Tempo Blog

Posts from the Tempo book blog, originally published on a companion site to Venkat's book Tempo (2011), later incorporated into Ribbonfarm.

1. Part 1 The Tempo Road Trip 2011-04-21
2. Part 2 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2011-05-02
3. Part 3 A Moment of Silence with John Boyd 2011-05-03
4. Part 4 The Tempo of Food 2011-05-03
5. Part 5 Island Time vs. Mainland Time 2011-05-03
6. Part 6 An Evening of Pace, Pace, Lead with Chuck 2011-05-04
7. Part 7 Haircuts and the Guy Clock 2011-05-04
8. Part 8 The One Way of the Beginner 2011-05-04
9. Part 9 Why Some Drives are Fun 2011-05-05
10. Part 10 Talking Temporal Illegibility in Montreal 2011-05-07
11. Part 11 Peak Oil and the Tempo of the Earth 2011-05-08
12. Part 12 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker 2011-05-08
13. Part 13 Time Travel for Ghosts 2011-05-09
14. Part 14 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans 2011-05-09
15. Part 15 The Car/Truck Ratio 2011-05-11
16. Part 16 Freytag Staircases in Nashville 2011-05-12
17. Part 17 Functional Fixedness and Kata Learning 2011-05-12
18. Part 18 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey 2011-05-14
19. Part 19 On Ritual Time 2011-05-15
20. Part 20 Strategies, Counter-examples and the UnAha! Experience 2011-05-16
21. Part 21 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone 2011-05-16
22. Part 22 Lame name: Belmont, CA 2011-05-16
23. Part 23 Rabble Rouser: Seattle WA 2011-05-16
24. Part 24 The Memphis Drum Shop 2011-05-16
25. Part 25 Startup Deathwatch in Memphis 2011-05-16
26. Part 26 Mississippi Flooding 2011-05-17
27. Part 27 The Best Chips in the World 2011-05-17
28. Part 28 On Rest Stops 2.0 2011-05-17
29. Part 29 Smalltalk with Gary and Harpreet 2011-05-18
30. Part 30 How Clock Time Replaced Narrative Time 2011-05-18
31. Part 31 \"Ready, Fire, Aim,\" with Wild Bill 2011-05-20
32. Part 32 My Competition? 2011-05-20
33. Part 33 Timepass and Boredom 2011-05-21
34. Part 34 IARPA Starts Metaphor-Based Decision-Making Research 2011-05-24
35. Part 35 Dulce Domum 2011-05-24
36. Part 36 Review at Zenpundit.com 2011-05-31
37. Part 37 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives 2011-06-03
38. Part 38 Bardic Mystique: Maastricht, Netherlands 2011-06-06
39. Part 39 Kindle Edition Status, Glossary, Global Availability, Road Trip Contd. 2011-06-24
40. Part 40 H.M.S. Cock-Robin, Cambridge, UK 2011-06-29
41. Part 41 Never Stop Marketing, Silver Spring, MD 2011-06-29
42. Part 42 The End of the Parade 2011-07-07
43. Part 43 Storytelling for Problem-Solving 2011-07-13
44. Part 44 Tempo and OODA: The Backstory 2011-07-22
45. Part 45 Chet Richards' Review of Tempo on Fabius Maximus 2011-07-24
46. Part 46 A Proposed Grand Narrative for the History of Debt 2011-08-10
47. Part 47 Daemons and the Mindful Learning Curve 2011-08-17
48. Part 48 New Research on Decision Fatigue 2011-08-24
49. Part 49 Bandwagon Timing verus Biding Your Time 2011-08-31
50. Part 50 Tempo goes to Burning Man 2011-09-07
51. Part 51 Forgivable Sloppiness: The Art of Epoch-Driven Time Management 2011-09-22
52. Part 52 Mental Models and Archetypes Explained 2011-10-03
53. Part 53 Tempo Review on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow 2011-10-13
54. Part 54 Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect 2011-10-25
55. Part 55 A Pilgrimage through Stagnation and Acceleration 2011-11-02
56. Part 56 Quandary: Seattle WA 2011-11-07
57. Part 57 Ancora Imparo: Warsaw, Poland. 2011-11-07
58. Part 58 Tempo Now Available on Kindle 2011-11-21
59. Part 59 The Pomodoro Technique 2011-11-29
60. Part 60 Tempo now available on the Nook 2011-12-02
61. Part 61 What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 2011-12-07
62. Part 62 Tempo: Year One 2011-12-22
63. Part 63 Squeakastination: The Opposite of Procrastination 2012-01-04
64. Part 64 Steer, Ready, Fire 2012-01-19
65. Part 65 Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch? 2012-01-28
66. Part 66 The Tempo Glossary 2012-02-08
67. Part 67 Motifs, Mascots and Muses at Refactor Camp, 2012 2012-02-13
68. Part 68 Live Life, Not Projects 2012-02-20
69. Part 69 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life 2012-03-01
70. Part 70 Routine, but Cannot be Automated 2012-03-09
71. Part 71 The Fundamentals of Calendar Hacking 2012-03-19
72. Part 72 The Tempo of Code 2012-03-26
73. Part 73 Trigger Narratives and the Nuclear Option 2012-04-10
74. Part 74 Hacking Grand Narratives 2012-04-16
75. Part 75 Thinking in a Foreign Language 2012-04-26
76. Part 76 The 6-Hour Maker-Manager Work Day 2012-04-30
77. Part 77 Creative Desks versus Administration Desks 2012-05-07
78. Part 78 How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov 2012-05-14
79. Part 79 The Daily Ugly 2012-05-21
80. Part 80 Forged Groups 2012-05-28
81. Part 81 Time Lensing 2012-06-04
82. Part 82 Appreciative versus Manipulative Mental Models 2012-06-11
83. Part 83 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap 2012-06-18
84. Part 84 Fertile Variables and Rich Moves 2012-06-25
85. Part 85 Not Important, Not Urgent 2012-07-02
86. Part 86 Stress Failures versus Decay Failures 2012-07-09
87. Part 87 Positioning Moves versus Melee Moves 2012-07-16
88. Part 88 Literary Darwinism 2012-07-30
89. Part 89 Breakout Moves and Exponential Outcomes 2012-08-13
90. Part 90 Demystification versus Understanding 2012-09-17
91. Part 91 Annealing the Tactical Pattern Stack 2012-10-02
92. Part 92 The Examined Life 2012-10-29
93. Part 93 Jason Ho on Cultivating a Jiu-Jitsu Mindset 2012-11-14
94. Part 94 Should You Count Near-Misses as Successes or Failures? 2012-12-08
95. Part 95 Roundup of 2012 Tempoblog Posts 2012-12-30
96. Part 96 Data is Eating Clocks 2013-01-17
97. Part 97 Resilient Like a Fox 2013-02-13
98. Part 98 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox 2013-02-19
99. Part 99 The National Day of Unplugging 2013-02-28
100. Part 100 Tempo Interview on 'Smart People Podcast' 2013-03-11
101. Part 101 How Many Steps Do You Really Look Ahead? 2013-03-18
102. Part 102 Allowing Personality to Flow 2013-03-26
103. Part 103 Why Habit Formation is Hard 2013-04-01
104. Part 104 Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight 2013-04-08
105. Part 105 Sensitive Dependence on Paperwork Conditions 2013-04-29
106. Part 106 Deliberate Practice versus Immersion 2013-05-14
107. Part 107 Schleps, Puzzles, and Packages: Solving Complex Problems the Iron Man Way 2013-05-21
108. Part 108 Extrovert-Introvert Fog 2013-06-17
109. Part 109 Lagrangian and Eulerian Decision-Making 2013-06-24
110. Part 110 Coincidences and Correlations 2013-07-01
111. Part 111 Inside the Miscellaneous Folder 2013-07-23
112. Part 112 Personality Ambidexterity: Or How to Turn Yourself Inside-Out 2013-08-11
113. Part 113 On Thinking Caps 2013-08-26
114. Part 114 Frictional and Structural Unknowns 2013-10-18
115. Part 115 Is Decision-Making Skill Trainable? 2013-11-11
116. Part 116 The Three Clocks of Trial and Error 2013-12-09
117. Part 117 Maintenance Thinking 2013-12-16
118. Part 118 New Year's Resolutions as Self-Directed Camp 2013-12-30
119. Part 119 When Finishing is Easier than Starting 2014-01-13
120. Part 120 Discovery-Heavy Projects 2014-01-27
121. Part 121 Running Lean, Running Fat 2014-02-10
122. Part 122 Packaging-Heavy Projects 2014-02-24
123. Part 123 Reboot Travel vs. Pause Travel 2014-03-10
124. Part 124 Two Examples of Narrative Time 2014-05-10
125. Part 125 Frustration Effects and Curse of Optimality 2014-05-19
126. Part 126 The Rumsfeld Behavioral Landscape 2014-06-05
127. Part 127 Everyone is Special 2014-06-12
128. Part 128 Time, Money and Bandwidth 2014-06-16
129. Part 129 Language and Strategy 2014-06-25
130. Part 130 Effort Shock and Reward Shock 2014-07-09
131. Part 131 How Different Cultures Understand Time 2014-07-17
132. Part 132 The Four Seasons of Lifehacking 2014-08-05
133. Part 133 Why Sleeping-In Makes You More Tired 2014-08-27
134. Part 134 When is a Year not a Year? 2014-09-02
135. Part 135 I Will Not Rest Until... 2014-10-12
136. Part 136 When Monitoring a Behavior Makes it Worse 2014-11-16
137. Part 137 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts 2015-02-24