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Eric Steven Raymond • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Productivity comes first from character, not techniques.
Matthew Aaron Perman • What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Entitled “As We May Think,” it outlined a vast storage system called a “memex,” where documents would be connected, and could be recalled, by information breadcrumbs called “trails of association.”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The meeting in Michigan laid the groundwork for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored computer network that would eventually expand into the modern Internet and, finally, into the utility-computing grid.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
Once each month, managers meet with their reports to discuss individual goals. The system has built-in, 360-degree feedback, with both parties comparing notes on a regular basis.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
