Working Well

6 posts tagged “Working Well”.

  1. Four people sail a rough sea while a weighted line probes the unseen depth below them.
    3 min readPerspectives

    You might be running on vibes

    You can execute perfectly and still have no structure underneath it. Teaching is the only reliable way to find out what you actually understand.

  2. One person is buried under art supplies and other people's work while four colleagues watch.
    3 min readPerspectives

    Why being helpful is a trap

    Most requests are solutions in disguise. One question, asked at one moment, that saves quarters of wasted work, and the situations where it backfires.

  3. Blurred workers circle calendars and empty chairs while a stone remains still at the centre.
    3 min readPerspectives

    A packed week that moved almost nothing

    Everyone quotes the eighty-twenty rule and most of us live the inverse. Why attention flows to the small stuff automatically, and what to protect instead.

  5. A person sits compressed into a narrow office chair beside an open view of mountains and water.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The job was fine, so why did it flatten me

    The work was fine and I still finished every day flattened. On the difference between a bad job and a lonely one, and the cost of carrying it alone.

  6. Five people study a network of connected decisions behind a closed document in the foreground.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The document is just the receipt

    You can spend three days on a perfect specification and move nobody's understanding. Why the visible half of knowledge work keeps eating the valuable half.