A regular book update has become one of top popular tweets, thanks to award-winning science author @anilananth. And new followers! So here are some of the great science or math books for a general audience that I have enjoyed 1/
Fermat's Last Theorem (1997) by Simon Singh @SLSingh. More unputdownable than a Lee Child or David Baldacci thriller. All time fav, gifted copies to many mathy youngsters among friends and family 2/
Mar 16, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Here are a few thought-provoking statements and phrases I noted (not all verbatim) from the discussion @fortelabs@visakanv@danshipper had on note-taking and information management as part of secondbrainsummit.com 1/
T: The bottleneck of your creativity is not that one feature in a tool 2/
Feb 8, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Well, I owe this to @david_perell and @AliAbdaal and to their workshop video... A thread on some of the wonderful things I got from it:
The concept of Idea Factory is about combining creativity and a systematic approach 1/
David covers a lot of the what and how of his Collect->Connect->Create framework. Ali shares his idea techniques including what he calls birdsong and coal mining 2/
Mar 14, 2019 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Apropos of my previous thread and a few reactions and responses (thanks, people) I am sharing a few useful links on mid-career transition 1/10
DYL book is a slim book that shows step by step how to apply design thinking principles to career exploration. Avoids self-help as well as simplistic DIY tone. 2/bit.ly/2TCPTWD
Mar 14, 2019 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Between Aug and Dec 2018, I conducted 5 workshops for small groups of experienced managers and consultants titled, "42 is the Beginning: Perspectives on Life, Legacy, and Career". The basic idea had been hatching for a decade! 1/14
Sharing some key points on which it is based, some observations, and additional resources that may interest someone in their late 30s to early 50s or someone coaching such mid-career ponderers. Also a biiig announcement at the end! 2/
Jan 23, 2018 • 34 tweets • 7 min read
Twelve years of trying to grok #strengths approach and helping others apply it to their #career situations has taught a few things that others seem to miss or be misled by other flavors so here is a thread
I like to call it the Buckingham-Gallup strengths approach as elucidated in two books: Now Discover Your Strengths (NDYS) and Go Put Your Strengths to Work (GPYSTW)
Dec 27, 2017 • 34 tweets • 5 min read
Enthused by a teeny-weeny itsy-bitsy achievement of double digit Likes and Retweets of a #Scrabble analogy to #innovation tweetstorm, here are some more Scrabble musings on learning and success (no more Scrabble this year, promise :-))
Novices and casual observers think playing better Scrabble at competitive level is all about a big vocabulary and 'knowing' many words in the sense of knowing their meaning
Dec 26, 2017 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
Some #Scrabble metaphor musings pertaining to #innovation because the analogy came up in a thread with @vgr and @doriantaylor. First some not so humble brag
@vgr @doriantaylor One of my all-time fav parallel play achievements in #Scrabble was placing ABODE adjacent to TOWER. Yes AT BO OW DE ER are allowed words
