special Forces, Elite Performance and Your Team (1)
Today, in the heat of battle, we face our destiny! That Anonymous Leader in That Film Come on you apes, you wanna live forever? Juan… Read More »Day of Destiny
I love listening to The Lovin’ Spoonful. Their music is sort of laid back and never pretentious. Listening to this soothing music brings back a… Read More »Haruki Murakami on commonplace origin stories; or, Life on the cutting room floor
We don’t believe there’s a tension between product and business, we believe there’s a staging, which is in this [the tech] industry you don’t have… Read More »Marc Andreessen: product vs business
Uncertainty about ends, means and you. There’s an important caveat to the any understanding we come to about ends, means, and your place in the… Read More »“What can I do to make things better?” (3): ends, means, and the Roomba of contingency
While you’re establishing* your habit of thought-and-action, look again at the question. It contains at least three assumptions, each raising another set of questions. 1.… Read More »“What can I do to make things better?” (2): assumptions
This is a great question, and a big question, a question for which help is available but which ultimately, you need to answer for yourself… Read More »“What can I do to make things better?” (1)
When asked at an event if he had more to add on the skill – taste gap: I don’t know… That was something that I… Read More »Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (2): Do it now
Ira Glass seems to have coined (or popularised) the idea of the taste-skill gap. Here’s an extract from the original interview (video below) – the… Read More »Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (1)