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Learning in public - Information management

Today’s #learninginpublic article is about the topic of information management! Information management relevant note: topic - personal efficiency and linked references notes: Managing information is so important as part of topic - personal efficiency that it deserves a dedicated topic. Links to this page Latest articles created or updated Right side of the brain index Start here add value to that first meeting ask a lot, shut up and listen begin with the end in mind chief simplification officer don’t think too much entropy exercise - 5 steps to simplicity focus on your todo list it takes 20 hours to learn a new skill major method meeting nullification most people do not believe something can happen until it already has never assume always test nobody adds complexity as a choice on being a good advisor parallel thinking planning projects POMO read as if you are going to explain it reduce the amount of information coming in remember people’s name separate the thinking from the doing spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity sun list the five why tips method tips to write better emails tools about simplification transparency as a way to reduce bureaucracy Using the six thinking hats we react more to lose than win why what how without emotion there is no long-term memory you can be prisoner of a business model zettelkasten as a knowledge tool Read more...

Learning in public - Tools for teams

Today’s #learninginpublic article is about Tools and techniques to manage teams Tools for team #permanentnote topic - simplification and zt - chief simplification officer Keywords (topics and howto) topic - leading and managing topic - mentoring, advising and coaching how to build a team how to be a better leader Notes, inc. relevant notes Tools to use with the team book - six thinking hats for decisions book - getting things done (GTD) for organisation and transfer of todo book - Wardley Maps to discuss the current landscape Wardley maps are forward-looking, while most business training are backward-looking we can talk of services offered (SD) including doctrine climatic patterns zt - the concept of strategy book - Measure what matters OKR MBOs how to do better meetings a group of tools and techniques for meetings Movie - Close your open door policy and do this instead a short video I did to push one-to-ones instead of an open door policy. Read more...

Learning in public - Cost Categories

Today’s #learninginpublic article is about AWS cost categories Cost categories are a powerful tool for organizing and categorizing costs within an organization. They allow for the creation of rules to combine multiple fields from the cost and usage report (CUR) into a new category, also known as synthetic tags or calculated fields. These calculated fields are derived from other CUR fields, providing a way to extract information without the need for manual tagging. Read more...