Become a learning worker by creating intermediate packets.

By narrowing the scope of my work and shipping more often, my knowledge work is more effective and valuable.

🧵 A thread with 7 reasons to create intermediate deliverables.
🔗 Link to my 2,300-word piece on the topic 👇

What are intermediate packets?

Simply put, the smallest publishable part of knowledge work.

Think outline versus email, notes versus blog post. By breaking up work into its parts and saving those, we can become much more effective.

Long version

I create intermediate packets because they help me to:

• Provide value more often
• Become interruption-proof
• Create in any circumstance
• Stay motivated
• Help my future self
• Get more and better feedback
• Avoid heavy lifts

Intermediate packets help me provide value more often.

As a knowledge worker, I only create value when my output is used by someone else. I'm in the business of ideas, but if nobody uses them, my work is useless.

Shorter bursts of output give me more opportunities to help.

Intermediate packets make me interruption- proof.

Working with knowledge means using your fragile working memory. The fuller that memory, the more impactful distractions.

Narrowing the work scope and externalizing it, it's easier to return to your work after an interruption.

SORO SOKE IDEOLOGICAL SOMERSAULT:

Fellow Nigerians & Citizens of the World, there's a crisis that must be attended to IF we don't want our generation to go off the radar completely.
I've seen a clear Ideological somersault with our Soro Soke mindset. Abuse me later but READ👇

In a way, I'm now very happy that #EndSARS crisis happened. Avoidable crisis IF Govt had been responsive & responsible enough to listen to the pulse of Nigerians irrespective of political affiliation before this event. Avoidable crisis IF Soro Soke folks had known when to stop!

Happy because the #EndSARS crisis had made some things clearer. It has separated boys from men in a way. It has exposed pseudo-intelligence & exposed the costly assumption that Social Media folks had.
So let me narrow down this ideological somersault to what we can learn from:

1. You have no advantage over those who are PARTISAN if you keep claiming being non-partisan.

You will keep running away from your shadow by thinking you as a human being is actually non-partisan or assuming you have no political sentiment.
In reality, there's nothing like that!

Here's is how to know where your political sentiment falls yakata into. Once you see your ability to suppress the error of a particular political party & amplify their success, that's where your sentiment lies.
ANYONE that's quick enough to AMPLIFY the error, you know the answer!

[Thread] Mobile Launch Platforms are some of my favourite pieces of ground support equipment, so here's a closer look at the Saturn V MLPs with some images from the archive.

The first MLP began construction in July of 1963. The first image here is from late 1963 shows the construction areas just north of the VAB site for MLPs 1 & 2. The second image is a closer look at one of the MLPs in early 1964.

These two images from early 1964 show part of the mount mechanisms that would support the MLPs as they were constructed. Just the size of these alone starts to put things in to perspective!

As the first tower began to grow taller in May of 1964, the first Crawler Transporter (Image 3 and foreground of image 2) began to take shape.

A view of the launch platform itself as it was still being built in July of 1964. The launch platform covered an area close to half an acre.

Tabletop RPG storytime:

Milui is an orc lady abandoned at birth. Nobody except her parents would know why she was abandoned, but nowadays at a height of seven feet and shoulders broader even most orc males, it might have been because she's a freak.
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Still, she was found by two wonderful elves who raised her as their own as best as they could. She had trouble fitting in at the often elitist Elven Society, but she did her best to make up for her muscular build by exploring typically feminine hobbies.
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In particular she learned to create make-up herself, and was always trying to learn about how to make new shades, and new ways to make and use it. She decided to explore the world and expand her knowledge of cosmetology beyond the Elven guilds' knowledge.
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In that process she befriended a group of adventurers with which she joined forces. On their travels, they found a campsite ravaged and abandoned. As they tried to figure out what had happened, the Cause sprang upon them.
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A youngling green dragon. Not fully grown, but more than powerful enough to defeat a group of seasoned adventurers. Milui saw it about to attack her friends, channeling her bottled up anger into an explosive force of strength, and hacked into the beast with her sword.
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BREAKING: The EU’s chief negotiator has told MEPs that negotiations on a post-Brexit deal could continue until Wednesday but no further.

2/ According to sources present, Michel Barnier also warned the UK that a deal would not be approved by member states if it pressed ahead with passing the Internal Market and the Finance Bills into law.

3/ He told the European Parliament’s Brexit coordination committee this morning that US President Elect Joe Biden was also “sensitive” to any impact of UK law on the Good Friday Agreement.

4/ Mr Barnier told MEPs the talks were in the “endgame” and that there would have to be a decision on whether or not there was to be an agreement by Thursday.

5/ He said if there was no deal then the European Commission would be ready “to react immediately” with contingency plans, according to sources present.

I'd like to say a few things in tribute to the brilliant musical director & vocal coach Kate Young, who died far too young last week. Even fellow musical theatre folk may not know what a trail-blazing talent she was, so here's my story of Kate (thread)/1

I first met Kate at a rehearsal for Wayne Sleep's 1983 touring dance show DASH, for which I was composer. What struck me first about her (apart from the poetic lilt of her warm, Edinburgh accent) was the impeccable care she was taking playing piano for dance rehearsals /2

(believe me, & I mean no disrespect to lovely dancers & choreographers but playing piano for dance sessions isn't called REPETITEUR for nothing and many repetiteurs switch to auto-pilot at the keys. Kate never did. Her playing was always immaculate)/3

We hit it off immediately & had long, ranty discussions about how we wanted to change musical theatre, like young people do. We had specific aims to do with the way singing was taught & shaped for the stage. /4

We wanted the singing to be much more text & meaning-focused, for actors to have the confidence to sing as well as trained singers & for the sound to be more nuanced, more plural in style & less belty & samey (tbh not sure we won that battle..) /5

One of the root causes of the Govt's Brexit difficulties is that it has overpromised.

We can, it is said, reclaim our sovereignty, with the freedom to make our own rules, and, at the same time, retain many of the advantages of EU membership. 1/14

The reality is that we cannot.

Unless we agree to certain standards and rules (and there is scope to argue about which rules), there will be borders, and checks, and tariffs. 2/

There will always be a relationship between rights (eg tariff free access to EU/UK markets) and responsibilities (eg abiding by level-playing field commitments). 3/

A 'good' outcome for the UK, in the Govt's view, would involve access gains (eg fewer border checks) without corresponding obligations (or with weak, or difficult-to-enforce obligations). 4/

The chances of this sort of 'good' outcome are low. The EU looks likely, in the face of the threats in the Internal Market Bill and now the Finance Bill, to insist on rigorous governance provisions. [Also, such provisions are the foundation of the single market.] 5/

this banana is too straight

1. Political: UCC likely to see huge protests from non-majority communities, perhaps equal to or more intense than land reforms and agri reforms protests.

2. If Govt stands firm - different matter. If not, yet another capitulation and significant loss of political currency.

3. Also with the likely fallout and necessary dealing with it, certain that no currency will remain to push any further agenda related to pro-Hindu constitutional changes - likely even in 2024+

4. Electoral: Likely massive favour amongst Hindus because somehow UCC is thought of as being good for Hindus.

5. Absolute polarization of non-Hindus guaranteed.

The brilliance of the one and only private algorithmic stable coin in crypto..... A thread. 1/ $XHV $xUSD

There has never been a private algorithmic stable coin before.

The idea that you can store money in crypto, privately, without volatility, is a new concept. $XHV $xUSD 2/

Previously, if you wanted to hide money in crypto, you were subject to the volatility of bitcoin, and you might wake up in the morning to find you're down 45%. Any stable coin option, has never been private, so stable coins have been limited. $XHV $xUSD 3/

All that changed the moment the Haven Protocol introduce their algorithmic stable coin $xUSD backed by their $XHV coin. It gives people a way of storing money outside the volatility of the crypto market, while remaining completely private. 4/

$xUSD is created by a brilliant mint and burn of $XHV, inside its own wallet, without needing an active market to trade on for liquidity. Just owning XHV, provides you the liquidity needed to jump into xUSD. XHV becomes the door way to and from xUSD anytime you need it. /5

Yet one more reason to reject those anti Hindu/anti Sanatani/anti Vedic so called (trad/tradcells/pseudo trad) Pandits & guardian of Dharma, who believe women don’t have right to study Vedas 👇:-
#Vedas #RigVeda #Hinduism #Hindu #SanatanDharma #Women

Rig Veda 1.164.41 (1st Mandal, 164th Sukta, 41st Mantra) says :-

गौ॒रीर्मि॑माय सलि॒लानि॒ तक्ष॒त्येक॑पदी द्वि॒पदी॒ सा चतु॑ष्पदी।
अ॒ष्टाप॑दी॒ नव॑पदी बभू॒वुषी॑ स॒हस्रा॑क्षरा पर॒मे व्यो॑मन् ॥

Word-Meaning: -
हे स्त्री-पुरुषो ! जो (एकपदी) एक वेद का अभ्यास करनेवाली वा (द्विपदी) दो वेद जिसने अभ्यास किये वा (चतुष्पदी) चार वेदों की पढ़ानेवाली वा (अष्टापदी) चार वेद और चार उपवेदों की विद्या से युक्ता वा (नवपदी) चार वेद, चार उपवेद और व्याकरणादि शिक्षायुक्त..

.. (बभूवुषी) अतिशय करके विद्याओं में प्रसिद्ध होती और (सहस्राक्षरा) असंख्यात अक्षरोंवाली होती हुई (परमे) सबसे उत्तम (व्योमन्) आकाश के समान व्याप्त निश्चल परमात्मा के निमित्त प्रयत्न करती है और (गौरीः) गौरवर्णयुक्त विदुषी स्त्रियों को (मिमाय) शब्द कराती अर्थात्..

.. (सलिलानि) जल के समान निर्मल वचनों को (तक्षती) छाँटती अर्थात् अविद्यादि दोषों से अलग करती हुई (सा) वह संसार के लिये अत्यन्त सुख करनेवाली होती है ॥ ४१ ॥

Thread .... 👇👇👇

"The leaked email communication from an executive of #Stratfor says that, as Deputy National Security Advisor in 2010 to #Obama, #Brennan and the White House were determined to:

'go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda.'"
#NoCPTPP

"#Stratfor has been dubbed the 'Shadow

"In an email written by #Stratfor President #FredBurton to work colleagues, Burton wrote on November 21, 2010:

'#Brennan is behind the #witchhunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway

"[#JohnBrennan] Was to Be Subject of Exposé by Rolling Stone Reporter #MichaelHastings Before Hastings Mysteriously Killed in

"Speculation became rampant that the #CIA had something to do with [#MichaelHastings’]

Neptune