All Entries Tagged With: "existential overhead"
Inventory Makes Work
Lean talks a lot about inventory. A major tenet of Lean is to reduce inventory. Companies that stock up on too much stuff have to maintain that stuff, manage it, and then deal with it when it is no longer useful. This is why companies end up having huge sales at the end of the [...]
Jim Benson | Mar 16, 2010 | Comments 5
Rapture – Training Your Mind for Completion
Don’t strain your brain, paint a train You’ll be singing’ in the rain… – Blondie Your brain is a muscle. As we repeat certain actions, our “muscle memory” becomes comfortable with those actions, and programs itself to anticipate them. As it trains itself to anticipate them, it optimizes for them. This is the basis of [...]
Jim Benson | Jan 15, 2010 | Comments 11
Combating Existential Overhead
Existential Overhead is the price we pay for having too much to do.
Jim Benson | Aug 23, 2009 | Comments 3
