"This guidance probably should have been Chapter 1 of our Politics 101 series. It’s foundational. It’s a HUGE problem for many professionals, particularly young – and dare we say it, naïve – professionals. So many young people say, “I don’t ‘play politics.’” The more savvy folks around them think, that’s good, because this isn’t a ‘game’ you can ‘play.’ "
2) Improve human memory, reduce dependence on high-latency offboard storage (paper, web)
4) The language of organizational models/patterns. The book "Key Management Models" has a good overview, http://www.google.com/search?q=key%20management%20models. The 3rd edition has 75 org models which help when designing the model de jour.
"One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to. Courage is one of the things that Shannon had supremely. You have only to think of his major theorem. He wants to create a method of coding, but he doesn't know what to do so he makes a random code. Then he is stuck. And then he asks the impossible question, `What would the average random code do?' He then proves that the average code is arbitrarily good, and that therefore there must be at least one good code. Who but a man of infinite courage could have dared to think those thoughts? That is the characteristic of great scientists; they have courage. They will go forward under incredible circumstances;"
>’” The more savvy folks around them think, that’s good, because this isn’t a ‘game’ you can ‘play.’ "
Politics strikes me as something very atavistic. I avoid people who play politics at all costs - I simply can't imagine anything good coming from them.
Unfortunately, as Pericles said, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." (Sometimes also attributed to Trotsky)
http://www.manager-tools.com/2013/04/politics-101-chapter-3-...
http://www.manager-tools.com/2013/05/politics-101-chapter-3-...
"This guidance probably should have been Chapter 1 of our Politics 101 series. It’s foundational. It’s a HUGE problem for many professionals, particularly young – and dare we say it, naïve – professionals. So many young people say, “I don’t ‘play politics.’” The more savvy folks around them think, that’s good, because this isn’t a ‘game’ you can ‘play.’ "
2) Improve human memory, reduce dependence on high-latency offboard storage (paper, web)
http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Main_Page
3) GTD for Hackers, https://gtdfh.branchable.com
4) The language of organizational models/patterns. The book "Key Management Models" has a good overview, http://www.google.com/search?q=key%20management%20models. The 3rd edition has 75 org models which help when designing the model de jour.
5) Richard Hamming, "You and Your Research", 1986, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
"One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to. Courage is one of the things that Shannon had supremely. You have only to think of his major theorem. He wants to create a method of coding, but he doesn't know what to do so he makes a random code. Then he is stuck. And then he asks the impossible question, `What would the average random code do?' He then proves that the average code is arbitrarily good, and that therefore there must be at least one good code. Who but a man of infinite courage could have dared to think those thoughts? That is the characteristic of great scientists; they have courage. They will go forward under incredible circumstances;"