I was going to title this post “Say no so you can say yes,” but I googled the phrase first and found that Zen Habits’ Leo Babauta has already written that thought down. “We have to clear up some space [in our lives],” Babauta writes, “by saying No to things we’d like to do, but […]
Alternative futures
September [2015]: FBI special agent Adrian Hawkins contacts the Democratic National Committee, saying that one of its computer systems has been compromised by a cyberespionage group linked to the Russian government. He speaks to a help desk technician who does a quick check of the DNC systems for evidence of a cyber intrusion. In the […]
What you do with 1,440 minutes
It’s appropriate that this post is about time. For about a week, the chorus in this part of the Western Hemisphere has been complaining about Daylight Saving Time, the time management system that, in most US states, takes an hour from spring and adds it to fall. The goal is to lengthen the amount of […]
Drucker: Making priorities clear
Peter Drucker was a legendary management consultant, professor, and writer who, like quality improvement’s W. Edwards Deming, guided the corporate world for more than 60 years. As a consultant to corporate managers, Drucker broke down common business habits, myths, and hunches so that managers and their organizations could rightly center people—both employees and clients. He […]
A sense of scale
I went on a long walk after work yesterday—about 40 New York City blocks. Some of that time I spent in the thick of a massive, traffic-snarling street march; the rest of the time I walked parallel to it instead. We’d been blanketed in grey clouds all day, and it was finally drizzling. Just when I’d […]
Our Greatest Power
I recently spent a week around the desert and red rocks of Central and Northern Arizona, and ended up at the Grand Canyon, an incredible example of what stone and water can do if given enough time. From the lip of compressed rocks, high above a river that’s carved dirt for millennia, my decades are […]
