Craft
Doing things; Doing things well
Craft
Managerial Technology focuses on decisions as the output. For example, I build a report with a KPI that shows the yield of how I am turning raw materials into finished goods. I want to hit my target KPI based on my engineering standards.
This has been a primary focus of analytics and business intelligence for the past... See more
logistics > strategy
operations > management
doing > thinking
Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom.
phokarlssonx.com
Interesting analogy for creating conditions for 10x work:
Limit drag. Reduce interruptions by working in extended periods of focus work.
Maximize thrust. Fill focus time with primarily long-duration tasks.
The reasoning is that the work that is highest impact typically takes a lot of reasoning / requires a lot of implementation detail. Minimizing distractions while doing such work allows you to do more of such work. You get marginally better at doing such work over time.
It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
TracingWoodgrainstwitter.comWell written thread on discipline / tenacity / sticktoitiveness
Don't Fall Into the Trap of Taking the Wrong Lessons from Others' Success
Sarah Tavelopen.substack.com
Many such cases
You can always move faster
Practice makes [you] perfect…
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