Topic
collaboration
- How To Walk And Talk
Kevin Kelly’s “walk and talk” is something I’ve gotta try. At least more often.
- Against Recurring Meetings
I have a bone to pick with recurring meetings. They've become a scourge that's been amplified with fully distributed teams. What may start with clear intent as a space for a team to coordinate continuous work eventual…
- Slack and the Intercompany Communication Layer
Ben Thompson published this piece a few weeks back on the state of Slack up against its competitive market for chat and collaboration, namely Microsoft's Teams product. It covers the history well, dating back to Micro…
- The Arc of Collaboration
In this essay, Kevin Kwok attempts to differentiate between productivity and collaboration, with a focus on how Slack has failed as yet to become the nervous system that combines these things. This take is one of the…
- Weekend Reading: Universal Laws, Tandem, and Computers That Can See
📚 Universal Laws of the World A list of broad laws that apply to all fields. Thoughtful stuff as always from Morgan Housel: Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. In 1955 histori…
- Future of Geo
I presented the day-two keynote to the CFGIS Workshop, talking about what the future of the geography and GIS discipline holds — new technologies for collaboration and sharing, the growth of the geo community an…