On building of All Trades
Generalists are force multipliers.
Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest...The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest.
Sari Azout • things worth sharing this week
Makers are here to discover something new, to bravely explore. They crave being first to uncover some way to make technology do a thing that nobody else had seen before. Makers become increasingly more disinterested with a particular technology as it matures and becomes polished. Polish and reliability mean that the tech has become mainstream—and... See more
Dimitri Glazkov • We Are Entering a Maker Renaissance
the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years, because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
Superhuman
There’s a lot of emotional overheard that comes with building a company whose essence is hard to put into words.
sari azout • 2023 End of Year Letter
The actual measures of productivity that might be useful range quite a bit:
- I did enough to not get fired.
- I did enough to get promoted.
- I did enough to get hired by a better firm.
- I solved a problem for a customer who was frustrated.
- I changed the system and now my peers are far more productive.
- I invented something that creates new possibilities and
PW 5: Measuring the right thing
“If done well, from a perspective of making everyone feel safe to share, to give themselves permission to fail or to not be perfect, virtual can potentially even nudge out face-to-face
Joshua Davies of Knowmium makes workshops feel like augmented reality with mmhmm
“Self-management requires an interlocking set of structures and practices.”
