A fun, quick way to realize how big the ocean is.
Category: Notes
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JP Rangaswami: Information is food
Rangaswami makes some fun analogies between food and information consumption and suggests that we need to watch our consumption of both to stay healthy. -
John Kay – Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly
“Obliquity is the idea that when we are pursuing very complex objectives, we very often approaches these objective indirectly, obliquely,” Kay comments. He produces several examples of how greatness has been accomplished obliquely.
John Kay – Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly
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Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? – Jac de Haan
A quick, animated, explanation of common business behavior using Hotelling’s Law to describe businesses clump together instead of spreading out.
Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? – Jac de Haan
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Jason Fried: Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
Fried talks about how unproductive employees are at the office. Employers are frequently trying to cram everyone into small spaces to do work (where they are frequently distracted) when, instead, they should be pushing people to go to their most productive place (where they can control the distractions). He suggests that we set aside “no talking time” in which employees do not engage one another (especially managers engaging employees), using passive communication tools (e.g. email, instant messaging) which allow the sender and respondent to communicate when it is most convenient to them and cancelling meeting that do not need to happen (or reducing the number of people tied up in those meetings).