Excellent reflections on his creative process, the value of "sleeping on it", and the battle between flow and interruption. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better way to spend 10 minutes of your day
Tagged creativityDeliverables should be a knowledge worker’s best friend but, like all good friendships, the relationship can get complicated. One of the most direct ways to improve the quality of knowledge work is to spend more time and effort to define appropriate deliverables. My faith in deliverables has grown out of decades of practical consulting experience, [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, observable workMy good friend Jack Vinson has put together the following useful information for blog readers who are using Bloglines and now in need of a new solution. Like Jack, it appears that about a quarter of my current subscribers use Bloglines to follow McGee’s Musings. If that applies to you, Jack’s advice is applicable to [...]
[Cross posted at FASTForward Blog] How might we best go about improving knowledge work, both practices and outputs, in today’s complex organizational environment? Are there paths other than simple trial and error that might lead to systematic gains? Frederick Taylor and his followers built their careers on finding the one best way to carry out [...]
Tagged Learning, observable work, Practices, software developmentBruce Schneier is one of those disciplined, articulate, thinkers you should be paying attention to if you want to navigate sensibly in today’s digital world. Here’s a brief example from a recent EastWest Institute Cybersecurity Summit. I’d also recommend his blog, Schneier on Security.
Tagged Schneier, Security
