The worst way to start my day is staring at blank page. Let me explain. After a productive day, it is very rewarding to shut down my workspace with a sense of accomplishment. I often recap what I did and make a point to savor the progress. And then I realized this is the worst … Read more

Listening to a podcast talk about how we are conditioned to pick up our phone too often, I had an idea to try with the apps on my phone; or iPhone, in my case. The experiment consisted on moving the apps that ‘pull me in’ (i.e. the apps that ‘use me’) to a second, less … Read more

It is great to measure, and a lot of my consulting time was devoted to implement ways to measure things. Soft things, like innovation and value. All these measures are good, and at the same time I must remind myself and my clients that these measurements are proxies, pointers, guidance. Not the real thing. – … Read more

There is a charming term used in natural language processing called ‘perplexity’. It measures the strength of the prediction made by a model. It is related to the average number of branches offered at certain point. When there are a lot of choices offered, all of them with similar ‘weight’, the more perplexing it is … Read more

With this post I publish the first raw demo of Fluid Kanban. (This is the idea I decided to move forward with after some market research.) The reason for these demos is to share early and learn quick. “Invest in Failure” I heard once. That makes a lot of sense, but I have to confess … Read more

I recently opened an MS Outlook email and paid close attention. The surface of visible options available to me was staggering. I list them below; from big buttons to smaller buttons (before any unfolding of menus or options.) If you are an MS Outlook user, how many do you use in one day? One week? … Read more

In a 2018 interview in the American television program “60 Minutes” the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney said: “…it is embarrassing I do not read music or write music … I do not see music like that … I do not see music as dots on a page, is something in my head that goes on…” (He … Read more

The gist of it I invested in the hardcopy of this book some years ago. It is one of the few books in our library that has highlights both from myself and from my wife. Back then, I was drawn to this book because of the subtitle “The disciplined pursuit of less.” – Oh, yeah. … Read more

29 years ago “Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we invest this energy.” Flow: The psychology of optimal experience, 1990 – Mihaly Csikszentmihaly 9 months ago “Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management.“ NY … Read more

It seems to me that for us, digital worker types, there are two different ways to invest our attention while working: (1) Keeping on top of things (2) Creating and solving. Both modes are needed, and both modes drain our limited daily attention budget. How much attention we will spend in each mode will depend … Read more