Tag: prioritisation
On other people’s wrists, on clock towers, outside the jewellers, inside shops, at the station, on the scrolling news, from the position of the sun. Ask someone or…
This week’s Weekend Engineering Works post is about Ticket to Ride winning strategies. The game involves racing against other players to build a network of railway lines across…
Creative surplus is what you invest in order to create new ideas. Like operating surplus – or profit – it is what is left over when an organisation…
You are a world class performer at living your typical day. No one else has practised the precise set of habits, in the same precise sequence that makes…
It’s a phrase I picked up a long time ago from Tim Ferriss and it has stuck. What you do is much more important than how you do…
The tools you use define your work. They lock in choices about what you turn your attention to, what you can do and what you can’t. Before you…
Creative surplus is the time we have to invest in thinking creatively, just like a financial surplus allows us to make financial investments. I like the term because…
Today at Think Up I am writing a set of questions that can be used as a diagnostic tool to characterise different stages in the design process. The…
The Happy Grid is a technique I devised a few months ago to help me use short and long-term happiness as a guide for daily decision making. Since…
A recent weekend of conservation work Hazel Hill Woods has revealed to me another woodland analogy for the struggles of daily life, and how we might overcome…