A Hole in the Heart
Your organisation can live for a long time with deep cultural problems: broken attitudes to people, to the work, to the people you’re trying to… Read More »A Hole in the Heart
Stuart Patience
Writing and Reading as Technology (8): Augmenting Reality
Overlay For those who came in late, here’s everyone’s favourite online encyclopedia on AR: Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (8): Augmenting Reality
Drawabox: Change in Perspective
This is a straightforward recommendation: if you have fun drawing, aren’t very good at it and would like to get better, Drawabox is an excellent… Read More »Drawabox: Change in Perspective
Jo Freeman: The Tyranny of Structureless and Hidden Elites
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
“Shame On You”
… is an odd construction. We don’t say “Joy on you”, or “Pride on you”.* I speculate (please correct me if you know better) that… Read More »“Shame On You”
Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
This is a crossover post with the Literacy as Technology thread – I’ll weave some of these ideas in there in the coming days. Kevin… Read More »Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
Keynes on Purposiveness, Not Loving your Cat, and Ending Up in a Jam
Hat-tip to the excellent Oliver Burkeman and his 4000 Weeks. An interesting combination of the thoughtful, the fun, and the terribly naive from the great… Read More »Keynes on Purposiveness, Not Loving your Cat, and Ending Up in a Jam
Alan J. Perlis on Programming and Avoiding the Constipation of Philosophy
Educators, generals, dieticians, psychologists, and parents program. Armies, students, and some societies are programmed. An assault on large problems employs a succession of programs, most… Read More »Alan J. Perlis on Programming and Avoiding the Constipation of Philosophy
Christopher Dawson: Culture, Cult and Cultivation
Every culture is like a plant. It must have its roots in the earth, and for sunlight it needs to be open to the spiritual.… Read More »Christopher Dawson: Culture, Cult and Cultivation
Recommendation: Steve Blank, Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thyer on using Jobs-To-Be-Done to Define Markets
Recommended. Podcast here; transcript here; extracts below. How should a market be defined?It’s worth remembering that people buy products and services to get a “job”… Read More »Recommendation: Steve Blank, Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thyer on using Jobs-To-Be-Done to Define Markets