Work is learning. Learning is the work.
Friday’s finds on social media
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“To change with change is the changeless state. – Bruce Lee” via @janhoglund
Nick Milton: “Internal competition is like a late frost that kills all your green shoots”
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
Innovation vs. (social) copying [without innovators to copy, none of us can learn socially]
Another attribute of the most successful strategies is that they are parasitic. This is the essence of social learning – somebody has to do the hard graft to find out how to do things before other people can copy them, so it only pays to learn socially when there are some innovators around. Indeed, in contests where (the winning) agents were able to invade the entire population, they actually ended up with a lower average pay-off than they did in contests where the conditions allowed some agents with more innovative strategies to survive, so providing new behaviours to copy – New Scientist
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
Buzzfeed – Anecdoche (n): “A conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening.” – via @lombardi_gloria
@JesseLynStoner – “Cooperation, like respect, is often assumed. And in reality, ignored.”
@AllisonEck – The best teams act like musicians
[Almost] Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
Manage your time like Google invests its resources: 70/20/10 via @reuvengorsht
Designers: 70% on the visual specs for upcoming features, 20% exploring new features, and 10% on wireframes for entirely new concepts/styles.
Engineers: 70% building features and fixing bugs, 20% on prototyping fledgling ideas or exploratory data analysis, and 10% on speculative initiatives like a 10x performance improvement.
Sales: 70% on closing deals, 20% on bigger I/Os for the next quarter, and 10% on long-term relationships with agencies and big advertisers.
Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@EskoKilpi – “The Internet is the first communication environment that decentralises the financial capital requirements of production”
@goonth – “The web hasn’t been democratized, contrary to popular belief. But it is definitely heading in that direction, albeit with quite a fight.”
@skinny – “There is no authority without responsibility. There is no responsibility without authority.”
Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@ericgarland – “Humility is often painful, but arrogance is always fatal.”
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.” – Zadie Smith – via @ShaunCoffey
Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@johnrobb – “If you don’t own bots, bots will own you. Bots (software and hardware) are the capital & labor of the future in one package.”
@goonth – “If people don’t know how to communicate, relate and interact, then tools are just tools. Businesses & markets depend on human competencies.”
@Nynetjer-Maat-AtenRa – “If I plant seeds in the earth and get vegetables, did I create those veggies or the earth?“
Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@EskoKilpi – “Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution were about sharing new ideas within networks of people”
@RDBinns – “The RSS reader is an antidote to the algorithmic feed of facebook, the impossible tide of twitter, and news site editorial filters.”
@IndyJohar – “We are busy maintaining 17th C enlightenment notions of freedom in world where we have become slaves to the asymmetric power of networks“
Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
The idea is blindingly simple, actually. Every so often, you’ll run into someone with beans who has, for no good reason, decided to put them up their own nose. Way up there. In a place where beans should not go.
Now, there is no logical explanation for this. There is no way to say, “Yes, I can see exactly why you’d want to do that.” They came to this decision all on their own. The way they got to this decision defies logic.
Yet, here they are. Waiting for the moment when the bean goes up the nose.