The Quiet Workflow Revolution iqbal 01 September 2024 Starting a few years ago, ads for a web-based software start-up called Monday.com began to show up everywhere online. A subsequent S.E.C. ... Read more
Should This Meeting Have Been an Email? iqbal 01 September 2024 In the context of knowledge work there are two primary ways to communicate. The first is synchronous , which requires all parties to be i... Read more
Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet iqbal 01 September 2024 Earlier this week, Neil Gaiman was interviewed on Icelandic television . Around the twenty-five minute mark of the program, the topic tur... Read more
Standing Up to Technology iqbal 01 September 2024 In the fall of 2016, I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that pushed back against the conventional wisdom that social media was im... Read more
On Metrics and Resolve iqbal 01 September 2024 One of the least understood components of my time-block planner is the “daily metrics” box that tops every pair of planning pages. Given... Read more
On Slow Writing iqbal 01 September 2024 Someone recently forwarded me an essay from a blogger named Henrik Karlsson . It opens with an admission: “When I started writing onlin... Read more
On Disruption and Distraction iqbal 01 September 2024 Disruption and disorder have always stalked the human condition. This reality sometimes plays out on the grand scale, as in the brutality ... Read more