Jo Freeman provides a helpful lens for looking at organisations, articulating things about organisational life that most of us know intutively but struggle to express… Read More »Jo Freeman: The Tyranny of Structureless and Hidden Elites
Here are three water dispensers: … may not be a thing of beauty but it’s clean and relatively well designed in terms of the aesthetics… Read More »Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
Yak Shaving: Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves… Read More »Yak Shaving
Note: unusually for me, this post contains affiliate links. I am just some guy that ClickUp have never heard of, but they made it very… Read More »One tool to rule them all? Why ClickUp is really good.
There are plenty of problems you could solve. Your job is to choose a couple of important ones and bring energy and intelligence to bear… Read More »Making things better
“… only pausing to remark that many find it unnecessary to fill the mouth to its utmost capacity.” Misquotation of Pip in David Lean’s Great… Read More »More than you can chew
It is far, far easier to use a tool that you’re in the way of using regularly, that you can just pick up and do… Read More »Close to hand
Some ways of thinking about setting salaries: Market Rate You pay the lowest price that the market will bear. The bigger the market (the more… Read More »How to set salaries
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
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