John Cleese on creativity
I must admit I never new much about John Cleese before watching this video other than he was in Monty Python and that he is very funny. I had no idea he was also so analytical or that he had a...
View ArticleIt takes a team to ship an idea
Ideas aren’t enough, it isn’t enough to think of something first: you need to implement and ship it to claim it. To implement and ship an idea requires more than one individual: it requires a team,...
View ArticleDon’t delay, start contributing today!
Mark humorously makes a very good point in this short talk at TED: don’t delay contributing! Your contribution may not be large or dramatic but you cannot predict the scale of the impact in peoples...
View ArticleWhy work doesn’t happen at work
This talk is by Jason Fried co-founder of 37 Signals talking at TED MidWest 2010 about the hurdles ofgetting work done in the average office. Jason makes some good points about how working in offices...
View ArticleSmall steps to big goals
Scott McIntyre recently wrote a post for Zen Habits on ‘The Small-Scale Approach to Achieving Great Things’, I found his post particularly interesting as I’ve observed a similar pattern over the years....
View ArticleHacking Work Manifesto
This is an interesting video manifesto from the guys at Hacking Work: working around cooperate processes and systems to achieve higher productivity. What stands out the most to me in this video is the...
View ArticleOn taking initiative
As an engineer it is easy to complain about things that don’t work as well as they could, especially when you first encounter the issue. However the difference between an average engineer and a truly...
View ArticleAn Invocation For Beginnings
Inspiring video about getting started by the comedian zeFrank. I watch this every few weeks as a pep talk to myself as he makes some excellent points about getting started and letting go of the fear of...
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Backing up Lightroom to Dropbox
I use Dropbox as an offsite backup to complement my Time Machine backups that I have on a pair of external hard drives, however backing up my entire Lightroom catalogue contents to dropbox is...
View ArticleWear sunscreen..
One of the instructors at the spin classes at the gym likes to play this song/advice by Baz Luhrmann at the end of sessions, so its now wedged in my brain. It seems like pretty good advice though!
View ArticleScott Hanselman on Productivity
Here is an excellent presentation given by Scott Hanselman on personal productivity and efficiency from Webstock 2012, I’d highly recommend watching all 42 minutes of it as he has many good tips. It’s...
View ArticleDeliberate learning
Sometimes its easy to forget that to keep developing a skill requires some deliberate action and planning. In our hectic lives it is easy to overlook and neglect our skill development. Often we don’t...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has recently had several mentions on some of the creativity and productivity blogs that I frequent. So I thought it was time to see what all the fuss was about and read his biography...
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Read this before our next meeting
Having worked in Electronic Arts which is a largish enterprise (about 10’000 people) for the last seven years I have had numerous bad meetings inflicted on me. So I picked up this book in the hopes of...
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Great by Choice
I read this book on a recommendation by one of my brothers, the book is an analysis of the 10x companies that have consistently preformed better than average over several decades. The authors have...
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The First 20 hours
I’m not a teacher but many in my family are educators and listening to them discuss the various theories of learning led me to want to know more. Then recently this book was discussed on the accidental...
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Manage your day
This book is a collection of essays from many different authors about how they work, their creative process and of course how they manage their days. Some of my favourite authors have contributed...
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