An inbox for the mind
This post comprises notes on a work in progress – a drive to reduce tech-based distractions and learn how to use personal technology help me …
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Keep on moving
Maybe we need to stop thinking of change as something that needs to be managed, an awkward event that comes along every few years and …
Neuroscience bringing work culture to its senses
Interesting video from the Financial Times – an interview with Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and coach who teaches at business schools. For those who care to …
A useful IFTTT recipe for blogging
A really useful piece of advice from Adam Tinworth about blogging is this: bring the inspiration or desire to blog as close as possible to …
Cognitive slipstreaming: Thinking is an endurance sport
* Updated * In endurance swimming, I found out this week, you slipstream* just like cyclists do in a peloton. My wife, a sea swimmer, …
If in doubt: Do
A post I read on The School of Life blog has really stuck with me the past day. Perhaps because it invokes Benjamin Franklin, whose framework …
Address powerful goodness
Benjamin Franklin’s day looked like this: Franklin’s structuring of his day like this reminds me of the “daily scaffold” Curtis James talks about in relation …
Tricking yourself out of information overload
According to Oliver Burkeman, informational overload is “suffused with irrationality”: There are millions of information sources we could, in theory, keep up with, but only …
The big lie of always-on, multi-tasking culture: “We think we’re thinking faster, but actually we’re slowing down.”
“We think we’re thinking faster, but actually we’re slowing down.” Caroline Webb, Partner at McKinsey & Co. Following on from my last post, where I …