The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is another one:

I. Cannot. Stop. Talking. About. This. One.

Ryder Carroll has been working on this idea for a while. I got first introduced to it through fine journal maker Leuchtturm1917.

Carroll has come up with a method that makes paper journaling flexible and multi-purpose. When I have used paper journals, I always faced some challenges that are intrinsic to the medium, but Carroll’s method allows you to:

• document experiences, to-dos, notes, and scheduled events
• make changes to items, even when using a pen
• have a scheduled events view for things that happen at a moment in time
• make the content searchable through an index

He explains the basic tenets on his website, but I definitely recommend his namesake book, which is not that dry and has some entertaining, hearth warming stories as well.

To me, keeping notes about my daily meetings, and having the ability to draw, as well as write by hand, is fundamental. And while I am fully digital and on the cloud, I still crave the connection to a page.

You can buy the original Bullet journals, but I’ll confess that I don’t. I buy “Artist Loft” journals from Michaels. They run for half as much. I get their premium version with dotted and numbered pages, two page markers, a back pocket for storing loose leaves, and a pen loop.

You know that person at the office who is constantly busy, never has time to take on any task, supposedly never takes any time off, but it is unclear what and if gets anything done ever?

I have met a few. I also misjudged a few, reason why I adopted the premise from a good friend to be more curious, assuming that if I think they do nothing, it is probably because I don’t understand their jobs.

But there are some individuals who don’t pass this test either. They are usually, more than ill-intentioned slackers, a victim of the requests from their bosses, or just of their nature, to pick up one menial task after another, until their day is full of them. Most of the time they haven’t been educated on the purpose of each action, and they cannot decide (once again, either by accident or by design) which tasks are important and which are not, and how to change their behavior to achieve the same goal. They are the consequence of years of being told that are not getting paid to think.

My favorite quote of today comes from an unlikely place. Attributed to a sermon, delivered by H.H. Williams, Bishop of Carlyle (Church of England).

The solution for this mindless running on the hamster wheel? Inject PURPOSE. Let every single person in the organization know why are they supposed to do what they are doing, and let them decide on the priorities.

I. Cannot. Stop. Talking. About. This. One.

Ryder Carroll has been working on this idea for a while. I got first introduced to it through fine journal maker Leuchtturm1917.

Carroll has come up with a method that makes paper journaling flexible and multi-purpose. When I have used paper journals, I always faced some challenges that are intrinsic to the medium, but Carroll’s method allows you to:

• document experiences, to-dos, notes, and scheduled events
• make changes to items, even when using a pen
• have a scheduled events view for things that happen at a moment in time
• make the content searchable through an index

He explains the basic tenets on his website, but I definitely recommend his namesake book, which is not that dry and has some entertaining, hearth warming stories as well.

To me, keeping notes about my daily meetings, and having the ability to draw, as well as write by hand, is fundamental. And while I am fully digital and on the cloud, I still crave the connection to a page.

You can buy the original Bullet journals, but I’ll confess that I don’t. I buy “Artist Loft” journals from Michaels. They run for half as much. I get their premium version with dotted and numbered pages, two page markers, a back pocket for storing loose leaves, and a pen loop.