Stream of Consciousness
A strange question Okay, I admit, that may be a rather strange question. But think about it for a second ... do you have other projects than professional ones? Yes, I know you have your family and friends, but do you have objectives, very specific aims you want to achieve with
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Much respect to Brett Terpstra for opening up about his past in this extremely personal post. I've never struggled with substance abuse myself, but I was a very, very heavy smoker from 1988 until late 2007. I'm defining heavy smoker as ranging from one pack to
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Reading The Cramped Lately, there's been a movement towards more tactile writing experiences, especially those writing experiences involving pen and paper. Excellent sites like The Cramped show people who are perhaps not aware of the beauty and the advantages of writing with a (fountain) pen on paper just
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Failing to bring home the goods I believe most of us have been in a situation such as the following: we send out a young staff member on an interview, most often one of their first, only to have them come back with less than the information we expected them
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Working on efficiency We've been working a lot on efficiency aspects lately, so I got to thinking about the boundaries of efficiency quite a lot in recent days and weeks. Efficiency is very important, especially in a public sector environment. We are using taxpayers' money, so it
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Development aid is not about punishing people. Not our own people, not our beneficiaries. It should never be about guilt, or about a debt owed. It should be about using our intelligence, our creativity, to make the world more inclusive. It should never be about the typical Catholic rap of:
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Turtles all the way There's this story I must have read in one of Terry Pratchett's wonderful diskworld novels. In a conference open to the public, a scientist is approached by an older lady. She contests the round world hypothesis and points out that the world
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Examining my dictionary What is a manager? My dictionary states that a manager is: "a person responsible for controlling or administering an organization or group of staff" But there is an implicit assumption here, which is the following: that an organization or a group of staff need managing.
Getting Things Done
The short of it At a certain point, you need to make a lead of faith and start trusting your GTD system. If you do not do that, you will not be able to test its real relevance to you. The Last Crusade There is this great Indiana Jones movie.
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I'm not one to lightly put advertisements or suggestions for support on my blog. I avoid that because it makes our relationship different. I want to produce interesting, relevant, good content which I hope you can enjoy. However, this one is a little different. I know a few
opinion
I just discovered this article by Garrett Gitchell on his Horizontal Change blog. It mentions an article I've written a while back and provides a set of highly relevant comments in reaction. The site provides good, concise and wonderfully opinionated (I should recognize opinionated when I see it,
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A reflection Just a little something to make you reflect a bit in these days after New Year, when all intentions are fresh and new and never to be broken. What if the real purpose of your life is not to fulfill your destiny but rather to discover it first,