Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

Rest Those Weary Bones

Stress is part of the improvement process. You need to work out to get stronger, you need to study to learn.

The problem is not enough rest to allow the stress to make you better.

Exhaustion is not too much stress, but too little rest.

Where the Caribou Roam

Tradition is defaulting to other people’s decisions.

If you don’t know their assumptions or constraints and you think it can be done better than there is a place for you to be clear with yours and try.

Detecting Ideas Better

Thinking deeply on a problem that creates little value is a waste of time.

Thinking narrow on a problem that needs room to run is pointless.

Thinking wide and thinking deep are great strategies, but only when deployed correctly.

Solving for X

Solving the issue at hand feels like you are being productive but it might be putting a plaster on a wound.

Should you be solving the cause of the problem rather than the symptom?

What an opportunity

The challenge of creativity is not having everything you need, but not having everything you need and figuring out how to make it work.

Why and How

Your boss asks a request that makes no sense, you want to ask why?

This can be challenging.

Instead ask how?

This makes them have to understand what they are asking and you might then get the why you were looking for.

Motion vs Action

Motion (Thinking) feels like you are doing something productive and moving you towards your goal.

Action (Doing) actually gets you there but is way more risky because you can fail.

Choose action over motion.

Invert

Invert your thinking to avoid disaster.

Instead of focusing on the big win, what is the big fail that will most hurt.

Now focus on stopping the big fail.

What about those others

Context and nuance matter.

If someone success did x, it doesn’t mean it was correct, is there people that did x and failed.

If someone does y and fails, it doesn’t mean that y isn’t right.

There is more to success and failure than one variable.

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