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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
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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
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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
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Achieving Stillness in the Turmoil of Life With Ryan Holiday
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To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To posses quietude — interior and exterior — on command. 1 Early in Stillness is the Key Holiday introduces us to his end goal of the book in the quote above. He wants to
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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.
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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
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Automating Tasks and Projects in Things iPadOS
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In early 2018 Cultured Code added excellent URL Scheme support to Things 3 and while we have new functionality in Shortcuts that may make URL Schemes obsolete, that’s not the case currently if you want to automatically build projects in Things. Today I’m going to walk you through a bunch of the automations I have
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Friday Notes 080 – November 22 2019
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One of the things I always wonder about is what parents who work out of the house do when their kid suddenly gets sick and they have to deal with it. Today (Thursday) my 9-year-old is upstairs not feeling well in the bathroom, but that doesn’t mean I have to take time off work. My
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When do Women Peak in Sport?
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My wife and I have been wondering a bunch lately about how women peak in sport. At what age to they peak? How does biology affect their output? Sadly, as we learned in Invisible Women, there really isn’t much out there for research no women in sport. This video from Mary Cain, highlights sports systems
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Be Fast So the Cost of Production Is Small
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James Somers on working quickly. The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more. He also posits that it’s
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