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So annoying
I started a new note today - lessons my kids have taught me. The first is a variation on “yes, and” from improve. What would be in your note?
Finished reading: Mayflies: A Novel by Andrew O’Hagan 📚
What if instead of looking to do more, we look to do our best, better?
I caught this from the Cal Newport podcast this week (I’m giving it a go) and he proposed it as a way to avoid burning out. I think he might be on to something here.
I was having real issue with Airr logging me out all the time. I changed from “sign in with Apple” to another option and all my issues disappeared. I don’t know if this is a sign in with Apple issue, App issue, combination, or just my account but it’s solved my biggest pain point
New AirPods, who dis? (Special audio is really trippy).
I just published the latest sketchnote roundup with…
- why organizations don’t change
- a technique for interesting headers
- a sketchnote book summary
Happy sleigh day 🛷
It’s that time of year where I’m wondering about DayOne alternatives. What are your recommendations? Tagging @chadgmoore
This quote sums up so much writing advice I’ve read which basically says “Write a lot” and sometimes adds “Oh and read a lot too” before moving on to endless promotion tactics. I wish more writing advice contained actually advice on writing.
Preachers who are using obsidian or similar note taking apps - how are you organising your sermons? folders, tags, index pages with links? What about your research notes? I’m curious to see if there are any very different ways of doing this.
Today is World Sketchnote Day! A day to celebrate this fun note taking format.
I decided to release my latest sketchnote book summary early for today (it’s on The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman which I picked up as a cure for imposter syndrome).
I hope you like it.
Sure Twitter has problems…but sometimes you find that people called God “PeePee” due to trying to express Hebrew letters in Greek.
Managing vs leading.
I’ve asked some friends for advice on managing a team and a lot of people respond with things on “leadership”.
I find that jump interesting. Of course there’s a lot of crossover between the two but I don’t view them as the same.
Leadership involves setting the vision and prioritise for a team. It’s about knowing where you should go and communicating that vision.
Management is about getting the most out of the people who report to you. Leadership and vision help with that, but it’s not the end of the discussion.
You can set and communicate a great vision with everyone bought in, but there can still be management issues (conflicts between team members, under performance from a team member, one team member needs a different approach, someone isn’t doing their best work) and when the vision is less than perfect, more problems can be added on.
I’m not saying that I’m a perfect leader, but I believe that my management issues aren’t related to my leadership but to my management. It’s even possible that my focus on setting a vision might be interfering with helping my team members. What I mean is I can be so focused on the goal that we should be going towards, that I miss the issues that are preventing team members from reaching that goal.
I suspect that I’m being tough on myself here (as I often am) and overthinking this, but it’s certainly an interesting area for me as I’m in the process of changing my mind on this subject.
Perhaps I’ll share more soon.
Oh that was good.
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Starting a new sketchnote book summary. It’s ironic that I read it as it’s supposed to help with imposter syndrome and now I don’t really think I have imposter syndrome. So I guess it worked?
Have you set a yearly theme? Let me know what it is and I’ll make a phone wallpaper for it to remind you throughout the year. (Here’s mine)
Out the car window today.
I had so much Christmas dinner I now feel as stuffed as our Turkey.
My Wife’s Covid test came back negative but I’m still waiting for mine…