Attention Deficit Trait

Dr. Edward Hallowell has coined the term ADT. “It’s sort of like the normal version of attention deficit disorder. But it’s a condition induced by modern life, in which you’ve become so busy attending to so many inputs and outputs that you become increasingly distracted, irritable, impulsive, restless and, over the long term, underachieving.”

 

Tapping the quiet genius

An internal stock market of ideas is itself a great idea, this nytimes story reports (link via tompeters.com). The gist is captured in a nice paraphrase from Tim O’Reilly: Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but who has the most compelling “architecture of participation.”

 

Customers don’t know what they want

Joel on Software expounds on customers: Customers Don’t Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want..

 
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