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Who Are You?

I’m going to answer the questions here publicly because I think it is important to declare your intentions. I am writing this blog now in large part as a record, to be honest and open, and then in a few years time I can look back over all the things I believed...

Compliance

The more compliant you are, the more useless you are. You will be replaced by someone cheaper, because there is always someone cheaper. Instead of complaining that your compliant jobs are going to India or China or wherever, go and do something extraordinary and be...

Doing Work vs. Being Effective

People get this idea in their head that if they put work into something that it becomes valuable. This isn’t always the case. You could put hours into paperwork and still not have created anything. Even when my workplace required certain paperwork to be done, I...

Ghosting: Removing people from your digital life

“Ghosting people (deleting them from their digital lives) is certainly easier than a confrontation. But the person on the receiving end of the ghosting, it’s like there is a death. They are suddenly shunned, there’s panic, they call out, they are...

Efficient is not the same as Effective

When you are efficient, you work faster. This is what many modern companies seem to be asking of their workers, and the early 2000s’ drive for maximum productivity has left people working too hard for no good reason. Being effective is far more important than...