Seth Godin on slack in systems
If you ask most people who run a factory, or an organisation or a sports team, what they’re looking for is a taut, firm connection… Read More »Seth Godin on slack in systems
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Resource: Seth Godin on Systems Thinking
Akimbo Season 4 Episode 20 (July 10, 2019) – Systems Thinking This is a great episode of riffs on how systems create – and constrain… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Systems Thinking
Seeds (3): becoming Beatrix Potter
1866 Helen Beatrix Potter born in London. 1876 Beatrix Potter has already been doing a lot of drawing and painting. This watercolour is from 1876,… Read More »Seeds (3): becoming Beatrix Potter
Motion sickness: change and stability
If you’ve ever suffered from motion sickness in a car or on a boat, you probably know that it helps to look at a fixed… Read More »Motion sickness: change and stability
Seeds (2): bikes, planes and automobiles
Many of the seeds of the automobile industry came from bicycle manufacturers (I touched on this in Use, Copy, Repair, Make), and on a visit… Read More »Seeds (2): bikes, planes and automobiles
Shakespeare: sleep no more
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,… Read More »Shakespeare: sleep no more
Typo (4): (no) Standard English
[The task of documenting all the words in the English lanuguage] no longer seems finite. Lexicographers are accepting the languages boundlessness. They know by heart… Read More »Typo (4): (no) Standard English
Seth Godin on fear and reassurance
The way [of handling fear] that doesn’t work is reassurance. Reassurance doesn’t work because you need an infinite amount of it. Someone can give you… Read More »Seth Godin on fear and reassurance
Typo (2): error rate
The other thing about typos is how few we actually make relative to the attention we pay to them. A single spelling or grammar mistake… Read More »Typo (2): error rate
Typo (1)
I was reading an article – a thoughtful, well researched, nicely structured, neatly expressed piece of writing about something important – when I came across… Read More »Typo (1)