The problem vs your feelings about the problem
Are you dealing with a difficult maths problem or with difficult feelings about a maths problem? Is the struggle with the work itself, or with… Read More »The problem vs your feelings about the problem
Are you dealing with a difficult maths problem or with difficult feelings about a maths problem? Is the struggle with the work itself, or with… Read More »The problem vs your feelings about the problem
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
Have fun, learn lots, work hard, be kind. Of course you should work smart. Automate what you can. Delegate and outsource to people who can… Read More »Motto (3): Work hard
Here’s a DC-related hitlist for the first part of 2019… images link to Amazon UK. The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution… Read More »A reading list for 2019
We all know about compound interest in the world of money. Save £100 a month for thirty years at one percent interest** and you’ll have… Read More »Compound interest
With types of work (work: generative; work: decisive) the virtue is in the mean.** One plants, births, grows, opens. The other prevents, kills, prunes, closes.… Read More »Work: living in the middle
These are tasks that you can finish and be done with – at least for a time. An annual report, paying a bill, creating a… Read More »Work: executive / decisive