proprioception. (prō’prē-ō-sěp’shən) noun, Physiology. The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. We have an innate need to know where we are in relation to objects around us. “Proprioception” is the sense we have of how far our knee is from the edge of the desk and how […]
Doing Less
Turning deadlines into plans
Defend the time you need to get your work done When I put a deadline on my calendar, it often seems far off in the future, with lots of time to get everything done. But as the deadline gets closer I wonder where all the time went. Regardless of my intention to make incremental progress against my deadline, it never seems […]
Lauren Fleshman Retiring
I read somewhere that “Americans have a hard time closing doors” and it rang true to me as someone who was always intending to get back to stuff. Gonna start training again, gonna get the printing studio running again. I pictured every American man with a rusting muscle car under (many) tarps in the garage, just […]
Do Less
Perceived vs Actual Freedom The problem we’re all wresting with can be stated in many ways… “I’m too busy” “I don’t have time” “I’m making commitments I can’t keep” …but another way to think about the problem may be the difference between our “perceived” freedom and our actual freedom. That is, we perceive—we believe—that we […]
Jeff Atwood
Like a crazy hoarder, I mistake the root cause of my growing mountain of incomplete work. The hoarder thinks he has a storage problem when he really has a ‘throwing things away problem’. I say I am ‘time poor’ as if the problem is that poor me is given only 24 hours in a day. […]