October 25, 2024
Communities are big, they can have many people, and they are the accumulation of tribes. Tribes are cohorts within a community, they are carved out groups with needs, interests, and goals. Communities can have many tribes. Both are great to serve, contribute to, and work for, the key is knowing which one you are there for.
October 22, 2024
I came in this morning brimming with Creative Flow – ideas for posts were bouncing through my head and how to fix some persistent work problems. I could have started by doing my other work, but the pull was too great and I started writing them all down, getting them all out as fast as you can. I’m lucky because I have a job where I can do that for an hour a day, others don’t I know. But imagine if each person on your team spent the first hour of their day thinking of ways to make their job,
October 20, 2024
Just because I saw a cool post on how to make shelters out of logs and deep holes, doesn’t mean I want to do this full-time. It doesn’t mean I want to start eating ration packs, and filtering my own urine. It doesn’t mean I want to live by myself all the time. It just means, I saw a video of a guy building a shelter with his hands, thought it was neat, picked up a few quick tips, and worked on it. It doesn’t mean I’m quitting my job and becoming a bushman. That’s the problem with algorithms, they
October 18, 2024
Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.
October 17, 2024
Biking in the rain is a weird endeavor. One – biking is minimal impact to your body (unless you get hit by a car) so the exercise is good. But biking in the rain can become a miserable experience, you’re soaked, you have to be more careful and it’s hard to see. There is the option to simply not bike, but if you go one way, you have to go the other way to get back. Biking is quite like leading a team or project, when the conditions are perfect, it’s awesome – the sun is shining, you can feel
