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Express - Test - Cycle

A rapid design approach based on doing the minimum you can to create a testable prototype fast. Testing. Learning. Iterating. Rather than, say, taking longer and trying to design it all right first time.…

29 Nov 2013

Use crushed garlic and ginger in most of your cooking

And save a little more time for life. We switched 8 years or so ago and haven’t looked back.…

28 Nov 2013

T-shaped people need breadth and depth

Breadth of experience, knowledge and sectors and world-class skills in one discipline. As you can imagine, this would set you up pretty well. IDEO famously seek out t-shaped people…

27 Nov 2013

There are 2.2 trillion combinations of an 8 character password

Which, remarkably, still does not mean they are secure. Use a password manager. And use longer passwords if you have to use them. Also see: 2 Factor Authentication Types of Phishing Human Risk Choose Passwords that Make You Happy…

26 Nov 2013

Our atmosphere is as thick for the Earth as the skin on an apple

Helpful reminder of how fragile the atmosphere is despite it looking pretty big when you’re standing outside.…

25 Nov 2013

Match challenge with skills illustration: a chart of skills and challenge shows flow in the center and anxiety and boredom at the edges

Match challenge with skills for flow at work

How to get into flow at work? Match challenge with skills. When your work is too hard for your skill you experience anxiety. When your skill is too high for the work you experience boredom. When your skill is matched with the challenge of the work then you can experience flow. This simple framework comes from the deep insights of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his book Good Business. See, Goldilocks Tasks…How to get into flow at work? Match challenge with skills. When your work is too hard for your skill you experience anxiety. When your skill is too high for the work you experience boredom. When your skill is matched with the challenge of the work then you can experience flow. This simple framework comes from the deep insights of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his book Good Business. See, Goldilocks Tasks

24 Nov 2013

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