Work is learning. Learning is the work. Without AI.
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.
@tom_peters – “Want someone to think you are brilliant? Have a 10 minute conversation and let them do all the talking.”
@rogerschank – Reading is no way to learn
When you have someone to ask, you ask. Reading is what you do when you have no one to ask.
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@willrich45 – Engagement: “Not a metric for learning. A prerequisite.”
@trishgreenhalgh – “2nd big message on NHS [National Health Service] IT [information technology]:”ruthless standardisation” held back progress. We need local innovation, customisation, ad hoc solutions if needed“
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“Structure drives behaviour. And most of the structures organizations have today were designed for yesterday. – @SamiHonkinen” – via @hharjula
“Complexity should be in the work, not in the organizational structure“, according to @JosdeBlok in this video (9 minutes)
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