Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work

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So there’s kind of no, no degree of personalization, but also have the personalization. So that was the idea. So it was, what if we created this platform where you could post anything that you wanted to get done, and if you liked working with someone, you could assign it to that person or that team, or if you don’t care, it kind of goes to a small pool of vetted people. I think I’m on board with 90+% of the framework, and it’s provided clarity for me that helps with our Asana roll-out, especially for how this should fit in with our other tools. But it’s just not, and honestly, frankly, I’m not gonna mention the names of these soft, some softwares, but some of these software companies that we’re talking about, , we’re in talks with a lot of them to train their teams on how to use their own software properly. Because even at those companies, they’re not following any kind of guidelines of best practices.

To assist with long dives whales have developed special lungs that help them inhale additional oxygen and transfer it to enlarged blood vessels where it can be used by the body. Some readers might find it surprising that Orwell had a bit of sympathy for the chap trying to get away. Orwell was a man, after all, who in his late 30s volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War when he didn't have to, who seemingly couldn't conceive of an individual life without a certain responsibility to civilization as whole- a man I find morally admirable but for the same reason intimidating. But there's nevertheless some additional evidence of this sympathy in "Inside the Whale", Orwell's critical but not unsympathetic essay about Henry Miller- ostensibly a review of Tropic of Cancer, it turns into a reflection on Miller's worldview: I first met Miller at the end of 1936, when I was passing through Paris on my way to Spain. What most intrigued me about him was to find that he felt no interest in the Spanish war whatever. He merely told me in forcible terms that to go to Spain at that moment was the act of an idiot. He could understand anyone going there from purely selfish motives, out of curiosity, for instance, but to mix oneself up in such things from a sense of obligation was sheer stupidity. In any case my ideas about combating Fascism, defending democracy, etc., etc., were all baloney. Our civilization was destined to be swept away and replaced by something so different that we should scarcely regard it as human — a prospect that did not bother him, he said. And some such outlook is implicit throughout his work.The desire to get inside the whale- or to admit that you are already inside it, as Orwell refuses to condemn Miller for admitting- was understandable then, and it's understandable now. Who wants to think about this effing Coronavirus? Who wants to think about the warming of the planet, the concentration camps in China, and all the things that we don't seem to have any control over as individuals? Joe Bowling is George's elder brother. He was not intellectual, and, according to George 'therefore he had a slight proficiency in mechanics'. He never did any sizeable amount of work and worked for his dad as an 'errand boy'. One day when George was younger, Joe stole all the money from the shop till. He was said to have always wanted to emigrate to America, and was never mentioned again.I can see the war that’s coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.”

You didn’t really know how to do something, and then after a few times you figured it out. Once it’s repeatable and you have a set way of doing something, it moves to being a process. And there’s different tools for managing projects versus process. But one sign of maturity I f I feel as a company is the ratio of, of projects versus processes. Some species can only hold their breath for only a few minutes before resurfacing for air while other whales can hold their breath for up to 90 minutes or more. So, turtles need air to breathe, but they can sometimes absorb oxygen underwater. How exactly do they breathe? Through NaresAndrew: Okay, how? How do you get customers? How do you get these big customers that I’ve heard in private, you have. A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking.

Somehow the reality never lives up to the memory. Places from childhood are always smaller and shabbier than imagined. You wonder just why you got on with those folks so well, as you are now all stumbling to find something to say. The holiday destination you dreamed of years ago looks nothing like the pictures in your mind. Yet you still feel a strange kind of ownership over somewhere that used to mean a lot to you, and a sense of loss. Something has drifted away without you noticing. Due to the fact that whales live in the ocean they’ve developed a way to maintain their awareness of their surroundings and maintain control of their breathing, even when at rest. Knowledge base Tools (Sharepoint, Notion, Obsidian etc.) - All static information (Documnents, knowledge, etc.) Here’s what I’m gonna be doing in this interview. I wanna find out how he built up his company. I like the idea that he’s doing consulting for, for systems and organization and keeping teams productive. And then after that I’d like to find out some of the systems that he uses that the rest of us can use and frankly even.

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In this final section George Bowling remembers the slow decline of his father’s seed business, mainly because a large attractive store belonging to a successful chain had opened nearby. George’s father had no idea why his business was failing, when he had always managed to break even before, but he died before he was made bankrupt. This painful memory has made George particularly sensitive and resistant to what he sees as the marching ravages of so-called “progress”. Let’s just go buy a different domain. I log into my service. It turns out I’d own so many. That I had her name as a.com. I was bidding and not getting a response from myself. And then my brother, who gets the messages on all the domains, um, I told him the story. He goes, wait, that was you? I go, yeah. He goes, I’ve been getting all those messages trying to buy the domain.

If you have, if you have 10 channels, social media hyphen one, social media hyphen two, media hyphen social sm, like it’s defeating the whole purpose of this tool cuz it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. So you need to have policies around when to use tools and how to use tools.And, and so ultimately it was a blessing, but I definitely had to go through a lot of suffering to get to this point. Andrew: I love hearing that. And then we got to connect at a conference in Bali, which was running remote. And I forgot this. You reminded me. I kept asking you questions about Asana because we were using it to, to organize ourselves. You asked me. I eventually switched to base camp for project management