Not ready for final release. Still buggy. Life is perpetual beta.

Rapid cognition, AKA gut feel. Making snap judgments, often valid, on the basis of a few data points. Popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in a book of the same name.

Great way to narrate your work to enable others to learn from your example.

Trying to cure all problems at once, often with a single tool. Don’t even try.

It’s a nonlinear, interconnected world and you will never figure it out.

The inability to read the writing on the wall.

Rigid unit of learning, generally expressed in hours or days and ‘led’ by an instructor. Opposite: ‘Just enough.’

Incentives, targets, measurements, and other directional signals. These drive organizational behavior. Coined by Art Kleiner in Who Really Matters.

Disorder. Closed systems decay over time. Margaret Wheatley has proposed that this is why scientific managers are so hung up on control.

Why you cannot step in the same river twice. Nothing is permanent; everything flows. Also, the euphoria that accompanies flowing in sync with your reality.