This is an interesting refinement on my laziness vs. diligence argument a while back. The danger is that it just becomes a slightly more clever way to reinforce the Protestant ethic Properly interpreted, however, Ballard provides a logic for making diligence pay off in compound interest terms.
Let’s all get lazy
If you want to be lazy [...]
[Cross posted at Future Tense]
I’m in the midst of reading John Thackara’s excellent In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, which will eventually warrant a full review. Today, I want to pick up on one particular observation Thackara makes on the role of learning in organizations. He makes the point that
…the most important [...]
Dan Bricklin nicely summarizes most of the nice things I would have said in calling your attention to John Sviokla’s new blog (Sviokla’s Context). I think I can rightly take some credit for persuading John to add his voice and thinking to the mix. John and I first met twenty plus years ago at the [...]
I’ve been exploring the role of deliverables in understanding and improving knowledge work for a while. In January, I took another shot at articulating the link in a column in the Enterprise Systems Journal putting deliverables at the center of the challenge of improving knowledge work.
Knowledge work does not produce standardized, well-defined outputs. Instead, [...]
Truly excellent advice, which I intend to follow as soon as I finish this post. See you on Monday.
Stay away from the net today
Bitflux has a a good post today. I simply quote what they said on this April 1st:
Just go outside, enjoy the sun or do something else useful The net is a [...]
Back in December I wrote a column for the Enterprise Systems Journal on the notion of triangulation as a key data collection and analysis strategy that is increasingly relevant in an economy characterized by information abundance. My central point was that:
In organizational (and other) settings where you are attempting to make sense of—or draw useful [...]
A nice resource courtesy of Jay Cross at Internet Time Blog. It’s been sitting in my aggregator waiting for me to pass it along and to make sure I post it as a resource for the future.
Visual Thinking School.
Dave Gray’s Visual Thinking School is simply wonderful!
[Internet Time Blog]
[Cross posted at Future Tense]
Paul Graham’s latest essay is getting some play including within the David Allen, Getting Things Done, world where I came across it. Frankly, I didn’t find it one of Graham’s better efforts and you’d probably be better off sticking with Allen’s insights about life and work. I’d boil down Graham’s take [...]
Some interesting thoughts on how mindmaps can work in the context of case-based learning.
I'll admit to long-term biases in favor of case-based learning properly
done. I come by these biases having worked all sides of the experience;
case method student, case writer, and case-based discussion leader.
Doing it well can be exceptionally powerful. Doing it poorly is [...]
(cross-posted at Future Tense)
Over the summer I wrote a column for the Enterprise Systems Journal that I neglected to point to at the time. The broad point I was trying to work out was that for all the recent attention to issues of innovation and design, the focus has been on addressing the needs of [...]
