How does your team treat 'the messenger'? Do you train them, ignore them, or -gulp- ‘shoot’ them?

How can two ‘rights’ make a ‘wrong’?

Find out in the inaugural post of The Knowledge-Worker's Toolkit!

#knowledgework #systemsthinking

https://kwt.stuttaford.me/p/see-the-system-you-are-in

Soooo, I'm trying something new 😅 I'm writing a newsletter!

It's called The Knowledge Worker's Toolkit" (KWT).

It's about the #systemsthinking / #knowledgework / #sociotechnical topics pictured below.

https://kwt.stuttaford.me

Please subscribe, and please share with your people!

"The fear has been especially intense for knowledge workers, many of whom worry that their daily activities may not be as rarefied as the world thinks — but for which the world pays billable hours."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html #ai #knowledgework #replacement

"We cannot accurately describe the way we do work if we do not feel psychologically safe enough to be honest about it."

https://psychsafety.co.uk/psychological-safety-work-as-imagined-vs-work-as-done/ #knowledgework #safety

"We cannot accurately describe the way we do work if we do not feel psychologically safe enough to be honest about it."

https://psychsafety.co.uk/psychological-safety-work-as-imagined-vs-work-as-done/ #knowledgework #safety

Is this really how your company’s work works?

#organizationaldesign #knowledgework

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/in-spite-of-the-org-chart/

"Deadlines Don’t Cut It: Stress Levels Remain Unchanged, Regardless of Timelines"

"Using a metaphor, if you are under heavy rain all the time, if one day the rain is a little heavier, it would not make much difference to you because you are already wet to the bone."

#KnowledgeWork

https://neurosciencenews.com/stress-deadlines-23096/

"Gloat all you want about never needing to hire a copywriter or an illustrator again, but I'm actually a lot more confident that their specific skillsets are harder, and possibly impossible, to replace than the glorified Slack mods that are paid six-figure salaries to manage them."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-just-productivity #ai #management #knowledgework

Currently listening to a very interesting discussion about #chatGPT and #knowledgework organized by @simondueckert

https://community.cogneon.de/t/40-knowledgejam-generative-ki-chatgpt-co-meilenstein-in-der-wissensarbeit-ckj40/3834/2?u=simon.dueckert

Loads of folks are talking about the unrelenting news around ChatGPT updates and seemingly never-ending layoffs.

We didn't plan it that way, but @searls dove deep over the past week exploring how you can really tell if AI threatens your knowledge worker job, and that post is live.

There's a glimmer of hope here, with ideas around what you can do to limit the impact by increasing your uniques.

https://link.testdouble.com/does-ai-threaten-your-job

#AI #ChatGPT #KnowledgeWork

Work tweet: I’ve been trying this new approach this week of using Teams, Office, Outlook etc all via the browser on my work laptop, rather than their desk top equivalents.

I’m also using the side-panel of Edge to run apps in part of the screen only.

I’m hoping this kind of approach cuts down on the ‘friction’ of constant app switching and context shifting.

Any “knowledge workers” got any tip tips?

#knowledgework

Blogged:
Meetings may be part of the work, but that's not enough
To improve knowledge work @elizayer is right about meetings, but what about communities and networks? More evidence is needed. #KnowledgeWork #PKMastery #opensource #100DaysToOffload
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/28/meetings-may-be-part-of-the-work-but-thats-not-enough/

Blogged:
Finding the real work that meetings are good at
How can meetings better support collective learning? #KnowledgeWork #PKMastery #100DaysToOffload
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/2023/02/27/finding-the-real-work-that-meetings-are-good-at/

Taking the risk of sounding repetitive, @obsidian is such an amazing #app for #knowledgeWork. There were few digital tools that really changed what I do in life, ObsidianMD is such a game changer that also after 2 years of using it, I feel like having to celebrate it every 1-2 weeks. 🎉

"Solitude is out of fashion – possibly because of its association with the physical and emotional effects of loneliness – but any business that values creativity should be considering how it can get better at facilitating solitude."

https://paulitaylor.com/2022/05/06/the-case-against-collaboration/ #knowledgework #creativity

Odin's articles, a personal journey of note-taking, and more!

https://odinhalvorson.substack.com/p/halfway-through-february?sd=pf

#WritingCommunity #Writing #Words #Writer #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritersofMastodon #Author #Tips #Publishing #Poetry #Poetics #Life #Newsletter #Dreams #NiklasLuhmann #Zettelkasten #NoteTaking #Notes #Knowledge #Knowledgework #KnowledgeGarden #SelfImprovement #SelfHelp #SelfBetterment #Ideas #Academic #College #School #Learning #Growth #Education

"Because most people most of the time don't reason, then decide. They decide, and then reason."

https://www.geepawhill.org/2023/01/20/changing-the-frame/ #decisions #knowledgework

Why Anytype is going to replace Notion in my life: https://medium.com/predict/why-anytype-is-the-future-of-note-taking-b75a98688192?sk=d82364ff864a5d98e27be6a0a14c4371

#Notion #Anytype #Knowledge #Apps #NoteTaking #Notes #DeepLearning #Knowledgework #Programs #Web3 #Security

This may upset you to hear.

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/heres-why-agile-isnt-working-for-you/ #agile #knowledgework

Notion, Obsidian — the tools don’t matter as much as the information retrieval design.

https://medium.com/illumination/harnessing-your-metadata-for-note-taking-and-profit-bdb09c48ea9e?sk=515eb65f634fae09ea9f3889a910a0dc

#Notes #NoteTaking #Knowledge #Learning #Tools #Knowledgework #KnowledgeGarden #Zettelkasten #Obsidian #Notion #Tools #MLIS #LIbraryScience #Information #InformationScience #Library