In 1997 Watson’s precursor, IBM’s Deep Blue, beat the reigning chess grand master Garry Kasperov in a famous man-versus machine match. After machines repeated their… Read More »AI and us: Kevin Kelly on ‘centaurs’
Yesterday’s post laid out several reasons benefits of understanding your organisation as a machine.* But many of the important parts of your organisation don’t behave… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
There is never enough time. There are theories about why we’re so bad at predicting how long things will take: the planning fallacy, Brooke’s law… Read More »Double time
Execution Being able to execute means being able to get the right things done at the right times. Good execution is a combination of: Knowledge… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (4)
Positioning Being ready in the right place at the right time makes everything easier. Sometimes you need to position yourself for a better view –… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (3)
I had another go with Audacity this weekend and came across this tutorial for absolute beginners. David Taylor‘s introduction is clear and systematic. He tells… Read More »Recording and editing with Audacity – start here
You see the traffic, approach the road, pause at the kerb, lean forward just as someone passes to get some forward motion, then step into… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (1)
Good to Great is all well and good, but what about Pretty Good to Very Good? I’ve been mulling over the DC podcast and this… Read More »Ordinary people. Good work.
Here’s a short video with Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic*. He talks a bit about lessons he’s learned in running a distributed company,… Read More »Matt Mullenweg on distributed work
My last post got me thinking again about the toolkit for making change and building a good future. What follows started out as the tail… Read More »Toolkit (v0.1)