HBR exec summaries
I love this executive summaries section at the end of the paper version of the Harvard Business Review. I don’t know if it has been …
thinking
Thinking with machines
From Ray Dalio’s fascinating book, Principles. During those terrible days after 9/ 11, when the whole country was being whipsawed by emotion, or the weeks …
Threshold concepts
“Threshold concepts” is a term from higher education theory, meaning an idea or a piece of knowledge which, once understood, is transformative – it changes …
Outliner thinking
In this MIT Technology Review article about different writing and blog authoring tools – As We May Type – Paul Ford describes a tribe I wasn’t aware …
Thinking about Diigo (and some useful tips)
If there is one online tool that I would recommend anyone who thinks for a living, it’s Diigo. The new version of Diigo, launched a month …
Artefact Cards and liminal states: creative thinking breakthrough tools
There’s a long, long list in my subconscious that I hardly dare look at: Things I Should Have Blogged. The items comprise three types: Important …
Experts, framing and starting with the end in mind
One thing I have learned from listening to and spending time with experts is that a lot of expertise is not articulated explicitly. Their mental …
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, …
Working fast and slow
Maria Popova blogged about a book called Reading Like a Writer – by the aptly named Francine Prose – that looks at the importance of reading …
Learning to learn, thinking about thinking
Image: my niece, Boudicca, being amazing, as babies are wont to do… How our brains work is something that I’m reading and thinking about a …