Where you do your best work is as important as the work that you do. The environment, the people, your surroundings, your knick-knacks that you fiddle with while on a call. These are all the things that enable you to do your best work. Your favorite mouse and keyboard (oh have I tried with keyboards) are what make you a success and take the “this feels awkward” out of everything you do and let you…
I am writing this on a Saturday. On a day when I should not be concerned with doing anything productive and yet I have that nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I should be “getting up and doing something… anything”. You have this time, use it. You have this opportunity when no one is around, do something it. This is the time when no one is thinking about work or…
The period between starting something new, growing, and mastering it, is Craptivity. That period of living at the bottom of the chart, trying to figure things out, starting, stopping, and failing is where we all live, in whatever we are doing. It is the hardest stage of growth you will ever experience because there is no time limit on it (how nice would it be to know what your expected effort and outcome is in…
Can AI… Tie your shoe (how awesome would that be). Use a Pencil. Put their hand up to ask a question. Slide down a hill and avoid the rocks. Lead your team. Start a team. Okay, these might sound unfair because they are heavily involved in doing things and creating things that require more than simple prompts. What about dealing with inflation and keeping food prices low? What about preventing climate change and normalizing weather…
Write it Down. Get it out on any piece of paper possible, scrap, moleskin notebook, line sheet paper, post it, birch bark, whatever. Whatever is in your head, write it down, get it on paper, put it to the side and then look at it the next day. You don’t need a fancy notebook, but if that works do it. Just write it out.