YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: passion

Book recommendation: The Monk and the Riddle

I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if you [...]

The Shift Index to motivated smartypants: “Get Better Faster,” people

The Shift Report from the Deloitte Innovation Center for the Edge just came out, and some of the findings were fascinating. The executive summary and the findings make well reasoned, intuitive sense. What’s great about it is that a lot of it fits directly in line with what we’re envisioning with Bettr@. I feel like [...]