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Why you need commonplace books and how to create them - DBR 069
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תוכן מסופק על ידי Larry Tribble, Ph.D. and Larry Tribble. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי Larry Tribble, Ph.D. and Larry Tribble או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
One of the primary uses of information is to help us learn. When we are explicitly learning, we work to collect information. It works the other way, as well. As we are exposed to new information, we have the opportunity to learn. The relationship between learning and merely storing information in our brains is mysterious. Many people would say that ‘learning is more than storing facts’, but when we try to figure out what that ‘more’ is, there is no clear consensus. To help think through the need for information, I’m going to argue that the commonplace book from the previous episode is a great target and goal for post-compulsory education. So one thing that came out in the Personal Information Management podcast (Episode 68) is that learning styles have changed, and certainly the techniques and technology have changed to some degree. So learning has changed a little but we want to think about our goal. Once we get done with the formal educational system, how do we go about learning? Developing a definition of learning
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- Learning has a lot to do with recreating the thought processes that another human being thought first,
- How do we go about learning? The modern view of learning in one sense: we practice thinking like the people that we want to think like later.
- Part of learning then is collecting this existing information so that we can practice having our brains think in these ways.
- We need to collect and manage information, and organize our attention such that we actually do the practice
- Multiple goals are in play at the same time, we've got to allocate our attention amongst the goals
- Books are, at a minimum, a ‘required feature’ of pedagogy there's huge debate over whether or not the standard pedagogy is the best possible pedagogy
- In the 21st century, textbooks are the teaching books (and primary pedagogy) of choice
- But there was a time before textbooks. What did pedagogy look like then?
- When secondary education is complete, some sort of a commonplace book would be a reasonable target for further education
- At some level, this podcast is a commonplace book for me, where I go out and learn things and then try to bring them back in and put them somewhere where you can find them if you're interested.
- A book on a subject that I would write for myself would be structurally different from a textbook.
- We'd want some instruction about different advanced techniques that are rarely used.
- Cases, examples, war stories on applications of the knowledge.
- It's somewhere between authoring and scrapbooking closer to the scrapbooking end of the spectrum.
- Organizing so that you can find things, indexing and table of contents
- How can we collect in such a way that puts it in this position of being part of the record for what we're going to do anyway?
- Project folders as learning tactics
- I teach clients to collect a project file to have a storage location where data can live
- Let's have both a short term storage location and a long term storage location
- Notebook for the daily, have another one or more to collect up the considered, important information
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שתפוManage episode 469195247 series 3562406
תוכן מסופק על ידי Larry Tribble, Ph.D. and Larry Tribble. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי Larry Tribble, Ph.D. and Larry Tribble או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
One of the primary uses of information is to help us learn. When we are explicitly learning, we work to collect information. It works the other way, as well. As we are exposed to new information, we have the opportunity to learn. The relationship between learning and merely storing information in our brains is mysterious. Many people would say that ‘learning is more than storing facts’, but when we try to figure out what that ‘more’ is, there is no clear consensus. To help think through the need for information, I’m going to argue that the commonplace book from the previous episode is a great target and goal for post-compulsory education. So one thing that came out in the Personal Information Management podcast (Episode 68) is that learning styles have changed, and certainly the techniques and technology have changed to some degree. So learning has changed a little but we want to think about our goal. Once we get done with the formal educational system, how do we go about learning? Developing a definition of learning
…
continue reading
- Learning has a lot to do with recreating the thought processes that another human being thought first,
- How do we go about learning? The modern view of learning in one sense: we practice thinking like the people that we want to think like later.
- Part of learning then is collecting this existing information so that we can practice having our brains think in these ways.
- We need to collect and manage information, and organize our attention such that we actually do the practice
- Multiple goals are in play at the same time, we've got to allocate our attention amongst the goals
- Books are, at a minimum, a ‘required feature’ of pedagogy there's huge debate over whether or not the standard pedagogy is the best possible pedagogy
- In the 21st century, textbooks are the teaching books (and primary pedagogy) of choice
- But there was a time before textbooks. What did pedagogy look like then?
- When secondary education is complete, some sort of a commonplace book would be a reasonable target for further education
- At some level, this podcast is a commonplace book for me, where I go out and learn things and then try to bring them back in and put them somewhere where you can find them if you're interested.
- A book on a subject that I would write for myself would be structurally different from a textbook.
- We'd want some instruction about different advanced techniques that are rarely used.
- Cases, examples, war stories on applications of the knowledge.
- It's somewhere between authoring and scrapbooking closer to the scrapbooking end of the spectrum.
- Organizing so that you can find things, indexing and table of contents
- How can we collect in such a way that puts it in this position of being part of the record for what we're going to do anyway?
- Project folders as learning tactics
- I teach clients to collect a project file to have a storage location where data can live
- Let's have both a short term storage location and a long term storage location
- Notebook for the daily, have another one or more to collect up the considered, important information
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Information Overload Is Simpler Than You Think - DBR 080 52:22
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיEradicating information overload. The goal of personal information management is to put processes and tools around our information so we can “manage” it – that means control it, tame it, have fewer emergencies around it. Our fear that we don’t have it well-managed causes us stress and anxiety – we call this ‘information overload’. So, a feeling of information overload is an indication that we don’t have our information managed well. After all, if you have a feeling of “bill overload”, you would look at your finances and budget, right? But is information overload a USEFUL term? Does it help us understand and deal with the problem? Or is it just a clickbait? Here, we’ll look into the definition of information - understanding the situation is a key to success. If Information Overload and/or the associated stress is a primary concern for you, this is your episode. Definition of information We don’t really have a good one – and that’s coming from an expert We think we can dimly grasp what information is… its related to some way of conveying 'something'. We even use information to convey 'something' to ourselves with notes, etc. For more, see James Gleick's book The Information But is information an independent thing? Information and attention are symbiotic. Example – regular radio pulses from astronomy. Is that information? How does this relate to overload? Information itself is not something that impinges on us. It can’t do that. But we do feel stress – meaning we feel like there's more than we can deal with - about 'something'. Is our problem really communication overload? Communication impinges on us. Communication means information used in a way that has a message (content) and usually has a signal. (we refer to both content and signal as information) We get shouted at - communicated AT Is our problem really content overload? There's no such thing as information overload in a library - content, in itself, has no means to impinge on us If books hollered at you and they weren't well organized, the library would be a horror show. So, this is Information that's well managed and has organizational schemes. In personal information management, one of the better metaphors is to have one's own personal library Is our problem really signal overload? The amount of incoming signal has never been so high The informational content of a signal itself is pretty low. Phones ring, computers beep, screens flash. We think this the right approach. But almost every signal is under our control It's signal overload. So, we've also got to think about the signals that we allow and those that we create for ourselves Conclusion/recap www.linkedin/in/larrytribble larry@doubsyright.com.…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Work-life Balance Is Nothing (... but an Attention Management Problem) - DBR 079 50:20
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThis episode is about the outcomes you can achieve with the information and coaching I am able to give. This is important, because it's gonna be work. It's not hard work but it is work. You'll need to change a couple of thought patterns and build a new habit or two. And in order for you to do that work, you need to know what's in it for you: what's going to happen when you do it. I’ll talk about what other clients have experienced as they've adopted this attention management mindset. The goal is nothing short of making you a better worker and making your life easier. That's two things, not one that depends on the other. What I mean is not that your life's going to be easier because you're a better worker. It's two things. Work's going to be easier to deal with and life's going to be easier to deal with. Outcome: better work/life balance One of the primary pressures on productivity is the notion of work life balance We’re doers of many things in both work and life spheres So, we have two claims on our attention A third primary claim on our attention - entertainment. It's attention consuming. Attention is the primary constraint in modern life The bottleneck on on 'productivity' is our ability to pay attention to getting things done Our work is very much mental work What is it we get better at with attention management? Parallel to athleticism in sports General education - things that apply to all work Underlying even that are abilities that allow us to perform work well We need to develop skills to have our attention where it needs to be when we need for it to be there. There's simply not a word for it in the English language. Attention helps us with the "infinite number" of things that we've got to do If we don't handle that set of things very well they absorb too much of our attention We need a concept of wasted attention If we get better at both work and life (independently), then we’ve got more space to “balance” the two. We come to see that they are not automatically in competition all the time Other outcomes that we can expect You'll get better at your work, regardless of what you do. The important notion of "deliverables" and why attention is critical Better opportunities in your career Better at tasks that constitute 'life' Better at learning, the most basic knowledge work skill An aside on the stress related to competition Corporate world: competition for promotion Sales: competition with other products / solutions Our business schools are focused on models of industry competitiveness Economics teaches us scarcity and competition. If we know we're more skilled, we can face competition with less fear and stress Recap larry@dobusyright.com www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Watch Out For The Three 'Micro' Wastes of Productivity - DBR 078 51:09
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיI want to describe calm productivity. And I want to contrast the results of attention management to the results of efforts to do time management. I’m going to take you over to a recording of a public talk I did at a conference at UA. It’s titled: "The Three Enemies of Productivity". The actual thing that we all want is productivity or efficiency (which are probably synonyms, for the most part). Productivity and efficiency both mean outputs per unit input. When we talk about productivity, we typically think of outputs per unit time. On the other hand, when we're talking about organizational productivity we may be talking about maximizing output per dollar cost or other things. But when we talk about individual productivity, personal productivity and knowledge work, then typically we're going to wind up talking about maximizing results per unit time. And that's fine. But maximization of that is not a “flow” state. It is not calm productivity. It’s “hurry culture”. The equations come from physical product studies Physical product is not variable Delivery mechanisms are critical in knowledge work because information must be comprehensible Part of the product is this comprehensibility Less so in the physical product world Implications of the physical-product-based efficiency equations How this plays in “time” management The first thing is to get rid of waste The notion of “wasting time” is challenging - many things LOOK like waste. So, we try to shrink time. But “speeding up” is bad for us, although “less time” is often good. Poor utilization of the asset (downtime) is the first waste. We've got to understand what the asset is What's being challenged for us is not exactly our time. It's our attention. And, there's lots of ways that our attention could be wasted. There is no real way to ‘overclock’ If I can make you go faster than you're comfortable going, then you're going to start making mistakes. Trying to make somebody go faster than they can is the result of a focus on time management. In the extreme, rushing to make time efficient is cutting corners Rushing does nothing to give us a sense of of calm, and peaceful. Macro waste of attention I don't Talk about macro waste. Use the Covey quadrants. We can't be Attention intensive for 8, 10, or 12 hours a day. “Losing” our attention We don't yet know what "leaves" when we lose our focus. An example of talking about attention in the wrong way Micro wastes of attention. Task switching has an enormous cost in attention. Two reasons for focus The three primary 'micro' wastes of attention (the Keynote) Interruption Multitasking Distraction ...and how to deal with them I enjoy giving this keynote. It helps me spread the message about the core of productivity. If you know someone who needs to hear it, share or get them in touch with me for a keynote. www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble larry@dobusyright.com…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Over-allocated Attention and the Associated Stress - DBR 077 54:26
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיOur attention is over-allocated by a nexus of events. This episode is what to do about that. I'm gonna acknowledge something that I'm not a big fan of. Apparently April is stress awareness month. So, if you weren't aware of stress, stress is a thing. I think most of us are aware of it. I don't want to be a curmudgeon but oh my word. Yes, I'm already aware of all of the different months that have some awareness attached to that. About stress… My promise to you is: if you practice good attention management, that will lead to a new level of productivity for you. That productivity will interact with your level of stress around 1) your to-do list and 2) the information that you need to manage such that your level of stress will go down. In this episode, I'm going to try and do a couple of different things. One is I'm going to tell you a little bit about stress. I’ll give you a great resource around stress. Two is we're going to talk about a really strange notion in our modern world; it's called contentment. If you've never heard that word before I get it, and we'll talk about what that is. Stress versus contentment and achieving some sense of peace, calmness, and clarity. And dare I say it, happiness? This is all based on our attention and the fact that we're at a nexus of events. These events are colliding such that the world is putting us, more precisely our attention, under intense pressure. The intensity of pressure is something that we have not dealt with before, as a culture, as a society. There’s an attention-based stress challenge. Society and culture are placing huge demands on us. It's not a published demand; nobody notified you that this would be happening. That set of forces is the third thing that we'll talk about today. What is stress? Stress is the difference between our expectation and what we experience in reality In this sense, it is closely related to frustration. The feeling is like frustration The Myth of Stress – Andrew Bernstein The only way to deal with it is to learn new expectations (not easy) Our stated expectation – this is just a busy time (month, quarter) – is not reality Also, there seems to be an unstated assumption that we’ll just get better at this as a culture or society. Another false expectation Contentment Example of escalating expectations: the notion of a 'prom-posal' The only term I can come up with at present is: child inflation. Contentment is counter-cultural The present culture has associated contentment with inability - inability to achieve - or poverty, inability to pay for it. We don't want to be seen as incapable of living up to this cultural Norm The factors around our attention Fact 1: the level of attention getting is higher than ever. We’re all trying to get each other’s attention. The level is rising Fact 2: our levels of information and communication are continuing to rise Fact 3: more of us are using our attention as our productive asset Fact 3.5 we are the most entertained society in history And entertainment is a pleasant deployment of our attention. We feel trapped in our frustration over attention My hypothesis is that we wandered into this situation and, therefore, we don't have good tactics to deal with it. That's what I do: give you good tactics to deal with the information- and task-based claims on your attention. That will lower your stress and help you perform better in work. Email me with comments or questions: larry@dobusyright.com And connect with me on LinkedIn to see occasional announcements on episodes and other stuff: www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble (please mention the podcast).…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Yes! You CAN Be Happy At Work - DBR 076 41:43
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThe happiness at work episode. Yay. I’m happy to be at work. Last time we talked about pessimism versus optimism. A closely related subject is happiness versus misery. I do think that optimism is critical. I've heard it said that your number one goal as an entrepreneur is to protect your optimism. I think it's that important. If you’re in the knowledge Work World and think you're not an entrepreneur and then you probably need to reconsider the definition of Entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is somebody that makes their own deal, that makes their own job. And you should probably be a lot closer to doing that than maybe you think you should be. Standing around getting told what to do all the time. Is not. Fulfilling satisfying, or really very enriching. You got to bring something to the party. So figure out what your thing is and bring it because we need it. And then protect your optimism that you can make a difference in the world. As I'm recording this, it's Easter week and I'm a Christian, I'm very happy. Today is Thursday of Easter week. Which is Maundy Thursday. For those of you who aren't familiar with Christian tradition, Maundy is m-a-u-n-d-y. Traditionally, it's where we celebrate Jesus serving his disciples at the Last Supper and Loving on them in that way. Tomorrow, of course, will be Good Friday, which you may be even more familiar with. If not, Good Friday is traditionally the day that Jesus was crucified. We say good to make the point. A lot of people are particularly happy at Christmas. I like Christmas too, but Easter is nore theologically sound. So I hope you're happy this week too while we talk about happiness at work. Happiness and optimism go hand in hand. If you're optimistic about an outcome, then generally speaking that's going to correlate with some degree of happiness about where you are in the world. It's a confusing topic to some degree. I don't think it's necessary that we get into the controversy, but let's talk about what we all agree on. I think a lot of people don't like work. I think a lot of people have made up their minds that they're not gonna like work. In the minority of cases we don't like work because we work in some nasty environment, really dangerous, those kinds of things. Of interest, of course, is the fact that many of the people who do that sort of thing are really, really passionate about what they do and their unhappiness about it seems at least to be limited if not totally subsumed. People in the military, people in the medical profession, a lot of these areas. That said, if you're listening to this podcast you probably work in a nice comfy office - comfortable chair, air conditioning, you’ve got the tools that you need. You’re pretty comfortable and well-treated. Maybe there's bits and pieces around the edges that you'd prefer were different, fine. I just think we've got to recognize that as part of this happiness equation. Optimism is more productive - last podcast Happiness and optimism go hand in hand Charley Gilkey: happy = 31% greater productivity Attitude is important, particularly in service businesses – “my pleasure” Challenges to happiness at work Last podcast… the meme that realism is a sophisticated approach Desire and "wanting it." Flow state is NOT hard, grunting work I do think that the desire piece is overstated in the culture. Avoid this part of the hustle culture I don't think it has to be hard to be morally good work. Negativity and pessimism around work have two primary components Ways to be happier at work Human beings have a great capacity to enjoy the things that we do. A definition of discipline(s) Strong relationships require disciplines. We call this discipline and learn as small humans to dislike it. I’m disciplined in some areas and not in others. You're likely the same Work-life balance vs. chore-craft balance - from Cal Newport and Scott Young. Craft – doing “the thing” Chore – peripheral to “the thing” Craft transcends the work life conflict Happiness at work is certainly possible. Believing that is half the battle. How we do our work with happiness. Engage the disciplines Understand the indirect relationships Happiness is a big part of Doing Busy Right. Part of it is stress reduction. Part of it is greater throughput. Part of it is greater confidence. In addition, consider some of these other ways to be happy at work. larry@dobusyright.com www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Pessimism Cloaked as Realism Considered Harmful - DBR 075 53:32
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThis one's about optimism and pessimism, and what that has to do with productivity. I and the whole thing is a productivity concern for me. We talk about confidence around these parts. That’s because I think confidence ties to productivity. The tie there is imposter syndrome. We struggle to understand what confidence is. But confidence is fundamental to what we're trying to do, particularly as knowledge workers. By the same token, optimism is fundamental to productivity. A lot of this has to do with long term career growth rather than just simple productivity. We'll leave that career growth potential aside, and just talk about productivity now. The problem The problem is that many people are pessimists If you are not confident in your ability to do something, then your ability to do that thing is going to be quite limited The invisible work that we do leads to negative mental gymnastics like writer's block and imposter syndrome. Our feelings about a thing do have a lot to do with our ability to do and thus I think we should cultivate optimism I’ll give you some tools and motivation to embrace optimism, if you’re an optimist and work to become an optimist, if you’re not Realistic positivity - optimism vs “Toxic positivity” Definition of discipline Mental landscape and productivity The science Learned helplessness Growth mindset is pretty close to a good definition of optimism Grit Counter arguments I'm not a pessimist about me. I'm a pessimist about the world. Optimism as naivete, realism is rational Limiting disappointment by managing expectations Engineering mindset Definition of work Problem solving Tenacity Recap I hope I've convinced you that optimism is the most productive, practical mindset. You should now have some tools to help you cultivate optimism in your life and work. Remember, you've solved many problems and (to date) have survived the worst news you've received. You can do it. larry@dobusyright.com www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 How We Got Here and Where We're Going - History of Knowledge Work Productivity - DBR 074 50:36
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיI want to talk about the history of knowledge work productivity. And it's going to involve a lot of different names. It's going to involve the triumvirate, well, the quadrumvirate (that’s the real word), the Mount Rushmore. Only through understanding what they were thinking about can we extend that thinking. Then we can work on knowledge work productivity. We'll go all the way back to the start of the 20th century. We have Frederick Taylor studying “Scientific Management”, which is a study of work, not ‘management’ per se. Then we've got Peter Drucker, and he's important because he was doing all the thinking around knowledge work and how that came about. Stephen Covey taught us that we have to get our mindset right in order to be effective people. David Allen taught us how to use tools and stop using our brains for task and attention management. I might bring in Cal Newport and Thomas Davenport and these different kinds of names, just because of the curiosity factor there. But anyway, Drucker, Covey, Taylor, David Allen, This episode is about: What problem do businesspeople and managers (in particular) have to deal with Why is it an important problem What ways have we tried to deal with this previously What tools are at our disposal to try to solve it now Who is currently presenting solutions and what are they The issue is that our economy, particularly our economic productivity, is changing. We have yet to fully understand how to react to that change. Some history to give us perspective and hints on what to do. 20th century productivity growth Organizational structures - sociology (business structures were not theorized/engineered) Original organizational structures (government/church/military) were monarchy/hierarchy The notion of trade, business, and getting wealthy (via the “business” way) Apprentice -> employee -> growing organization -> modern business problems (management) Used to be everybody worked for the king, who distributed wealth and work It needed to scale and be ‘optimized’, but was never engineered We don't know exactly how it works You got three blacksmiths. All of a sudden it's a managerial problem Most things cultural or sociological there isn't hard science - like business Atom bomb derived from theory and we ‘engineered’ a way to construct one. Same thing with NASA and the space program. Business really was not that way Railroad/telegraph as a management problem (distributed locations). If you need to tell somebody the train's coming, there's no faster way for that information to travel than the train itself. The history of information really correlates to the history of business and culture We can’t communicate quickly enough between different locations for ‘real-time’ management These business/communication structures grew organically, business is perhaps more Darwinian than Darwin Well, all of this was command and control. So what about leadership/governance/control of the organization Now, we have to explain leadership, and this notion of who gets to tell who what to do The ‘great man’ theory Mid 20th century, there was a cult of personality Huge corporations, like General Motors, and they're selling stock, and nobody really understands how that works Government: we've got to understand how this business thing works and explain it to people and regulate it How we began to understand and explain Frederick Taylor "scientific management" and notions of the efficiency of individual workers Peter Drucker In "The Concept of the Corporation" is trying to explain the notion of governance structures, some way to get people to work together We've got big organizations and factories. Got to produce a lot, and so we need to break this down, because nobody, no one person, can produce it all Drucker developed technique for management and the ideas of knowledge work Stephen Covey comes along. He's exploring this idea of technique for ‘effectiveness’. Covey talks effective people in terms of psychological, psychosocial properties of behavior and modes of thought. This is different from previous thought. Now, Knowledge Work improvement (and management) Drucker’s hypothesis: improve the productivity of knowledge work. How do we manage versus how do we strategize? Now, we’ve moved to KW (and management) So, how do we manage ourselves and others The goal of such management is to improve the productivity of knowledge work. David Allen started to use Taylorist thinking in improving knowledge work. My offering on how to manage Knowledge Work is the Attention Compass - a successor to Allen's methodology. Focus: What are the components of knowledge work and how can we improve them? What is the system that needs to be put in place? Our community is working on this and needs your insights and voice. Get in touch. larry@dobusyright.com or find me on LinkedIn.…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Fable: Productivity Rain Dances - Watch Out - DBR 073 47:37
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיI started out talking about the lies of productivity, but I’m going to change to fables because it's just things we collectively believe without much evidence. Plus, I don't think anybody's intentionally trying to mislead us. We just move without much actual data. A couple of those fables collided with a post by Cal Newport with the evocative title of “productivity rain dances”, which is a pretty humorous mental picture. Apparently, rain dances are those habits of work that we believe make us productive but actually don’t. We don’t develop evidence, so we are engaging in superstition. So, fables and rain dances probably have some overlap. Let’s explore Cal’s post and investigate some of our own practices to make sure we’re not wasting our time and energy doing things that don’t improve our productivity. What is the discussion? Cal’s post about Chris Williamson’s podcast It’s not that nothing is useful in productivity, it’s just that the field is not scientifically organized. Experiment means think, gather data, analyze situations. It does not mean “I feel like…”. Technique is a real thing and it exists – there is a better way to manage your tasks and attention. Is a new tool really that helpful? Or is AI another ‘rain dance’ Cal’s post: https://calnewport.com/productivity-rain-dances/ Examples of rain dances (or Fables) Williamson gave a few examples: Why do I sit at my desk when I'm not working? Why do I thrash around about emails? Why do I take phone calls that have no goal? My fables are more habits of thought around specific tasks “I'd better do it before I forget about it” Usually means “… forget about it again” Sometimes we do it just because its late I feel guilty because I'm not any better at my stuff In order to resolve that guilt, we pop up and go do it now Overlap with “not finished” syndrome Avoiding the knee jerk reaction Our systems don't dictate our priority; they reflect our priority. If we often say, "I better do it before I forget about it", then your system is broken. Instead, say to yourself, I'd better capture it before I forget about it. We create tasks that implicitly have the Title of "Make progress on X" “Thrashing is a rain dance.” Rapid task switching, multitasking is a rain dance When we measure time, we switch from measuring outputs to measuring inputs Faster, in and of itself, is not more efficient. Efficiency is a property of a system and only makes sense when the goal is clear. Don't maximize inputs to try to maximize outputs. Only time saved at the bottleneck step of your process improves your productivity. every process has a bottleneck, and the bottleneck governs the overall throughput of the system, Some commentary on the comments Inbox zero: rain dance, or not? Inbox Zero is not efficient behavior in and of itself “Tweaking” your system is a rain dance We spend a lot of time and a lot of stress buying tools to speed up parts of the process that are not the bottleneck, and then we don't get better productivity because of it. You don't need a system to help you handle email faster. You need a system to reduce the amount of email you have to deal with. It's an input. Increasing the inputs for the same number of outputs is the opposite of productivity - the opposite of efficiency, Where have we gotten today? Define your outputs; identify them very cleanly, and then focus on those and work backwards Identifying a bottleneck is not a trivial challenge Faster is not more productive. Faster is simply faster. Many of these things are signs that your system is broken or incomplete We do our rain dance and it doesn't rain so the process is broken Understanding which part of a process is broken is not trivial or simple. Don't deal with a system in a piecemeal fashion (See the previous episode about optimizing sub processes is not a reliable way to optimize the overall process.) larry@dobusyright.com; www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do? - DBR 072 49:53
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיMost everybody involved in knowledge work is involved with technology. It's what we do. We deal in information, so we deal with information technology. We believe that it makes us more productive – “better” at our jobs. But what is the evidence that information technology is helping us be more productive? After all, that is its purpose in the modern workplace. I’d suggest that many people believe that the tech companies are dealing with that on our behalf. And the software companies would agree. They want to tell you that, yes, they're improving your productivity. But there's a ton of contrary evidence to that. Also, both solopreneurs and companies are just hurling themselves into AI. The argument is, as the argument has always been with IT, that AI will make us more efficient, more productive. There are good reasons to doubt that. We’ll get into them. What is the productivity paradox? The mismatch between the belief that IT spend on improved productivity and flat economic productivity The Y2K Bug and the aftermath of the Dot Com Bust The productivity paradox is making a return You need to know as you plan your own IT spending, for yourself or your team look for two problems: 1) you’re wasting money, and 2) you may not have another plan for improving productivity What is the ‘modern’ productivity paradox? process “accretion” We struggle to learn from each other Vendors are a little unreliable on this point, for obvious reasons an accumulation of point solutions doesn't make a system Challenges of managing technology 2003 Nicholas Carr , "IT Doesn't Matter" Carr’s point: technology wants to be a commodity Carr’s conclusion: you can’t gain a strategic advantage with a commodity resource Systems theory efficiency is in automating processes, not in automating tasks. the difference between automating tasks and automating processes optimize a sub process then you sub optimize the whole process Systems engineering example – The Goal, Eli Goldratt Modern productivity paradox What to do? Be aware that there is an ongoing argument about how to do this. It’s not trivial. Think about optimizing and automating Processes rather than Tasks Measure at the process level and experiment Recap I guess the primary takeaway is a reminder to not let the IT hype be a distraction from what you're trying to do. Some tools will help you and others won't. Just understand that convenience and 'time-savings' are actually pretty low on the list of useful targets for IT interventions. Stay focused on what you produce that creates the value you deliver to the world. Things that help you produce more are productive, everything else is not really. www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble larry@dobusyright.com…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 "Attention Crisis"? What is the Argument and the Evidence - DBR 071 45:36
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThere's an article in The New Yorker "What If The Attention Crisis Is All A Distraction" by Daniel Immerwahr. I think the attention problem (if there is one) is important for us to understand and resolve and, frankly, to have a debate about. I thought I'd report out on this article, and the state of play. Where are we? What's the evidence? How do we form an opinion on what's going on with society on this front? My foundation for engaging in the debate: I think attention is the fundamental productive commodity in our current economy. I think as knowledge workers, our attention is what we use to make our economic productive way through life. It's how we create value and and the means by which we we earn our food. Drucker's hypothesis: American economic growth that we experienced in the 20th century was based on huge increases in in labor productivity. Therefore if we're going to maintain our economic growth level, then we've got to do the same thing with knowledge work. We have to increase the productivity of knowledge workers So our ability to deploy and manage our attention is important, both for us as individuals and also for the economic society at large. Do we have a problem with increasingly short attention spans? Our question Work, particularly knowledge work, requires that we pay attention to it for periods of time. I'm mostly interested in the impact of attention on on work and economic productivity. I think that things that that interfere with our ability to focus for extended periods of time, hurts us. Humans have always been distractible and have needed to be taught to have an attention span of any duration What does attention span mean? (Based on: The Distracted Mind, 2016, Gazzaley & Rosen) Attention is fundamentally selective - it has an object. The persistence of this selectivity is what we mean by attention span Therefore, logically it includes the ability to to block out other things So-called “compelled attention" interferes with our ability to block out Attention Crisis? Really? There have been attention crises prior to the modern version. Plato didn't like the technology of writing "Amusing Ourselves To Death", Neil Postman, 1985. The threat of TV "The Shallows", Nicholas Carr, 2010. The threat of the internet "The Sirens Call", Chris Hayes, 2024. The threat of active technology Hayes Attention is a commodity – it gets captured and sold to people who want us to buy something We have a thing called “compelled attention” (involuntary attention) “Attention engineering” is not a new thing, but its intensity is increasing as the value of attention increases We’re “Penned into a way of paying attention that we don’t like” Immerwahr The data are equivocal and “distracted from one thing is to attend to another” Increasing length of movies, television, and video games as evidence that our attention spans are not shrinking The hand wringing comes from elite “attentionistas” who are in the old-school attention business My thoughts Sometimes we must pay attention to that which is not attention grabbing, like work Advertising is monetized attention and is growing When it comes to utilizing our brains and our attention in functional ways, I think a decrease in the ability to sustain attention is bad. My concern is whether or not we control our own attention If we're gonna think well, then we have to think in long sequences. That's challenging to us So attention span is important. The good news is that we can work on maintaining our attention and focus in the face of "Compelled Attention" and any shortening attention span. I offer coaching, Attention Compass implementation training, and this podcast as ways for you to combat the theft of your attention and the negative consequences for knowledge workers.…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 The Wrong Mindset May Be Causing Bad Results - DBR 070 51:53
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיIt's time to update on philosophy of work; I've got some more info for you. A lot of this is going to be review, but I think it's absolutely critical that we put ourselves in the right mindset towards work. It's important because work is what actually produces the things that we then associate with productivity. Unfortunately, there's a lot of a lot of weird stuff going on in our heads about work. Our perspective on work has significant impact on our lives and our productivity: We’re more likely to procrastinate things we “don’t like” We have more stress around them, quality of life We tend to rush at them without thinking about how we could get better at them Your brain gives you what you expect - if you expect "miserable" that's what you get So, can we change our mindset? We just want to get these things out and inspect them get our mindsets right about work, and get rid of some of the weird stuff. We’ll cover: A historical perspective on work Cultural ideas about work What might work mean for humans More recent ideas Historical view of work Hunter/gatherer to agriculture and herding – reduction of risk The rise of business (work for money) The era of slavery in the West and America Modern employment is sometimes compared to these other kinds of work Model of work as slavery, drudgery, serfdom Cultural issues with work Only ‘hard’ work is virtuous; sweating is virtuous, and not sweating is not virtuous. Things that are easy (for us?) are not accorded much virtue. We glorify the hustle culture in America. Artifacts of a consumerist culture - The ’cash problem’ We're working critters We enjoy working as 'making the world and ourselves into what we want them to be' Most of us despise the idea of doing nothing. We call it boredom. We can't avoid goal seeking based on imagination and problem solving Currently common ideas Start With Why? We can “choose our own adventure” to some degree Your standard (of quality) is your own; think about your standard. Minimum effective dosage (Matt Reynolds via the AOM podcast) there's such a thing as as doing it the easy way Think through these mindsets and determine where yours has come from. Check it against reality to see if it matches up. If not, try to learn to think in different ways. If we consider our work to be joy, then we'll get joy from it. larry@dobusyright.com www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Why you need commonplace books and how to create them - DBR 069 51:56
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיOne of the primary uses of information is to help us learn. When we are explicitly learning, we work to collect information. It works the other way, as well. As we are exposed to new information, we have the opportunity to learn. The relationship between learning and merely storing information in our brains is mysterious. Many people would say that ‘learning is more than storing facts’, but when we try to figure out what that ‘more’ is, there is no clear consensus. To help think through the need for information, I’m going to argue that the commonplace book from the previous episode is a great target and goal for post-compulsory education. So one thing that came out in the Personal Information Management podcast (Episode 68) is that learning styles have changed, and certainly the techniques and technology have changed to some degree. So learning has changed a little but we want to think about our goal. Once we get done with the formal educational system, how do we go about learning? Developing a definition of learning Learning has a lot to do with recreating the thought processes that another human being thought first, How do we go about learning? The modern view of learning in one sense: we practice thinking like the people that we want to think like later. Learning and practice AI is a best in class practice machine. Part of learning then is collecting this existing information so that we can practice having our brains think in these ways. If practice is involved, then we have tasks and, thus, attention We need to collect and manage information, and organize our attention such that we actually do the practice Multiple goals are in play at the same time, we've got to allocate our attention amongst the goals The historical tie between learning and books is so tight that it must be useful Books are, at a minimum, a ‘required feature’ of pedagogy there's huge debate over whether or not the standard pedagogy is the best possible pedagogy In the 21st century, textbooks are the teaching books (and primary pedagogy) of choice But there was a time before textbooks. What did pedagogy look like then? What about our own (personal) books and non-textbooks?? When secondary education is complete, some sort of a commonplace book would be a reasonable target for further education At some level, this podcast is a commonplace book for me, where I go out and learn things and then try to bring them back in and put them somewhere where you can find them if you're interested. What would our commonplace book look like? A book on a subject that I would write for myself would be structurally different from a textbook. We'd want some instruction about different advanced techniques that are rarely used. Cases, examples, war stories on applications of the knowledge. It's somewhere between authoring and scrapbooking closer to the scrapbooking end of the spectrum. Organizing so that you can find things, indexing and table of contents What tactics would we use? What technology(s)? How can we collect in such a way that puts it in this position of being part of the record for what we're going to do anyway? Project folders as learning tactics I teach clients to collect a project file to have a storage location where data can live Let's have both a short term storage location and a long term storage location Notebook for the daily, have another one or more to collect up the considered, important information Attention Compass is an ideal workflow to help you capture a commonplace book in real time. Hit me up for a free session: https://calendly.com/larrytribble . Email me: larry@dobusyright.com Or find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 The History of Paper as a History of Personal Information Management - DBR 068 52:20
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThis episode is about the history of personal information management as viewed through a now ancient technology, PAPER We’ll have a couple of takeaways: One is human beings have been trying to manage their own personal information for a long time, so we don’t need to be so worried about the current need – we’re humans so we manage information. We’ll glean wisdom from these previous efforts to manage the information that the world presents to us. We’ll assess tactics and mindsets that are going to be useful to us. Hat tip to the Art of Manliness website, and to Roland Allen talking about his book, The Notebook. There's also information in this podcast from a book called Hamlet's BlackBerry that I read some years ago, and a book called The information that that talks about the history of our understanding of information and its use in our world, so some combination of those things. The management of personal information Ancient: Plato was skeptical of writing as an information management technique. Less ancient: people used wax tablets. In the 1300s we were using money. We had language; we had poetry; we heard things that we wanted to record and wanted to tell other people. And so, life was not a ton simpler than it is now. Note on reusable media. Even less, but still fairly, ancient: the commercial availability of paper Note: we had blank paper for hundreds of years before we had the printing press. People would get a bound collection of paper called a notebook. Also hundreds of years before printing. Gave rise to various practices in information keeping, information management. Non-printed Books Initially, books were handwritten and hand copied Note on the reliability measures of Old Testament copying Making a hand-copy of a book while sitting at a desk for extended periods of time being read to and writing this down. A bound set of pieces of paper that you write in would not have been foreign The commonplace book Printed books The notion of an almanac Printing created a more authoritative position for authors and publishers, along with a broader reach Education Use of notebooks in education – what can we learn Diaries and travelogues would have been more autobiographical The notion of a textbook really dates from the 1800s or so The notion that education could very likely have been the creation of books for oneself 500 years ago, education may have consisted of putting your book together so that then you had the compendium of knowledge as it was presented to you Same possibly in the trades Modern ideas Nuances of reusable media Allen: there was kind of a scratch notebook, and then a big notebook Modern journaling The possible need to have two notebooks Is the creation of a book a good educational goal? How do we apply modern technology? Capture and Processing using modern tech Complexity led to ancestors keep records of people and places and things. Some of that turned into financial record keeping Maybe we should be spending our time trying to create our commonplace book(s) as we learn things. Summary…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Operating system for attention, tasks, information (and time) - DBR 067 54:04
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיWe need a new operating system. We need one that is specifically dedicated to knowledge work. So I'm going to point you to one that already exists. When we start talking about ways to manage our information, the tech is really important, and I'll explain why. But the tech is dealt with and managed through some sort of overall plan, and some tech is better than other tech, and we'll talk about all these sorts of things. When we think about an operating system, it's both a set of tools and some mapping of those tools to a process or flow. And so that's what I think we need, and that's what we've developed with Attention Compass. When I say we've got bad tech, I mean it's not been updated - it uses archaic metaphors. (I talk about metaphors in a previous episode - episode 40, if you want to know more.) These metaphors impede our ability to do what we want to do or what we need to do with the information that we use the tools for. https://dobusyright.com/what-does-our-it-really-do-for-us-dbr-040/ I'll explore the relationship between attention and information, because they're so tightly linked that all of the tools that we utilize are information tools in nature. And that's going to be important, because the ways the current tool set fails us are that they don't let us work with information the way we should best work with information. Now this is an attention show, attention compass, and our attention is absolutely critical, for reasons that I've talked about previously – like episode 57 where we talk about time versus attention. So I'm going to try to explain or interpret the relationship between attention and information. We want to manage our attention well, so I’ll relate attention back into the nature of information. This will help us understand why our tools are not designed to manage information in the ways that best support our attention management. https://dobusyright.com/protecting-ourselves-with-a-model-of-attention-dbr-057/ Two reasons attention is important one - how we direct our will (what to DO) When we're making or doing something in the world, we're using our attention, directing it to some situation in the world. Two – our attention is how we engage with information Attention to consume information, to do the work of ‘transmuting’ information, to encode the information What we need to be able to do with information Find information Utilize some media to consume the information Store/encode the resulting information Why are the tools important Information doesn't exist by itself. It is easy to make the argument that, without tools or tech of some sort, information could not be comprehended. Information is always encoded in some sort of medium. In particular, when we USE information, it has to be encoded. Encoding involves one or more media Media and its surrounding tools are technology. Media involves tools. Tools involve technology, and skill. Things around and about tools that get in our way Tools are our (imperfect) inventions. Tools are developed to be used in certain ways in certain environments with certain materials Metadata The “Application Limitation” in modern OS A new Operating System for Knowledge Work Attention Compass Handle the Metadata problem Handle the "Application Limitation" At the end of the day, when we look at knowledge work, we recognize that four things are involved: attention, information, tasks, and time. They are interrelated and cannot be dealt with in isolation. Many people focus on "Time Management", but time is the junior partner of the four. When we deal with these four things effectively, we can say that we Do Busy Right - lower stress and greater productivity with less waste. Attention Compass is the operating system to Do Busy Right. larry@dobusyright.com linkedin.com/in/larrytribble…
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
1 Top 10 Productivity Tips? NOT - DBR 066 41:22
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הפעל מאוחר יותר הפעל מאוחר יותר רשימות לייק אהבתיThis episode is about what it is I'm trying to do with attention compass. And why I hate current productivity “help”. I developed this AC stuff. I didn't discover it. I didn't invent it. These are the principles, and they produce specific results. I make no bones about the fact that a lot of people went before me did a lot of really good thinking about productivity. AC is derived from Stephen Covey, from David Allen and from a lot of different folks who thought a lot about this and who are well regarded in what's going on. This ain't magic. I'm not some genius, brilliant dude. I just got tired of being told mindset things. “You're just thinking about it the wrong way”, and “change the way you think about it” I love Covey. I love the seven habits, but you gotta take what he says and then figure out how to implement against that. It's not magic, it's not secret sauce. That's one of the great things about David Allen - he's not playing around. He says, “Look, you got a piece of paper in your hand, do this with it.” The principles are important. I'm an academic and a scientist, and so I want them to be true, but at the same time, it's got to be actionable advice. The headline here is stop wasting time and causing yourself a whole bunch of anxiety by listening to people who are giving you less than helpful input. If you want different results, then you have to DO differently, behave differently. Some stuff I tried that didn’t work – day-timer and GTD. These were my first attempt at having my stuff where I needed my stuff to be, but continued to thrash so I kept trying. I still want to keep up and I get intrigued. Here’s what I see when I look out into Productivity Advice land. The pinnacle of productivity advice c. 2025 "Top 10 productivity tips" - anonymous. work from rest, not for rest take regular breaks daily tackle the biggest tasks first designate time daily for emails. keep the main thing, the main thing keep your energy level high. Prepare the night before win the first hour, win the day protect your margins. engage in activity stacking Problem: Everybody's heard that, and apparently most people are still not able to do it. Three problems with the productivity industry One - people say all the same things over and over Two - it's not actionable, it's not doable Three - most of the advice is about mindset Attention compass is really fundamentally different. There's a workflow that will get you on top of this stuff, I want to educate you a little bit on how your brain works with information tasks. I'm going to bring you Information Systems level understanding of information storage, information use, and the value of information in your work and life. What do we do about and with information? I’m going to bring you a software developer’s knowledge about your information tools. If you don't buy what I’m saying, do an experiment. The rules of productivity are pretty simple Reuse everything you can. Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus, don't thrash simple. The problem is the interference that we get from our culture's (incorrect) view of dealing with information and communications and the existing tools. Athleticism as a metaphor for attention Tennis metaphor Physician metaphor Excel metaphor That's what AC does with attention. It gets your attention where it needs to be, so you're not thrashing around daydreaming Other good habits flow out of that ability. All these tips are great – do you have the ‘athleticism’ to address them? I think a lot of people are worn out by all this information. Don't give up. Hit me up on LinkedIn or at larry@dobusyright.com.…
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התחל במצב לא מקוון עם האפליקציה Player FM !
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