Are you managing your to do list or is it managing you?
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My two favorite Jobs quotes:… Read More
We’re all busy. For me, a small and rapidly expanding business takes up most of my time. It’s both exciting and exhausting. For you it might be the same or it might be a demanding position with a more traditional employment agreement. It doesn’t matter. My epiphany this weekend was that it is NOT only… Read More
Learning is hard. It takes time, effort, and engagement. It’s the payoff that keeps us going. Unfortunately, like exercise or dieting, in many cases learning has been institutionalized as drudgery. What’s worse is that for those of us over 35 or 40 we learned how to learn in a way that took all the fun… Read More
Image by Gare and Kitty via Flickr Ever seem to bump into a phrase repeatedly? For the past three years I keep hearing about “the edge becoming the middle” and every time I do it’s in a new context, with a similar yet different meaning. The first time I heard this phrase was in a… Read More
Kent Anderson reviewed Jaron Lanier's book over on the Scholarly Kitchen: I started Jaron Lanier’s recent book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” skeptical of his initial opinions. His complaints about standardization and today’s limiting philosophy of information technology didn’t impress me at first — after all, we had to embrace standards around electricity, electromagnetic spectrum… Read More
My husband recently pointed me to an interview with Rory Sutherland and the following video of his TED Talk. Similar to Predictably Irrational and Nudge, Sutherland's view is that people don't make decisions on pure economic value alone. Intangible value plays a large role, although many are loathe to admit it. "There is a basic… Read More
Through the years I’ve been fortunate to meet lots of smart people in publishing, media, and technology. It’s been an amazing experience working with both organizations “going digital” and others that have been there for some time but are continuously refining their approach to content and publishing. It’s an exciting place to be (scary, but… Read More