I still haven’t edited Show Your Work, the podcast I’m making with Jane Bozarth. It’s not because I don’t want to. I do. I know what needs doing, and it isn’t particularly complicated. But other things have taken priority, and the editing keeps slipping down the list. I’ve spent years talking about the gap between… Read More Action gaps
The joy of delivering the same content isn’t the fact that it’s the same, but that each cohort or group responds differently to it. Remember that when you want to tinker with what you deliver. 1000 micro adjustments might make zero difference.
Back in 2018 I wrote a blog called Shopkeeper to Engineer. I’d been using the phrase for a few years before that, trying to describe the difference between supplying learning and understanding how performance works. My Dad was a shopkeeper, so it wasn’t intended as an insult. He ran a local shop, supplied what people… Read More Still shopkeeping?
I heard a term from Dr David Love at the Autumn Forum that I rather liked. Faux work. It’s used to describe people using AI to correspond with each other, producing emails, reports and responses that give the appearance of work without necessarily achieving very much. Then I read a piece last week by Alf… Read More Meat Proxy, Faux Work
Meg Peppin tagged me in a post a couple of weeks ago asking if I was still blogging. She’d noticed that a few people whose writing she liked seemed to have vanished from LinkedIn and wondered where we’d all gone. I haven’t gone anywhere. I publish on my website every day and on LinkedIn on… Read More Where did everyone go?