Tag: work

The carryover process

The most important moment in meditation is the instant you leave the cushion. When your practice session is over, you can jump up and drop the whole thing, or you can bring those skills with you into the rest of your activities.

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana – Mindfulness in Plain English.

Workspace. A look inside Trent Walton’s home office set up. The adjustable desk, tabletop, and view out the windows look fantastic. I dig the small tips and tricks from posts like this. For example, the Magic Charger that Trent mentions looks great.

What we told current Journalism majors about working at startups. Good advice for anyone in school right now. Numbers 1, 10, 12, and 22 are my favorites of the bunch.

The Future of Work

The Future of Work: What happens when talent trumps capital? It will be interesting to watch as large incumbent businesses come to rely upon software more heavily. This short post considers how they’ll maintain a high level when “who” matters more than “how much.”

The Jobsian fallacy

We are fascinated by our giants and this fascination motivates us to learn. This is good. But we continually forget every story in this world is unique. We can’t cherry pick the convenient elements of one successful life and graft it into our own, expecting the same results. Had da Vinci or Ford been born today, they might have ended up janitors or car salesmen. And a school teacher or gardener from their times, born today, might have transformed the world. We don’t want to see success as fragile or circumstantial, but the slightest touch of chance in the lives of any great man or woman, and we’d never know their names.

Scott Berkun – The Jobsian fallacy.

First, make rice. Before you move on, it’s crucial to really understand and master the basics. Sometimes it’s those basic tasks that are really the most important.

Status

I set up a quick status blog on WordPress.com today. It auto posts the content to Twitter so it’s handy for when I want to post the occasional status. Plus, I’m now dogfooding another part of what I work on every day which is always good.

“Somebody else will not let me do anything”

The assertion that “somebody else will not let me do anything” should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.

Peter Drucker – The Effective Executive.

Unitasking. Trent Walton writes about what changes when you force yourself to focus on one task at a time. I’ve had similar experiences when going from my 27″ cinema display to the 11″ Air. Sometimes a smaller screen makes it easier to work, not harder.

Are Jobs Obsolete?

Our problem is not that we don’t have enough stuff — it’s that we don’t have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

Douglas Rushkoff – Are Jobs Obsolete? via Daniel