Daily Reads:
Richard Merrick strikes again! This time tackling something that I’m working with directly – the GROW model
_But what if we looked at it backwards; what if we used the W.O.R.G model instead this morning?
Will -What is it that the quiet voice, which has not and will not give up on you no matter how many times you ignore it, is asking of you this morning? What might you contribute in your astonishingly brief time here? What is it that your spirit, your soul, or other embodiment of choice is calling out for?
Options—What could you do today that will move you in the direction that voice is asking of you? What if there were no rules, and your coach lent you their officially issued magic wand to remove impediments to exercising your abilities and talent?
Reality – Back to the real world. What are the constraints that are stopping you? How many of them are real, and how many are just convenient? How might you harness them? Which are you going to take on?
Goal—OK. Now, let’s talk about your goal—not the “performance monkey” one, the one that matters to you, not to HR, your line manager, or your shareholders. I can guarantee that pursuing that goal will be inefficient, hard, time-consuming, and one hundred per cent human.
And it will matter.
Ness Labs: We got Ikigai all wrong
Instead of pursuing a grand life purpose, optimize for wanting to wake up in the morning. Live a life of curiosity and connection. Trust that success will be a byproduct of the meaning you find in daily experiences.
Carlota Perez: A long delayed golden age (from June 2022) makes the case as to why it’s taken so long for the "installation period" for ICT last so long, unlike previous revolutions.
Who knew tying shoelaces could be fun? The Double Helix Lacing Tutorial by Prof Shoelace
[!quote] Ideas
Ideas rot if you don’t do something with them. Don’t hoard them. Blog them or otherwise tell people.
-Ed Dumbill
[!quote] What Matters..
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Interconnected: Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents? A scary promising new world awaits.
Ewan McIntosh: Avoid launching your next big idea. At all costs. When you know who you’re talking to, their needs and desires, it suddenly becomes quite simple to communicate clearly with them.
Benedict Evans: The Problem of AI Ethics, and laws about AI
I’d never heard of nor read this story by Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Beregeron