Expanding Your Learning

I came across this quote today, and it’s highly relevant to things I’d like to eventually put into here. “Our imagination, by definition, is limited by what we already know.” - Mark Cunningham

Innovation vs. Invention

Last week, I wrote a short post to provide a definition of innovation.  By coincidence, a friend had been having a conversation a week or so prior about the difference between innovation and invention. After giving it some thought, I feel like the distinction rests in the context of the nature of the problem being solved.  More specifically, if the problem already exists or not. Invention would create a solution...

On Elegance

If anyone ever tryed to use the word elegant, in any way, shape or form, to describe me, I’d ask them what they were smoking. Nevertheless, the concept is one that seems to have, inherent in its design, a certain kind of value. From Wikipedia: Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. Einstein points to this: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. It seems...

Do Less Work, Better: AutoIT

It’s no secret that I like to figure out ways to automate the work that I do.  It’s valuable and, often, it can be even more effective. A tool I just came across to do this in Windows is AutoIT.  It’s completely free and very powerful. In 3 hours, I was able to learn how to program it (which is easy if you have any programming experience…I’m a pretty bad programmer), then write a...

Productivity, Projects, and Tasks. Thoughts?

People who care about productivity: Have you noticed that you’re more productive when you list out specific tasks that need to be done, rather than saying “I need to do this project”?  (where a project is an undefined set of tasks) I’ve been noticing that I am a lot more likely to procrastinate if I think of something that needs to be done as a project, rather than the specific tasks that...