So why are we often so bad at Networking? Steve’s got an opinion (as always):
- We already talk about it too much.
- The incoherence of overdoing the basics.
- Fads distract us.
- Overly narrow focuses.
- Advice written for only one personality.
Review: Ready For Anything, 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done by David Allen
Review: Ready For Anything, 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done by David Allen.
ISBN-10: 0143034545
ISBN-13: 978-0143034544
PROS:
- Advice is presented in intense, “bite-sized” sets of tips that make for easy reading.
- Little wasted space
- Stories help illustrate the points.
- Comes with insightful exercises to get the most out of the advice – and shock you into awareness.
CONS:
- You really have to read “Getting Things Done” to get the most value out of the book.
SUMMARY: An indispensable, insight-filled companion to “Getting Things Done” – just read that book first.
The Somewhat Clogged Culture Pipeline
Serdar had responded to my post that we have replaced culture with economics with one of his usual, thoughtful replies. He notes that our technocratic marketing has driven innovation from the marketplace and we are left with what sells, not what necessarily has value, and that to an extent we have a case of this mediocrity infecting us or becoming a kind of cultural pollution. However out of many of his ideas, one thing comes up I want to talk about: the role of The Pipeline.
The Pipeline is how Stuff Gets To Us. There are Pipelines for food, for clothes, and of course for Culture.
When I say The Pipeline, for the sake of this post, I’m talking the media system we have.
The Pipeline that we have are often built of foundations decades, or even centuries old. Publishing houses, radio stations, movie studios, etc. Huge companies and small companies, various suppliers and interests, and so forth came together to create the giant Culture Engine we have now. Some of it is very old, and it often plays it very safe.