Mental Overhead Another type of friction we experience is from the ongoing mental overhead of having too many balls in the air. Unfinished projects, unanswered… Read More »Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
There’s a lot to be said for batching – saving up similar jobs and then working through them efficiently in one go. But doing little… Read More »Little jobs
The idea is really just this: time on a watch is not the same as time in your head. An hour can fly by or… Read More »Time on our hands: la durée
If you ask most people who run a factory, or an organisation or a sports team, what they’re looking for is a taut, firm connection… Read More »Seth Godin on slack in systems
Akimbo Season 4 Episode 20 (July 10, 2019) – Systems Thinking This is a great episode of riffs on how systems create – and constrain… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Systems Thinking
We often focus on the money, but it’s not a cause or an end in itself. It helps to think of your financial position as… Read More »Money: cause or symptom?
1866 Helen Beatrix Potter born in London. 1876 Beatrix Potter has already been doing a lot of drawing and painting. This watercolour is from 1876,… Read More »Seeds (3): becoming Beatrix Potter
The theory of the business must be known and understood throughout the organisation. This is easy in the organization’s early days. But as it becomes… Read More »Drucker on the theory of the business
What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? Paul… Read More »Gifts
And do you trust that the people you’re following can get you there? Have they been there before? Has anyone been there before? For interesting… Read More »Where do you want to go?