In Buddhist philosophy one of the most important life ‘skills’ to develop is to loosen ones attachments. I’m not a Buddhist, but as an approach to life it has a lot to commend it but I’ve always struggled with this lack of attachment idea. It’s always seemed to me that...
While I was out walking yesterday (and trying to distract myself from the sensation of my leg muscles tearing due to a nasty flare) I was thinking about how to go about gathering information at scale. The most popular mechanism for this is to survey a population asking them for...
A few days ago I wrote about how I keep a largely automated diary using the Momento app on my iPhone. When I started to keep this diary it was a side effect of using twitter and over the years, as the tweet count topped a thousand, I noticed that...
Life would be a lot easier if I had a single Twitter account linked to a single Facebook account. Unfortunately I’m rarely satisfied with simple when it comes to my technology usage, maybe that’s why I like the simple life outside of work. Once my usage of Twitter matured I...
This post is the second in series on how I’ve automated augmenting my memory, the first post covered how I create a diary which is my most important and frequently referenced memory aid. This post covers how I automate the creation of my personal knowledge management archive. This archive has...
I’ve been thinking about innovation recently, how little I see of it at work, which seems strange because mine is a company that really does seem to value innovation. I’ve concluded that the reason is that we have attempted to combine a culture of innovation with a culture of visibility. ...
I’ve noticed recently how things come in waves, this last week has been all about the structural changes to work over the next 3-10 years. First up was a discussion with Stu about the changing mix of task, process, information and knowledge work. Then I started the next book in...
For two years now I’ve been unable to cycle more than a couple of miles, every time I got on my bike it hurt and even those few miles took a week to recover from. I’d tried about 12 physiotherapy sessions last year and while I made some progress an...
I spend a considerable time consuming information, in fact I probably spend more time reading, listening and watching work related content than I do any other activity in my day. Consuming for it’s own sake though isn’t very satisfying, I need a purpose in life and that purpose is enabled,...
As I’ve often said on this blog I only work a few hours a day, so what’s all this about ‘working all the time’ well I consider myself to have 3 main jobs in life. In no particular order these jobs are to earn a living, to live well and...