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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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