About The Blogger
Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. Benjamin blogs about productivity, communication and technology in the context of business.
Drucker’s Life as a Knowledge Worker
I just stumbled upon this great article in inc.com by Peter Drucker: My Life as a Knowledge Worker I’m a huge Drucker fan, and this was a great read. Drucker summarises the seven experiences and his seven learnings from them: “I would strive for perfection, even though, as I well knew, it would surely always [...]
ThinkingRock is 2 good!
I’m absolutely buzzing today; I’ve started using ThinkingRock Version 2 on my mac. Having an effective tool to track what needs doing is critical to living successfully; ThinkingRock is that tool for me – see: a good tool is hard to find and get laddered with ThinkingRock. For those new to ThinkingRock, you might want [...]
You Live, You Learn – Learn to Learn, Learn to Live
A mad, but good week so far. I’ve done some new things this week and have been helping some other people learn too. That started me thinking about the learning process and the stages on the way to becoming competent at something, learning about learning…
Benjamin’s Back!
An apt title for Easter. So, I’m back from my first off-line-time of the year to find one of my posts picked up on Lifehack.org! A few thousand extra hits on the blog, links, comments and messages from as far afield as Japan and India. A very pleasant Easter present, thank you guys! I think [...]
Bang Goes March and The First Law of Blogging
How about this for the first law of blogging? “The number of blog posts is inversely proportional to the number of things going off in the blogger’s life”. I am hoping for some semblance of order to start to return by the end of this week, so that I can finish off a couple of [...]
Are you having a 007 year?
Here we are, almost quarter of the way through the year. Is it a Bond-style 007 year? it is 2007 after all! Is there adventure? How is the mission going? Making progress on goals?
See yourself on reflection
At the start of my career, early on in my professional education, I was trained to be a reflective practioner. This turned out to be a great foundation. Since then I have spent much of my working life in “two strikes and you’re out” corporate cultures, where it is ok to make a mistake, but [...]
