Archive of posts from August 2018

Daily Post #0263 • August 31 2018 • Craft

Do they fit your team?

How do we know? What do they need?

Daily Post #0262 • August 30 2018 • Craft

The simpler version

It takes a lot more work to make less:

Daily Post #0261 • August 30 2018 • Experience

Doing the wrong work

What do you think about at 5am?

Daily Post #0260 • August 28 2018 • Narrative

Your mind is like your computer desktop

If it’s a mess, you won’t find anything:

Daily Post #0259 • August 27 2018 • Momentum

You’ve got (more) problems

We all solve problems in the marketplace. But we may not always know how many:

Daily Post #0258 • August 26 2018 • Momentum

Don’t leave it to Chance

“What Chance has made yours is not really yours” – Seneca

Daily Post #0257 • August 25 2018 • Craft

Take your own advice

Because we don’t always, do we?

Daily Post #0256 • August 24 2018 • Craft

Lost Minutes

When we have one project to do, we get on with it.

Daily Post #0255 • August 23 2018 • Experience

Trust-rate optimization

Marketers like to talk about conversions.

Daily Post #0254 • August 22 2018 • Momentum

Being stuck is a decision

Do we really decide to be stuck?

Daily Post #0253 • August 21 2018 • Momentum

That’ll do

These are seen as dirty words. They’re not if used well:

Daily Post #0252 • August 20 2018 • Momentum

Needs more thought

Or does it?

Daily Post #0251 • August 19 2018 • Experience

About the things you don’t need to do

This topic is a popular one. And it often misses the point.

Daily Post #0250 • August 18 2018 • Experience

Faucet or force-it?

When approaching the marketplace, we have a choice to make:

Daily Post #0249 • August 17 2018 • Craft

Hidden work

There’s important work to do, but it’s often hidden from view:

Daily Post #0248 • August 16 2018 • Momentum

Cleaning your desk

This one is a simple one.

Daily Post #0247 • August 15 2018 • Narrative

It’s not what it ‘seems like’

The longer you’re around, the more ‘seems like’ goes out of the window:

Daily Post #0246 • August 14 2018 • Craft

Unfinished theology

The smartest people I’ve met have unfinished theology.

Daily Post #0245 • August 13 2018 • Momentum

Just good enough ​

Teams are great when the many is greater than the few.

Daily Post #0244 • August 12 2018 • Momentum

What’s the point? ​

Beyond ‘the goal’, what’s ‘the point’ of the work we’re doing?

Daily Post #0243 • August 11 2018 • Craft

What creativity and good memory have in common ​

They’re not things any of us have:

Daily Post #0242 • August 10 2018 • Momentum

Your team is ugly ​

And so is mine. And that’s the way it should be:

Daily Post #0241 • August 09 2018 • Craft

They don’t make teams like they used to ​

The digital workforce has a hidden secret: it’s going soft.

Daily Post #0240 • August 08 2018 • Craft

Don’t learn the rules ​

If you already have, then forget them:

Daily Post #0239 • August 07 2018 • Momentum

Systems aren’t the point ​

I like systems. If you’re on an effective team, you probably like them too.

Daily Post #0238 • August 06 2018 • Craft

The wheel works ​

We know to not ‘reinvent the wheel’. Yet it remains tempting:

Daily Post #0237 • August 05 2018 • Experience

How long is five minutes?

Exactly how long is a five minute wait, really?

Daily Post #0236 • August 04 2018 • Momentum

Cold at scale

Is your team cold at scale?

Daily Post #0235 • August 03 2018 • Craft

Don’t touch base

Thinking of setting up a meeting to “touch base”?

Daily Post #0234 • August 02 2018 • Craft

When is a tool more than a tool ​

When smartwatches started becoming prevalent, the chairman of Rolex was asked how they may influence the watch business. To which he replied, “I don’t know. I’m not in the watch business.”

Daily Post #0233 • August 01 2018 • Craft

The problem about this project ​

…is that its full of things we don’t need:

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