(2003-11-29) Loose Ends And Action

Lilia Efimova on the Loose End-s exposed by writing a WebLog. Once ideas are written down I have a visible trace of things I forgot to do and it pains to look back and to see them waiting for me to come back and to work them out. Denham Grey suggests that Wiki allows revisiting and refining old bits more easily, which I agree with. Ton Zijlstra notes the need for a MADA process of defining Actionable items. The problem I think is that for both those steps, digesting the results of exploration, and making actionable sense of them, we should bring our co-discoverers, i.e. the bloggers, along for the ride, but by and large still fail to do so. We together came up with the idea, so why should we not together turn it into action? Current reality is that we try to feed the ideas into our regular workflow, and try to bring our colleagues into it. Most of our organisations however will not yet be layed out for the types of things we come up with here. So, why not form ad-hoc (virtual) organisations, and create our own value adding networks? Bloggers together putting in proposals for conferences, defining projects etc.