The Yak Collective’s Writings
2021
July
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #8
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Summer Break
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- What is work?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Building a swarm of thoughts with the founders of Napkin
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Human Knot.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- CPORT task definition
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- What pattern are you stuck in? Are you happy with it?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- San Bruno Mountain
· Randy Lubin ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #7
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #6
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #4
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #5
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- World of Work-Craft
· Chris Butler ·
- How to quantify our focus with the founder of Rize
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- My little freedom day poll: results
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- One Tenth of a Second
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The rise of fake scientists
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- ‘Honest, guv’nor’ — how to use change management for evil
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Communal computing, part 2
· Chris Butler ·
- What does ‘freedom day’ mean to you?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Superhistory Redux
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Is there a perfect productivity system?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- This week I spoke at #leanagileUK on ‘five core practices’ for effective organisations
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Protected: Taking back control of our time with the co-founder of Hera
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Cybernetics is not the banana.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Teach your team by making learning look more like working
· Chris Butler ·
- what could the role of government and public services look like in the 21st Century and beyond?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Wouldn’t it be good if you could improve your changes of successful change?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Accidental Designs – 2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The willpower paradox: when confident self-talk becomes counterproductive
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Essential practices for organisation — talk on 13 July
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #3
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Building a knowledge garden with Kosmik
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The critical role of procurement in public value outcomes
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Ben Hunt on Industrially Necessary Paths & How To Live In The Now
· Paul Millerd ·
- Smarter IoT and Healthcare
· Phil Wolff ·
- Moving into turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The REALIST Stack
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- IDoT Tempos: Cadence, Lifecycles, and the Long Now
· Phil Wolff ·
- The power of names, part two— @antlerboy
· Benjamin Taylor ·
June
- The power of names, part 1 — why RedQuadrant?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Not-to-do list: a conscious way to break bad habits
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The psychology of revenge bedtime procrastination
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #Ask me anything!
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Accidental Designs – 1
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- An ode to slowness: the benefits of slowing down
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- In world of infinite overlapping possibility and multiple, irreconcilable differences, what does…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- What I learned from 100 intentional LinkedIn posts
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- spring-summer-2020
· Toby Shorin ·
- Building a healthier internet with Jeremy Hurst, co-founder of Idenati
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Making sense of systems change and systems leadership
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Links for June, 2021
· Ben Smith ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #2
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Communal computing, part 1
· Chris Butler ·
- The Ultimate Guide & Reasons To Take A Sabbatical
· Paul Millerd ·
- Seeking comments on my new Revue newsletter
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Perpetuated Beta
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Welcome to Ribbonfarm Studio
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- After Westphalia
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The Great Weirding
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The Clockless Clock
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Should we really focus on one thing at a time?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Negative capability: how to embrace intellectual uncertainty
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- A grid for better customer / citizen led transformation
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Upcoming Changes
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Procrastination triggers: eight reasons why you procrastinate
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What’s your mission? How are you bringing it into the world?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Praise Paradox: when well-intended words backfire
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Technical vs adaptive problems
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Maker Studio, Manager Studio
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The framing effect: how the way information is framed impacts our decisions
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Have you heard of the brown contract?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Money City Resources
· Randy Lubin ·
May
- Events coming up — please join me!
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Links for May, 2021
· Ben Smith ·
- Living With Problems
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- What do we want for the days after?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Hotkeys: how to customize your shortcuts in Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Which world do you live in?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Building an infinite canvas for your thoughts with Julia Pierce, Director at Scapple
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Decision fatigue: how a burden of choices leads to irrational trade-offs
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Complexity is not a paradigm shift
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Good People and Wicked Problems
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Come and sample the RedQuadrant tool shed — free show and tell on 10 June
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Why do they say my country doesn’t exist?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- How can you quickly assess how you are doing as a leader?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Exploring the power of mind mapping with Michael Hollauf, co-founder of Meister
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Ten principles for public service transformation
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- What sort of posts do you want from me?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Superhistory, Not Superintelligence
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The Seven Sins of Memory
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What would you most like to hear from me about my approaches on June 10?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Egocentric bias: why we feel like the main character in our own movie
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How do you help good work thrive in the world and increase impact?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Illusions and Collisions - 3
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Where do ideas come from, and who owns them?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Roam versus Notion: which one is best for you?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
April
- Being compassionate to ourselves turns out to be a powerful lever for change
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- What do you do when you’re stuck in the middle? How’s that working out for you?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Meaning Crisis Conspiracy
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Unbounded learning: how to unshackle your education
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Consider the oboe
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- My Five-Year Journey Creating, Launching, Failing & Succeeding With Online Courses
· Paul Millerd ·
- Learning through your ears with Yehoshua Zlotogorski, founder of Alpe Audio
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The universe is greebling.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Quality Improvement — consider dangerous?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Late-Style Thinking
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Digital Victories Podcast Episode
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Declinism: how rosy retrospection impacts decision-making
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Are you a taker, a giver, or a matcher?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- I’m hiring! Be at the heart of RedQuadrant
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Barnum Effect: why we love astrology and personality tests
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What idea changed the way you see the world?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Write things down and get them done with Amplenote
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- We are all consultants, advisers, coaches, change people — but only a select few enter the tool…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Illusions and Collisions - 2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Metaphors are both stages and cages for our thinking.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- #Recognition! It’s very nice, isn’t it?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- #14 Tylenol
· Sachin Benny ·
- Taste: why we like what we like
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How do you feel when you realise how much you took after your parents?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Welcome to the World of Tomorrow
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- 90 journaling prompts to spark new personal insights
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- the seven per cent rule
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Planning Is Not Mandatory
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Free your thoughts with the founders of Supernotes
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
March
- What I know about #systemsthinking
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Meatbody Effect
· Pamela Hobart ·
- The power of simplicity: how to manage our complexity bias
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Pristine shelfware to working in the swamps
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Digital Homelessness
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Eat the Cheese Plate
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Would It Be Good For You To “Think Less” ?
· Pamela Hobart ·
- What do you reach for to get a quick overview of an organisation’s structure and key data?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Serious(ish) Games: Hindsight 2030
· Randy Lubin ·
- Notes on an Open Scraping Database
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Tasshin Interviews Ben on Strategy
· Ben Mosior ·
- Musturbation: the irrational demand for perfection
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Do systems exist?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The three types of burnout
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- There are multiple ways of looking at organisations.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Illusions and Collisions – 1
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Most customer service performance measures are worse than doing nothing
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Serious Games: Future of Money (run at Mozfest)
· Randy Lubin ·
- Accidental Meaning: Why The American Dream No Longer Works
· Paul Millerd ·
- Moving to Tuesdays…
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Three tribes are contesting for the #futureofwork. Which one will you join?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Have you progressed in your career?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The mindful productivity audit: 10 questions to improve your well-being at work
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What would you do to improve this organisation?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Links for 3/13/2021
· Ben Smith ·
- Demiurgical Businesses
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Building the world’s most customizable workspace with Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The fallacy of “what gets measured gets managed”
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- We would all like a ‘neat and compleat’ way of making sense of the world, of leading, consulting…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- When to use pages, tags, or attributes in Roam Research?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What does ‘service transformation’ look like? A challenge for you!
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Foresight Workshop: Games + Creative Writing
· Randy Lubin ·
- How I Think About Money & Retirement While Self Employment
· Paul Millerd ·
- How Obsession With Work Killed Our Connection With Leisure
· Paul Millerd ·
- The Inevitable Decline Of The Elite Full-Time MBA
· Paul Millerd ·
- The Battle For The Soul Of The Creator Economy
· Paul Millerd ·
- Late Sceneification
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Anxious for no apparent reason? It may be time to press “reset”
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Are you learning as effectively as a dolphin?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The educational and economic necessity of lifelong learning
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- New Normal
· Benjamin Taylor ·
February
- Links for 2/21/21
· Ben Smith ·
- Shadowland -2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The problem with work-life balance
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What are your fundamental needs at work? And are they being met?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Donald A Schön at Iowa State University (Talk Transcript)
· Ben Mosior ·
- The Semmelweis Reflex: when current beliefs trump new knowledge
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The worst projects I’ve ever been on have been doomed to succeed
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- #13 Space Travel as Hot Media
· Sachin Benny ·
- Reimagining the Research Lab
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Story Synth’s Games Gallery
· Randy Lubin ·
- Mars and the Meaning of Money
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Do public ‘services’ make things worse? Does help actually help?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The ambidextrous mindset: how to balance exploration and exploitation
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What would happen if you said what you really thought?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Nootropics, adaptogens, brain foods… What the heck is going on?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Shadowland - 1
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The Diderot Effect: why we buy things we don’t need
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What topics should I dig into in more depth?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- 9 useful templates for Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What would you most like me to write about on LinkedIn?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Sophrosyne: the art of mindful moderation
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Prerendering Vue for Story Synth Unfurls
· Randy Lubin ·
- Tick-Tock Talk – 2:
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Navigating the mind: 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What’s wrong the way we use organisational measures?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The benefits of stretching: why your body needs to move
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- This intriguing image contains two possibilities for organisations, and the people who spend their…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Nirvana fallacy: when perfectionism leads to unrealistic solutions
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
January
- Serious Game: Imagining Health Futures
· Randy Lubin ·
- Weird Moneys
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Why do we need to be right?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- This is very true, and has generated some quite good comments on LinkedIn (where this blog is…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Why is a bridge and water such a good explanation of how people go wrong with business…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Daniel Vassallo – The Self-Employment Meta Game (Podcast)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Jootsing: the art of jumping out of the system
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What would you say if I told you customer intimacy was dangerous?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Behind the scenes: how to start a website as an online creator
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Coming Era of Tokenized Essays
· Tom Critchlow ·
- The Consultant Out of Time
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Anti-Network Effects
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Conversations Don’t Transform You, Life Does
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Overview of Story Synth, my web platform for storytelling games
· Randy Lubin ·
- Don’t Look on the Bright Side
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The great big sh*t-shovelling machine
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Overcoming learned helplessness
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Have you heard of ‘commissioning’? Here’s why it’s important in all our lives
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Sneaky Subjunctive
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Emotional fitness and leadership with Dr. Emily Anhalt
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What I learned in Ali Abdaal’s YouTube Course
· Paul Millerd ·
- Folk Festivals of the Internet People
· Vinay Débrou ·
- Involvement Music
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- From note-taking to note-making
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How can we change the world? Exactly — join us and we’ll see!
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Why can’t I write code inside my browser?
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Creating habits: how long does it take to form a habit?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- There are only seven ways to make savings and improvements in service organisations
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Playing around with the Web Monetization Protocol
· Randy Lubin ·
- There are two fundamental outlooks on life
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Are you a naive enthusiast, an oversimplifying populariser, a gooroo, or a curmudgeon?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- How often do things go wrong because of lack of clarity?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Campaign Against Consultancy — do you want to join?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- There are five core things which, if you make them your practice, are likely to lead to…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Local public services in the UK face a ‘perfect’ storm — we need Adaptive Councils
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- ‘the chick does not break the egg out of hatred for the shell — it does so out of a desire to walk…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- We’re all trying to make sense of things — in our own way and from where we are
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- A practical approach to making decisions in complexity
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- ‘How the heck do I make decisions in this chaos?’
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- You should never publish your values or behaviours if you want culture change
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- I sabotaged the plan, and it was one of the best things I’ve done
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Who wants to become an organisational Jedi?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Are you playing the real human game, or are you being seduced by the Dark Side of The Force?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Are you fit for your job? Are you stretched?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Organisational Jedi Knights have to confront themselves with love
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Are you trapped in a tractor beam of The Force?
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Force in organisational life: how dominant/other cultural patterns create system fragility…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The Dark Side of human responses — The Force in organisation, part VI
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- 5 thinking tools to add to your metacognitive toolbox
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- 150+ Things Worth Reading & Listening To From 2020
· Paul Millerd ·
- Selfies in Vaporworlds
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Annual Review 2020
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Alert: Breaking Smart Billing Problem
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Scaling down: on seeking fewer goals, relationships, and experiences
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- That’s a wrap.
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The butterfly effect: the impact of deterministic chaos on our lives
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Positive AI Economic Futures Workshop
· Randy Lubin ·
- How to use templates in Roam Research [[roam/templates]]
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Don’t Follow Your Passion, Work In The Corporate World First
· Paul Millerd ·
- Tick-Tock Talk - 1
· Venkatesh Rao ·
2020
December
- 2020 Recap
· Randy Lubin ·
- The Magic of Non-Doing
· Paul Millerd ·
- Complete 2020 Roundup
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Amy McMillen – Leaving a Path That Makes Sense (Podcast)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Oshan Jarow: The Reality & Possibilities For Work
· Paul Millerd ·
- Steph Smith – Carving a 21st Century Career & Life (Podcast)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Packy McCormick – Making Newsletters Fun (Podcast)
· Paul Millerd ·
- 35th
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Darker Things
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Don’t “Clarify” Your Values
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Filtered for… margin notes
· Tom Critchlow ·
- 2020 year in review: chaos and community
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Activation energy: the chemistry of getting started
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Why Did People Stop Caring About Developing a Meaningful Philosophy of Life in the 1970s?
· Paul Millerd ·
- Holiday gift guide for the curious minds
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Meaning in Life is Not Propositional
· Pamela Hobart ·
- In the Wake of the Eighties
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Timebox Your Existential Issues
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Curiosity and consistency: thoughts on growing a newsletter
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Everyday Process of Burnout Recovery
· Ben Mosior ·
- Weak Ties & Strong Intros
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Selective ignorance: cultivating intentional knowledge in a chaotic world
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Second-Best Solutions
· Pamela Hobart ·
- The difference between efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- An Ode To Travel and What It Means (Video)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Involvement Capitalism
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Meaning Making Machines (Jennifer Carlston)
· Ben Mosior ·
- The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How workers became career-driven performers
· Paul Millerd ·
- JavaScript plugins for Roam Research [[roam/js]]
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- High-leverage activities: how to identify your energy multipliers
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
November
- A Letter to Arnold
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Textual maps and the future of text
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Productivity and permaculture with Marie Poulin
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Inductive versus deductive reasoning: how to make stronger arguments
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The ultimate guide to becoming a digital nomad or remote worker
· Paul Millerd ·
- How to upload and play audio files in Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Lethologica: what happens when a word is on the tip of the tongue
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Memory bias: how selective recall can impact your memories
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Stupid Problems, Stupid Solutions
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Exaggeration: why we make a mountain out of a molehill
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- 6 Years on the Road
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Maslow’s Imaginary Pyramid: Who really invented the pyramid?
· Paul Millerd ·
- Interview: Building an anti-regret machine with Tyler Bryden
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Questioning Therapy’s Perpetual Present
· Pamela Hobart ·
- How to take notes while reading a book
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Personal values: how knowing yourself can guide your actions
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Interview: Using books to navigate life with Juvoni Beckford
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
October
- Painfully Tiny Goals
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Anticipatory Awareness and the Election
· Ben Mosior ·
- #52: A year and change
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Hindsight bias: the knew-it-all-along phenomenon
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Essential Digital Nomad Electronic, Sleep, Fitness & Travel Gear (October 2020)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Aspiration, Meaning, & The Traps of Ambition (A Book Review of Agnes Callard’s Aspiration)
· Paul Millerd ·
- Interview: Collective intelligence with Alexandra Elbakyan
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The state of personal knowledge management
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #51: The sensible approach
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The hermeneutic circle: a key to critical reading
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Jumping to conclusions: the inference-observation confusion
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Principles vs Context: It’s Not About Choice
· Ben Mosior ·
- Is Productivity an Ethical Issue?
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Hitting Pause
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- A letter to the future from some little time after 2020
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- #50: Leaving money on the table
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Connected Papers: a visual tool for academic research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Hustle Traps: Ten Guaranteed Paths To Burnout For The Self-Employed Creator
· Paul Millerd ·
- Survivorship bias: when failure gets forgotten
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Time is not a measure of productivity
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Notes on Textual Capital
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- How to De-Instrumentalize Time
· Pamela Hobart ·
- How to practice nuanced thinking
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #49: The work of uncertainty
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Most organisations are zombies.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The collective brain: where does innovation come from?
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The best CSS themes for Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Tunnelhead
· Venkatesh Rao ·
September
- #48: How to design remote work
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Semantic traps: why vague words are risky
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How to build diagrams in Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Existential Sandwich
· Pamela Hobart ·
- The power of flexible consistency
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Mid-2020 Update
· Randy Lubin ·
- Fifth-Generation Management
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Negativity bias: how negative experiences cloud our judgement
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #47: Industrial unpredictability
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Control Failure – 2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Nothing is “Beyond” Self-Improvement
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Podcasts with Offline Rocks & Hundreds of Ways
· Tom Critchlow ·
- How to think better
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #46: Removing buildup
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The science of deliberate practice
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How to set up your own digital garden
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Further thoughts about GoodReads & the web books ecosystem
· Tom Critchlow ·
- A Bad Prequel
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Lockdown in NYC made me want to kill myself, so I had to leave
· Pamela Hobart ·
- The two sides of stress: distress and eustress
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #45: Civilization is weightless
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The only numbers that matter
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Pressure and procrastination
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- This is part 11 of my series on The Force in organisational life. The rest can be accessed here:
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Irreducible complexity: The Force in organisational life
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- ‘wolves change rivers’ links
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Not 100# to your point, but this is a good nuanced take on ‘30-50 wild hogs’ and failures of…
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Post-Covid Circularity
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- #44: The long view
· Vaughn Tan ·
August
- Spaceship You: How To Understand Who You Are as a Remote Worker
· Paul Millerd ·
- No newsletter this week
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The Force in organisational life — the story so far
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- The empathy gap: why we underestimate the influence of emotions
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #43: A new market of ideas
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Structured distraction: how to make the most of your breaks at work
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Idea evaluation: the other side of the creativity coin
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The State of (Business) Play
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- From productivity porn to mindful productivity
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The planning fallacy: why we underestimate how long a task will take
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #42: Room for discovery
· Vaughn Tan ·
- How to choose the right note-taking app
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Filtered for… inquiry vs insight
· Tom Critchlow ·
- The Contrary Consultant
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Control Failure – 1
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #41: Surrendering control
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The mindful productivity guide to intermittent fasting
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- - Here’s the complete set of articles on The Force in organisational life, so far.
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- What makes a good “hire me” page?
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Constructive criticism: how to give and receive feedback
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Descent of the Public
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Generating an alumni network for indies
· Tom Critchlow ·
- #40: Trials and tribulations
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Organisational Jedi Knights have to confront themselves with love
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- How to take a replenishing vacation (or staycation)
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The rational benefits of emotions
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
July
- Operating in Time - 2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- re: More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
· Tom Critchlow ·
- #39: Remove the plow and hive
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Ten Heuristics for Bad Times
· Ben Mosior ·
- Thinking Out Loud: Year One
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Updates to Quotebacks
· Tom Critchlow ·
- How to evaluate the validity and reliability of your mental models
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Debora, please see the twitter thread started by Sonja Blignaut posting this: https://twitter.com/so
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Some notes on Thinking in Public
· Tom Critchlow ·
- The Indie Consulting Business Model Canvas V0.1
· Tom Critchlow ·
- #38: Agathonicity
· Vaughn Tan ·
- GPT-3 and the future of human productivity
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Temporal discounting: the battle between present and future self
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The best advice on working remotely your boss doesn’t want you to see
· Paul Millerd ·
- Operating in Time
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- From closed mind to open mind
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Opening up in Open Spaces
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
· Toby Shorin ·
- #37: Open space
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The Dunning–Kruger effect: you don’t know what you don’t know
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Investing into the unknown with Lawrence Yeo
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- re: garden of forking memes
· Toby Shorin ·
- The Next Experiments in Elitism
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Managing risk with the NASA Risk Matrix
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #36: Ready for the unexpected
· Vaughn Tan ·
- The Force in organisational life and becoming a Jedi — The Beginning
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Setting up a Discord Room for my Blog
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Fail like a scientist
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Internet Writer Workflows
· Shreeda Segan ·
- After Westphalia: Introduction
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- 50 lessons I learned from writing 50 newsletters
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Inner child and inner critic: a battle for creativity
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Quotebacks for Firefox is here!
· Tom Critchlow ·
- #35: Patterning, herding, programming
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Quote the web with Quotebacks
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
June
- Creative challenges with Alyssa X
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Indoors in Time
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Can Calendly Unbundle NYC?
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Creating calm: how to manage stress
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #34: The difficulties of not-knowing
· Vaughn Tan ·
- From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Navigating Power & Status
· Tom Critchlow ·
- The power of the weekly review
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Big Moods, Little Moods
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- The art and science of mind wandering
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #33: Preference uncertainty
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Browser extensions for Roam Research
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- From mental map to mental atlas
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- I just turned on “paid” subscriptions…
· Shreeda Segan ·
- A New Old Pattern Language
· Shreeda Segan ·
- Towards a Blogger Peer Review
· Toby Shorin ·
- Farcaster Mansions
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Only Requisite Agility can save us now
· Benjamin Taylor ·
- Introduction to Experimenting Generalism
· Vinay Débrou ·
- As we may die
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #32: Missing the point
· Vaughn Tan ·
- disaster!
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Exploring ScrollToTextFragment
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Sorry, change of office hours!
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Introducing: Quotebacks
· Tom Critchlow ·
- Questions for Smart People #11
· Pamela Hobart ·
- Into the Weirding – Part 2
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Roam themes: how to style Roam Research with custom CSS
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Do you work on your happiness?
· Pamela Hobart ·
- #31: Alternative sociality
· Vaughn Tan ·
- Mental wealth: managing you mental health budget
· Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
May
- Questions for Smart People #10 · Pamela Hobart ·
- From Story to Setting
· Venkatesh Rao ·
- Productive cognitive load: make the most of your working memory · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Managing Millennials & Other Misinformation On Generations at Work · Paul Millerd ·
- Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to modern knowledge graphs · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Sparring & Tenure for Indie Consultants
· Tom Critchlow ·
- #30: Fear of failure · Vaughn Tan ·
- Filtered for… writing inside organizations · Tom Critchlow ·
- Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory · Paul Millerd ·
- How to build a support group · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Questions for Smart People #9 · Pamela Hobart ·
- Questions About The Future Of Work · Paul Millerd ·
- Into the Weirding – Part 1 · Venkatesh Rao ·
- Collectors to Creators Meetup Notes · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Filtered for… the design of virtual spaces · Tom Critchlow ·
- Have you figured out how you make choices? · Pamela Hobart ·
- The anatomy of a perfect educational article · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- #29: Ambient uncertainty, Part 3 · Vaughn Tan ·
- The Goldilocks Principle of Stress and Anxiety · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Filtered for… Play · Tom Critchlow ·
- Matt Mullenweg’s & Automattic’s Five Levels Of Remote Work · Paul Millerd ·
- A Good Looking Tiddly Theme for Digital Gardens · Tom Critchlow ·
- Mindful productivity and neuroscience · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Questions for Smart People #8 · Pamela Hobart ·
- A little gift · Venkatesh Rao ·
- Connectedness and complex systems with Dr John L. Collins · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- What’s your worldview? + office hours right now · Pamela Hobart ·
- #28: Ambient uncertainty, Part 2 · Vaughn Tan ·
- Dr John L. Collins Biography · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- How to take smart notes · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- First Annual Report · Pamela Hobart ·
- Who am I, and what do I want? @antlerboy reflects · Benjamin Taylor ·
- Writing as a thinking tool · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Questions for Smart People #7 · Pamela Hobart ·
- The Medieval Future of Management · Venkatesh Rao ·
- Reinvent: From getting ahead to coming alive in May · Paul Millerd ·
- Learning to let go · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- Should you make a “unique” contribution to the world? · Pamela Hobart ·
- #27: Ambient uncertainty, Part 1 · Vaughn Tan ·
- Confirmation bias: believing what you see, seeing what you believe · Anne-Laure Le Cunff ·
- The Challenges of Remote Consulting · Tom Critchlow ·
- Hamsternomics: Are We All Just Happy Hamsters? · Paul Millerd ·
- Complex Problems vs Small Teams of Indie-Professionals · Vinay Débrou ·
- Questions for Smart People #6 · Pamela Hobart ·
- Reimagining Publics · Venkatesh Rao ·
- Why you need spoopy consulting and how to do it · Benjamin Taylor ·
April