Info refinery #11: Fun work, blue marinate and meditation
Hi, happy summer. How are you doing? Weather has been amazing here in Finland and I have been spending lot of time in nature and camping.I hope you are enjoying summer too. Here is this weeks edition:
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🤯 What have I learned this week
Work should be fun: Can you just do what you need to do, take it easy, and get almost the exact same result? (link)
You will fail: Just be bigger than your failures (link).
Jar of life: First things first. Keep a sharp focus on important things and fill your life with those first (link).
😮 Interesting things
Most functional city: Helsinki presents its data strategy in order to anticipate the need for services, on the people's terms. Amazing vision (link).
Meditation is bad for companies: Practicing meditation brings calm and acceptance which might make you less motivated at work (link).
Marinating kind of works: Amazing video about the science of marinating meats. Marinating works only in the outer layer (caused by the acidity of the marinate), as can be seen by the experiment of adding dye to the marinate (link).
🍴 Food for thought
Imperfect and done is better than perfect and not done
📊 Visualization of the week
🧠 What’s on my mind
Almost all modern work requires digital organization. It is a critical skill if you don’t want your life to be full of chaos.
Think about it, you can be the best in the world to do one task, but if you fail to manage the workload around it, your work won’t be all that impressive. And the other way around, even if you are average doing the task, but have skills to manage the workload, you will impress many people.
Starting projects/tasks is easy, finishing them is more challenging.
“Problem of not finishing actions is actually a failure to continue.”
- Dan Charnas
Many reasons can cause these situations, such as:
Fear and anger caused by complexity or too big tasks
Fatigue caused by stealing time from ourselves (shorten lunch break to work more)
Trying to do too much and not being honest with the time it will take to do something
Distractions in every corner
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Failing to finish tasks/projects, leads to having more work in process which needs to be managed. Making the whole work more complicated.
In an ideal world, we finish one task and forget about it, right? In reality for big projects, these never seem to end. You do something and then something else comes. Projects that don’t seem to ever finish can drain our energy.
Why are schools/companies not putting more attention on teaching and practicing this?
I would benefit from such courses. Meanwhile, I will need to continue to read about the topic, change my habits, practice, and hope to find a good way to avoid chaos and have a finishing mentality.
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Have a nice day!
Jose