Category: Links of Interest
Good Things Are Hard and Have High Failure Rates, We Should Still Try
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If we made all our decisions based on the actually odds of success, we’d rarely attempt anything risk or achieve anything significant. – Late Bloomers 212 Many of the freelancer’s that were my “peers” when I started aren’t freelancing anymore. Sure we see a few that have built companies instead, but I’m not counting them…
Add WHY to Your Bullet Journal Tasks
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I like the why question in this Bullet Journal video. Do you ever ask yourself why you’re doing the things you do in the day?
Ryder Carroll on Adding Journaling to Your Bullet Journal
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I use a Bullet Journal and include long form journaling right inline with my tasks for the day. In fact, it’s mostly a log of what I’ve done that day and how I felt about it. If you’re interested in doing some journaling in your notebook here is a good video one way to do…
On Getting Kids Out Playing
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Lena Aburdene Derhally writing for Washington Post Because we have become such a work- and results-driven society, free, unscheduled play for children has taken a back seat. In fact, since 1955, free play has been declining. She goes on to talk about some good tips for getting your kids outside. One thing I think she…
Notifications Slice Into the Family Cocoon
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Although the barrier between work and the-rest-of-life has been eroding steadily, it’s taken the smartphone to shatter it altogether. Her incessant buzzing — Check me! Check me! It just might be important! — slices into our family cocoon. – For Better or for Work I’m starting to do research into a new book project and…
Performance Reviews Kill Culture
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From Farnam Street on performance reviews killing culture. The problem is that ranking someone against their peers is not the ranking that matters and is counterproductive in terms of building an exceptional corporate culture. Makes me think of what I read this morning in Leaders Eat Last about it not being the people that are…
Automation Isn’t Good or Bad
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CJ Chilvers on automation. Automations aren’t good or bad. They’re a powerful tool that can make your life more livable, or take the life out of life. I’ve automated parts of my Friday newsletter like collecting all the links I post in the week and putting them in the newsletter. I haven’t automated commenting about…
It’s Not the People That Are the Problem It’s the Environment
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What too many leaders of organizations fail to appreciate is that it’s not the people that are the problem. The people are fine. Rather, it’s the environment in which the people operate that is the problem. Got that right and things just go – Leaders Eat Last Page 97 I think that the biggest problem…
Notebook Reading Chart
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Nice reading chart from Jamie Todd Rubin. Tempted to build one into my notebooks somehow, I do go through two notebooks a year with my reading notes so I’d have a transfer it all the time.
Staycation Means Errands
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CJ Chilvers says go camping. It’s totally OK to do nothing. Your life could use a pause button. But even on vacation, we feel the need to run errand after errand to keep family and/or friends happy. That’s not needed with camping. You’re expected to hang out on a hammock for a few hours, getting…