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Twitter Posting Gone Awry
Now that’s interesting. For some reason, posting to Twitter stopped happening a few days ago. It looks like cross-posting wasn’t turned on, but don’t remember turning it on as items were hitting Twitter auto-magically… 🤔 For items to hit both the @microblog timeline and Twitter is somewhat necessary (for now). Will need to investigate this before next week’s thoughts hit the stream. Continue reading →
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Current vs Currents
Composing this as the start of yet another Excel class is about to begin. The framing is simple — to get a company of people who do various transformations and reporting with data to have the same floor — yet the feeling is not one where there has been much movement. An outsider teaching others how to use their tooling to do some aspect of their work feels like a bit of greaseing the wheel for a train which will never be moved forward. Continue reading →
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Wavelength
Totally late on this (as usual), but it looks like there’s a podcast client created by Micro.Blog’s inventor Wavelength Been thinking about doing a podcast alongside Avanceé (was looking at Anchor.fm) but this would be better for too many reasons. Not sure yet, but… Continue reading →
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Thought
Spent the week developing a Twitter/Medium strategy for a group. Sketching the blueprint was good for this moment; but the blueprint is only 25% of the journey. Getting folks to append/change their activities is the scripting of what’s next. Continue reading →
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Cutting New Roads
Somewhere in the weeds, or maybe beyond the bushes with the hard bristles and leaves, is that thing you and your team have been looking for. This isn’t a prophecy saying that you are looking; nor is it an inevitability you will be there when the rest of your team finds it. This is just an acknowledgement that the space between current state and ideal state isn’t exactly a road which has been paved before. Continue reading →
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Convo On Creating New Textiles
trying something where original “tweets” happen here versus on Twitter first Spoke w/a woman the other day who takes scrap clothing and turns them into new materials, new textiles. She didn’t like the waste, and her artistic leanings took over. Interesting note from convo: how her craft was shaped by a New England culture/attitude but Appalachian craft & values. How she sees sustainable stuff is in a shape rarely heard/seen. What didn’t work out with textile folks in the region screams of disruption coming from places you didn’t see coming. Continue reading →
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Paying Attention
Yesterday, spent some time on an upcoming podcast and one of the questions asked was about what new technologies or perspectives are being paid attention to. These are great questions because they don’t just talk about someone’s ability to lead, but also their ability to bridge where they might be leading with where others might be now. One lens of this answer was derived from the recently finished Homo Deus. The popular and challenging reads of the day will usually offer a lens into some of the executive or dinner-time discussions. Continue reading →
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Simple Image, Simple Focuses
It has been almost four months since starting Avanceé and there’s always this tension that it can be refined a bit more, that there’s something a bit better about it which can be pulled forward so that it creates as much value as it is envisioned to. And then you see those who have done similar and how you aren’t racing anyone - nor are you yet anywhere near the destination… Continue reading →
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Opining on the Value of Metrics
You can’t improve what you don’t measure In a recent conversation with an executive director of a youth-reaching program, we talked about developing applets (small apps) and process changes which enabled one mentor to spend less time working on the admin tasks of mentoring and more working towards the direct “jobs to be done” of seeing direct correlation between activity and outputs. The director’s face said more than any of the words that remained within that vein of the conversation. Continue reading →
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Methods and Tools of Work
Over the weekend, spent a bit of time diving into the work of service design during the Global Service Jam. There’s something pretty exciting about taking the expanse of what you know, adding a good bit of what you don’t, and mixing it with people you just met for a problem to be clearly defined in 48 hours. The activity within the Global Service Jam isn’t much different than most other work, its the intensity on figuring things out without the friction of tools, meetings, and even in-applicable research to get in the way. Continue reading →
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