Agile principles talk about hiring great people and getting out of their way. They emphasize that self organized teams produce the best results. The problem is, by focusing so much on individuals and teams they also tend to devalue the role of good management and good leadership outside of those teams.
How to be happy and effective
Most of us have way more work coming at us than we can possibly keep up with. We scramble to respond quickly to that email from our boss, to get that presentation ready for Monday, to fix that customer issue, and to unblock anyone who might be waiting on us, only to have the next urgent issue arrive before we finish dealing with the last one.
Read-later applications: strong medicine for browser tabitis
I love learning new things. For someone like me, the internet is a never-ending source of insights. It’s my source of answers when I’m curious about something, and my cell phone, tablets and computers are reading devices for Kindle books, Safari books, and facts and opinions from all over the web. I travel the internet where my curiosity and current problem-solving needs lead me.
Up until recently, I had a problem. My internet habit kept producing a virtual explosion of browser tabs. I’d do a search and find a number of promising articles that were too long to read right away. Wanting to come back to them, I’d leave them open in their own browser tabs. Over time I’d wind up with tons of tiny tabs making it hard for me to distinguish between things I was actively working on and things I wasn’t. I’d rearrange tab orders often, and do a deliberate cull a few times a week. Fortunately, I was recently introduced to a cure for this affliction: the read-later app.
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