How to Communicate Clearly During Organizational Change
A former colleague liked to remind leaders of their impact by telling them, “There are children you’ve never met who know your name.” The point was simple: Their followers were also mums or dads who were going home and talking about their day in front of their children.
4 minute read - great article about the signals we need to send ^ADJ
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The secret of the 10% most productive people? Breaking! | DeskTime Insights
A person can’t be 100% productive all day. As much as you want to make the most of every minute, to get shit done, to hustle, it’s just not humanly possible. Concentration is like a muscle, it needs to rest to be able to function, and it shouldn’t be overworked, otherwise it’ll simply burn out and take longer to get back into the swing of things. For this reason even an employee working an 8 hour workday needs to take breaks to stay productive.
5 minute read - great read ^ADJ
How Googlers Avoid Burnout (and Secretly Boost Creativity)
Adam*, is an engineer on Google’s self-driving car project (now its own division, called Waymo). He says the daily pace of work borders on fanatical. When he’s in the lab, the outside world disappears—we know this because he tells us so, and also because our text messages and emails to him almost always go unanswered ...
5 minute read - lots to think about how we work in 'flow' ^ADJ
BBC - Capital - Why you should manage your energy, not your time
When our workloads increase, many of us decide to up our number of working hours. But harnessing moments of 'unfocus' might be the key to getting more done in less time.
3 minute read - well worth thinking about ^ADJ
The secret origin story of the iPhone
This month marks 10 years since Apple launched the first iPhone, a device that would fundamentally transform how we interact with technology, culture, and each other. Ahead of that anniversary, Motherboard editor Brian Merchant embarked on an investigation to uncover the iPhone’s untold origin.
12 minute read - great story of how the iPhone was built in secret and the battles fought ^ADJ