Susan Dominus, writing for the NYT Magazine, writes about the importance of team culture over policy. The focus of the article is to illustrate the point that even when companies tout flexibility through corporate policy, it can take time for team members to feel comfortable allowing their personal life to encroach upon the boundaries of their professional life. The article is a good one (part of an interesting series titled, “THE WORK ISSUE: REIMAGINING THE OFFICE”). Dominus states that making…
Notes and reference information have been a weak spot in my digital armour. Ulysses and Day One have filled the gap.
Another week, another article talking about Medium. I’m a sucker for this! This time, I have some positive things to say. Medium is testing some new options, allowing publishers to use the Medium platform in all its glory, plus with two new options to earn income. The options? Promoted posts and paid memberships. Now, promoted posts will be quite ad-like. Similar to a promotion in an RSS feed, the promoted post could be simply a longer, text based advertisement. Oh, there will be media involve…
Cal Newport suggests we get rid of email, but is this medium truly the problem? This knowledge worker prefers asynchronous options over the popular alternatives like Slack.
Some articles open with a whimper, some with a bang. This one is in the latter camp: > Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and here are the philosophers to prove it It’s an interesting read, where the author, Frank Furedi, is looking at the past in an attempt to address the concerns of the present. Concerns regarding attention, or the lack thereof. And he claims we’re not dealing with anything new, but with an issue that has been around for 300 years. > Those…
The recent changes to what Day One can do have enabled interesting use cases for me.
I’m currently 40,000 feet in the air as I write this. There’s nothing quite like 6 hours on a plane with no connectivity to allow one to meditate on and process the results of a 7 day team retreat. It also leads a long task list in one’s notebook! What I found myself meditating this time around was the people. How we’re all so varied, so unique, and yet with striking similarities repeated across a group of individuals. After spending 7 full days in the same house with 22 other people, I’ve real…
The fine folks at Help Scout asked that question [https://www.helpscout.net/blog/product-managers/]. And co-founder Nick Francis seems to indicate that the answer is yes. I quite enjoy the Help Scout blog, specifically the writing of Gregory Ciotti [https://twitter.com/GregoryCiotti]. But this particular piece didn’t sit well. It starts with a somewhat inflammatory opening statement. The one in big bold text: > To build a great product, you need design and you need engineering. Somewhere along…