Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently UPDATE: We’ve written an entire book on this topic! Read it online: Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters . Agile started off
How to run a mastermind group In the summer of 2014, I sent Paul Jarvis and Jarrod Drysdale an email, asking if they wanted to start a mastermind group together. Shortly after, we started meeting for
Understanding the Kano Model – A Tool for Sophisticated Designers by Jared M. Spool Thanks to Sciencelakes for the Danish translation to this article.Thanks to Vitaly Mijiritsky for the Hebrew transla
If they wanted to kill him, he knows how they’d do it. He’ll see it at night sometimes, lying in bed, eyes shut, mind spooked, the scene he’s long feared unfolding in the darkness. A barrage of bullet
Johan Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Laesende lille pige, 1900 “I read books to read myself,” Sven Birkerts wrote in The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age . Birkerts’s book, which tur
cary-anne olsen-landis Mar 23, 2017 · 7 min read The design team comes up with a list of user needs for your product. The engineering team comes to the table with a different set of features. The mana
Summer 2020 Newsletter Looking Towards the Light After Living in the Dark For Seyha, the past four years back at home, after her trafficking ordeal ended, have been a whirlwind. First, meeting her hus
For the last year or so, it’s been the best-kept concentration secret among young people: If you need to study, then it’s a lo-fi hip-hop playlist you seek. It’s a phenomenon born on YouTube, which is
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you’ve never heard of, or whose sense you’re unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word — like example , or sport , or mag
If you do any form of exercise, you’ve probably heard about Tabata training one too many times. But have you ever wondered where the heck Tabata came from ? and how it became such a big buzzword in th
I believe in simple, clean, fast, purpose built websites. I will not be clogging up the pipes with vapid stock photos or meaningless cruft. The websites I build have one purpose — information delivery
Email’s beginning was perfectly unremarkable: “QWERTYUIOP.” A keyboard burp. Something your cat might type. A nothing message sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to test the system. But email has stayed, an
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Recently I became aware of some habits that slow me down and occasionally break the flow when I’m behind my Mac. I began to document and gradually replace them with more productive new habits. While I
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Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book. The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be l
Last year, I publicized my reading plan for the year. Overall, I’m very happy with the number of books I managed to read (20) and the quality of what I read . There are some aspects of the plan I wish
Roden Issue 022 December, 28, 2018 A New Mailing List, Goodbye Instagram?, Future Book Hello Again Roden-ites! Have you made it through? Through the holidays? We are so close. Hold on, just a little f
A Typographic Christmas Updates for iA Writer 5.2, Part I The next update of iA Writer does some extreme typographic acrobacy. It comes with three variable fonts which give us 1000s of grades. This al
Who is this for?: People who want to improve their writing and coherent thinking, who are invested in so-called knowledge work and who connect ideas. This suits academics, authors and writers, journal
UNDER THE INFLUENCE ON FAILURE AND BEAUTIFUL QUIET: READING JACK GILBERT IN TBILISI By Bethany Marcel It was unfamiliar. The thin dogs roaming the city. The tart-sweet taste of pomegranate fresh from
I recently began using a Bullet Journal . Longtime readers who recall my going paperless days might find this odd. My going paperless experiment was just that–an experiment to see how far I could go w
L ook around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don’t read at all, but hunch over video
From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism. Please join me, then, for a detailed
A Guest Post by Matt Gemmell Matt Gemmell is a thriller writer from the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. He wrote his recent book, TOLL — which is out this week — using Ulysses. We invited him to share
L ate in the summer of 2012, while walking his coffee groves on a hillside rising above Santa Ana, El Salvador, Mario Mendoza Corleto noticed something unusual: the leaves on some of his…
Nieman Journalism Lab is running its annual predictions for the next year in journalism . I wound up pitching something about audio platforms that is weirdly optimistic about Spotify? but for a hot minute, I tried to talk Jason (and he tried to talk me) into writing something about the new patron…
This website turned ten this year. I've been writing on justinjackson.ca since 2008 . For all those years, I've used WordPress. But, recently I decided to switch to a new CMS. I had three main objecti
Paul Zimmerman, the longtime Sports Illustrated NFL writer, died on Nov. 1, 2018, at the age of 86. Andy Benoit wrote this appreciation of Zimmerman, gained through his reading of “The New Thinking Ma
Last January, I was broke. I lived in a car, and that month I had to choose between paying my cell phone bill or buying food. Two years before that I was a freelance photographer in Chicago, but walke
Amber Case May 3, 2018 · 5 min read Click here to view video When “ we are all cyborgs ” debuted in 2010, smartphones were barely mass market and social media was a fraction of its current size. Less
In version 3.7 of Cultured Code’s task management app, Things ( iPhone and iPad ) has added support for deep Shortcuts capabilities alongside the release of Siri Shortcuts with iOS 12, as well as land
Habits vs. Workflows September 11th, 2018 · 25 comments Productive Pondering As I transition from the slow freedom of summer to the constrained energy of fall, my thoughts have been gravitating back t
1, Radical Honesty. Not everyone is comfortable with the truth. But, we will not do our best work if don’t say what we mean. Once you get used to having the difficult conversations, they become less d
After years of escaping into music, writer Mark Richardson finds out what it feels like to hear no sound at all. Illustrations by Tallulah Fontaine Immersive portable audio—the ability to be out in th
One evening last week, I was sitting on my front stoop waiting for a friend to come over. I brought a book out with me, but instead of reading I just sat there and let my senses take in the scene. I d
My training log entry the day before the 2018 Barkley Marathons read: “Once that cigarette is lit, I’m going to race my little brains out. Give it all my all, and give it hell.” I’ve never been one to
Music Subscriptions and Vinyl My wife and family bought me a record player for my birthday. It was an incredibly thoughtful gift. For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with music. As a kid
E ven though more and more companies are getting comfortable with remote work, the field of product management still seems to push back against this trend quite forcefully. There is a general sense th
Nike's quest to break the two-hour marathon did not go as planned. But when you're pushing the limits of human performance, nothing ever does. On the night of May 5, 2017, Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s