Agile & Jazz
Software product development and jazz music share a remarkable similarity in their essence: both are grounded in creativity, exploration, and improvisation.
Psychology
The Time Mastery Myth
Do we, influenced by our inherited conception of time, find it challenging to appreciate each moment for its own sake, rather than its usefulness for future goals?
Baseline: A Steady Diet Of Nothing
From straight-edge hardcore punk to modern wellness social media influencers, it’s been a long journey to make clean living cool again.
The Power of Empathetic Leadership
The ability to step into another’s shoes and understand their situation and challenges is a powerful trait that builds trust, faith and cohesion that is essential to the success of teams and organizations.
Remote Work Time Management
The productivity paradox facing remote workers cannot be solved with technology. It’s a management problem.
Healing the Digitally Distressed Mind
It’s not until you schedule an intentional “digital detox” that you’ll see how much compulsive behavior punctuates your life and how much willpower it will take to permanently change it.
Microsoft’s Productivity Research
Microsoft research estimates that knowledge workers spend 60% of their time in meetings, answering emails, or chatting. They call this Digital Debt.
Lossy & Loud: The Modern Music Streaming Experience
What is the relationship between maximizing loudness, psychoacoustics and perceptual lossy compression? Does loudness maximization affect the quality of streaming audio?
Creativity, Models & Archetypes
Comparing AI models to human creative processes, considering why people like certain styles of music, and how lateral thinking tools can help us create more original music.
You Don’t Believe This Sounds
Perhaps the most important bias in our tone is the cognitive one.
Zen Business & Creativity (Or six ways to die as a creative)
A colleague recently told me about an interesting interview he read with Ed Catmull, who just published a book on Pixar. One of the key insights was that he observed how poor management allows organization to smother the creative genius of important company talent. I’ve been fortunate, and intentional enough to avoid traditional organizational structures … Continue reading Zen Business & Creativity (Or six ways to die as a creative)