How the work really gets done
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How the work really gets done
The Creative Pragmatist Approach: I know there will never be an ideal time to begin so I set aside time to get started on one part of the process. When I get to that time, regardless of whether I feel like doing the work or whether it seems like the most urgent priority at the moment, I get started on what I can do now. At the end of that initial s
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My writing process, in a nutshell:
- Stumble upon a sentence in the wild or get invited to speak— the spark.
- Create a Sublime collection around that idea (here is my private collection).
- Collect things obliquely related to that idea.
- Visualize the chaos in Sublime Canvas to tidy the mental clutter (it takes one click to convert a collection into a Canvas
The most differentiating business skill of the 21st century
If your job is making good decisions (which for most of you it is), thinking about work is work.
It might feel like time spent staring at a blank page without knowing what to write is not productive. It might feel like getting up from the laptop and taking a walk is procrastinating. But those are all parts of the proces... See more
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