Tag: management
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Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
The whole cult of time and task management actually serves the opposite of its purpose for me, personally: It makes me feel guilty, as if I’m putting off becoming more efficient with my time. Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm…
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Notes on managing technology decisions
Over at the Knight News Challenge blog, I’ve contributed a short list of tips on dealing with developers and choosing a platform for your project: “3. Hire human beings, not a programming language or Web framework. Unless you’re doing the programming yourself, stay focused on your end goal and steer clear of mandating how the…
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Innovation is easy: Hand the camera to the stuntman
So the wife and I were watching Bourne Ultimatum this weekend on DVD. (Yes, yes, I know, a few of you still know me as the former film student who was inspired to make movies because I knew I could do better than Lethal Weapon 2, but I still like a good action flick, OK?)…
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Carnival folo
Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.…
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Wide vs. Deep – An Entirely Other Day
A great essay on the differences between management and programmers. You can sub out ‘programmers’ for any narrow-but-deep job description; ‘reporter’ fits this often, while editors and higher-ups play the manager role. Wide vs. Deep – An Entirely Other Day
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Dilbert – September 21, 2007
“Wally, did you get those cost estimates I asked for last week?” “No, I need constant supervision.” Dilbert – September 21, 2007