Communication is about explicitness and concision. The most efficient communicators and communications say specifically what needs to be said in the least amount of expression possible. But both of these qualities are also those that most expose us to being ...Read More
Everyone gets caught up on right and wrong, and for good reason. Perfect dichotomy is one of the easiest things for the human mind to understand. With context, a clear rating system, and a specific point of differentiation, the dumbest ...Read More
Mistakes get no love. Success hogs it all. But while success is ultimately what we are all aiming for, mistakes can help us get there quicker.
Success and mistakes both offer opportunities to learn from a situation, but mistakes often offer ...Read More
Content has the same natural tendency to store fat as humans. And being obese can have the same complications and dangers for both...Here are 10 quick ways to put your content on a diet, trim the fat, and make it ...Read More
Mistakes, both technical and ethical, will always be made in communication. The goal isn't to eliminate mistakes, or even to reduce them to the lowest level possible. The goal, as with anything, is to optimize the ratio between risk and ...Read More
Communication is the key to efficiency. But it get's harder with each connection, project, community, and opportunity we take on.
However, email is the nuts&bolts of anyone's communication capacity. Email chops are probably the most under-rated and over-looked skill set in a ...Read More
There are two kinds of managers. Those who take responsibility and those who take responsibility with conditions. It's easy to tell the difference. Just listen for the "woulds" "ifs" "becauses" and "buts". "If he had finished his part it would ...Read More
Our deepest pools of creativity flow within our minds. And yet most of us see only a trickle enter into the real world. Seldom do we ask ourselves where or why a bottleneck occurs. Instead, we accept as fact that ...Read More
Artists throw out dozens of half-used canvases before they finish a painting, and scientists mix thousands of dud combinations before they find the right formula. Failure is just as important as success, and much more common, but more importantly both ...Read More
What we think in our minds we are so hesitant to commit to paper, not because we don’t have the capacity, but because we have a natural human fear of the boundary between the internal and the external. Psychology and ...Read More
Note: this is a little more meaty than my regular posts, so feel free to skim or skip -- you've been warned. It’s also only about 82% fully thought out, and probably significantly less accurate, so don’t hold back if ...Read More
If creativity is gold, we are all on a rush. We all have veins of creative gold running through our minds, some of us are just better at mining it.The problem isn't usually ability, but rather technique. We see the ...Read More
Anytime you sit down to complete a professional task there is a certain amount inertia you must overcome to reach your highest level of productivity. Call it whatever you want, “getting the rust off”, “finding your zone” or “getting in ...Read More
Everyone has some degree of creative flow. And what separates what we see as true creatives isn’t the amount of creative flow they have, but instead the amount of creative output they are able to generate. Flow and output are not ...Read More
Yep, that's right. This is blog post #200 for Opinion@Large, which I launched 10 months ago. It hasn't always been easy to stay consistent, but I made it a necessity, and pushed through plateaus to stay productive. For everyone who ...Read More
