I asked Curt to read my latest half-finished draft for More Space and give me some feedback. He read it and said what he thought, which was a mixture of stuff he liked and quite a few things he didn’t. There’s no substitute for constructive criticism, and it made me hack away at it, stripping out some chunks and adding a few others. Then I left it alone for four days. Now it looks much better.
So thanks, Curt. Now, I’m trying to psych myself up for another push of the peanut.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Rob Poynton emailed me this little video from basset.tv. In it Dr. Deborah Gordon explains her theories behind ant swarms and how swarm intelligence is manifested in formic communities. We
Rob has a thoroughly thought-provoking post about mushrooming healthcare costs. I think Rob finds quests for “efficiency” as suspicious as I do.
Independent Online Edition > Body Shop value slumps after sale to L’Oreal Interesting example of how the public has become a highly critical diffiicult to convince audiene (tags: marketing opensourcemarketing)
I quite often hear people calling for more more action and less talk. Strangely, they have never done so in mime.
