I was recently featured in an Agile Amped Podcast created by Solutions IQ. In it, I give an interview about Opower’s experience, what self-selection is and how to make the event a success. You can check-out the summary and full 10-minute video here.
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport: Good Reminder, Not As Good as Deep Work
In Slow Productivity Newport says that our current definition of productivity is broken. Busyness has become a proxy for actual effort, and that history’s most creative and impactful people worked very differently than we do today. I buy into this premise completely. Newport is one of the clearest thinkers writing about work and attention right now, and I always appreciate his thoughts. Here’s a review about what I found valuable and perhaps not as valuable.
