On this glorious first week of the year, it is worth considering who it is that won the day yesterday, in the 11e Arrondissement in France, so that we may stop them from winning the days and weeks and months and years and decades ahead, or at the very least
What does work/life balance mean to you? Most likely, it means something different to what it means to me. There are many ways to define work and life, and the balance between the two, but I'm going to focus on two, that I'll label, ungenerously
One of the immediately interesting ideas I picked up from Reinventing Organizations (and since have discovered in other places, like Joy at Work) is the "Advice Process". This is a decision model that works very well to replace both the top-down decision model and the consensus-based decision model,
I guess it had to happen sometime! My first investment, made a month or two ago but kept quiet until now, is SolidLabs, makers of the Primo Playset that had a successful Kickstarter last year. It's an absolutely awesome project to teach programming to pre-literacy kids via an
In geek circles, the hedonic treadmill is a powerful idea with strong roots. The essence of it is that as humans, we are physiologically designed to never be satisfied without more of whatever it is we crave. In practice, it means that if, for example, you want to “be rich”
“Only hire A players! Fire the B players!” “If you hire B players, then they will hire C players!” “Over time, the A players will get frustrated with the B players and will leave to go to other companies and you’ll be left only with B and C players,
