Two ways to waste time
By frivolling useful chunks of time away on things that bring neither useful results nor joy;* By believing that you can’t get anything important done… Read More »Two ways to waste time
The Craft of Research: Booth, Colomb and Williams’ four rules for writing clearly
I highly recommend the Craft of Research as a guide to structuring and writing research. It also contains – in Chapter Seventeen of the third… Read More »The Craft of Research: Booth, Colomb and Williams’ four rules for writing clearly
Talking it through; or, The value of meetings
Meetings are rightly maligned as unproductive timesinks, but I’ve recently been reminded of the things you can gain by simply talking things through together with… Read More »Talking it through; or, The value of meetings
Learning environments: kind, wicked and… fiendish?
This morning I came across a great article by Joshua Sokol – Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World – that… Read More »Learning environments: kind, wicked and… fiendish?
Not long ago; or, Little by little (5): Tyler Cowen on progress in living standards since 1900
More links below [Even since 1990] the U.S. standard of living has increased by a factor of five to seven, estimated conservatively, and possibly much… Read More »Not long ago; or, Little by little (5): Tyler Cowen on progress in living standards since 1900
Vision: some helpful ways of seeing
If you’re working for change, you need several layers of vision: A vision of “better” This is the change you’re working towards – a future… Read More »Vision: some helpful ways of seeing
Agile
If you don’t know a little about Agile software development, it’s important enough that you should. In short, Agile is a lighter-touch, more iterative, team-driven… Read More »Agile
Patrick McKenzie on the value of your idea
Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution. You think you are an exception; you are not. Patrick McKenzie So…… Read More »Patrick McKenzie on the value of your idea
Intelligent Effort
Your job is to apply intelligent effort in the service of others. Effort is work done: energy applied to solving problems. There are lots of… Read More »Intelligent Effort
Do you run faster when not listening to a podcast?
I think I do. Unless it’s an especially good day with the wind at my back, running a good time takes a degree of concentration… Read More »Do you run faster when not listening to a podcast?