Archives for 24 October 2022

Shoulders All The Way Down by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Newton in 1675 famously said about his work, that if he was seeing further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants.*
Doing so he acknowledged the lineage of the things he worked on, which he added his own combinatory creativity to, gaining us all very considerable new insights.
This weekend re…

Deze observatie van Ton vind ik interessant: “Yet if then all we do is scanning history’s horizon for giants that stand out, we may find none, several, or usually one nearer that will have to do as big enough and simply assume that’s where the horizon is, while overlooking everyone else that any giants and…

What “Work” Looks Like (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

Collaboration is amazing! There’s absolutely no trade-offs, right?
The mantra of sharing your work and involving everyone in decisions naturally leads to inviting and copying people into things that add no value to them, or you.
That’s from “The Case Against Collaboration”, an interesting pi…

Interessant hoe dit een issue blijft voor veel mensen. Werk is pas werk als je ook in een werkhouding zit. Achter je laptop, typen. Of met mensen in een kamer, praten. Maar veelal gebeurt het echte creatieve werk als je niet aan het werk bent. Maar fietst, loopt, sport, over andere dingen nadenkt.

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