I think this is the first time in a long while I've had too many ideas and topics to write about. Looking ahead, I think my content pipeline is set for the next 3, maybe 4 months.
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What's made a big difference: putting in the work to go deep into a body of work (yay Accelerated Expertise + The Oxford Handbook of Expertise) and then generating a lot of experiments to do.
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To be fair — some of it is a side effect of being able to interrogate tacit knowledge in a useful manner.
One example: for a couple of years now I've gotten good at organisational design, but I've never written about it before.
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This is actually rather odd — the people who know me, or know the organisations/companies I've helped build, often ask about the skill. My old boss realised that org design was a thing after watching me work. But I've never had a useful vocabulary for articulating it.
Until now.
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I won't say that I'm really good at it, by the way. I know better people when I see them. But I'm at least a B+ here.
And I think — thanks to cognitive task analysis — I've finally found a way to articulate it that might be usable for others.
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A taster in the thread below (watch this space, or the blog, for updates):
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This is actually a good example of a tweet thread that contains ideas that are all correct but are not actually useful.
I can assure you, as an org designer, this is NOT how good org designers actually think about incentives. twitter.com/SahilBloom/sta…
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