Language is what people use when we talk to each other. Trees, it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent.
From the Blog on change
We don’t become better writers by building a better word processing software
We don’t become better writers by building a new or better word processor & we don’t become better data users by focusing on the technology.
4 Years of Noticing
Four years ago this week, I started writing this blog. Writing daily for 4 years was never the goal, the first goal was Christmas 2018.
A Conference for Learning
Learning is not a solo activity. While we all have different experiences and arrive in the moment individually, we learn through interaction.
For Me
When we hear ourselves say, ‘It’s easy’ or ‘It’s common sense’ or some variation of these, perhaps we need to stop ourselves and add ‘for me’.
One More Day of Learning
Think of all the things you done – from the mundane to the exciting – Today is just one more day of learning.
Aid Agencies, Credit Cards, and Data Governance
How could we, as aid agencies, learn from the credit card data governance model? Not pure adoption, but learn from it.
Knowing less than 10%? 20%?
Perhaps it’s time to start behaving like we likely only know about 10-20% about what is happening in our colleagues lives.
Dance Partners No One Wants
Changing plans is never easy. It’s accompanied by shame, anxiety, fear, failure, and sometimes lots of heartache. To change plans requirees us to admit that we were or are wrong in some way. And too often being ‘wrong’ comes with shame.