No breakthroughs
The water breaks through because upstream – far enough up that there isn’t any stream – there’s a drip, drip, drip. Enough drips to puddle,… Read More »No breakthroughs
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Matt Mullenweg on distributed work
Here’s a short video with Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic*. He talks a bit about lessons he’s learned in running a distributed company,… Read More »Matt Mullenweg on distributed work
Toolkit (v0.1)
My last post got me thinking again about the toolkit for making change and building a good future. What follows started out as the tail… Read More »Toolkit (v0.1)
Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
If you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really hasn’t been invented; it’s only been done. When I published The Practice of Management fifty… Read More »Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
Just in time (2): “I’ll just…”
There’s another kind of just in time. This is the kind when you lie to yourself: “I’ll just squeeze this extra thing in, and I’ll… Read More »Just in time (2): “I’ll just…”
Just in time (1)
There’s a good sort of just in time. We plan something, know what needs to happen and how, know what we need to do it… Read More »Just in time (1)
The last ten minutes…
…before you leave the house is not the time to start moving faster. Strange things happen to time in the last ten, and the minutes… Read More »The last ten minutes…
Organisational friction
is caused by things in your working day that you live with or work around but that sap your time, energy or attention and make… Read More »Organisational friction
Too many buckets
You can fill a bucket pretty quickly under a tap. But try and fill a lot of buckets at once – a drip here, a… Read More »Too many buckets
GNU-GPL – a base of code
Richard Stallman famously wrote the GNU GPL, which is a license based on copy-left, not copyright. His position is the freedom to work with computers… Read More »GNU-GPL – a base of code
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