HARD DISK CRASH

What's in a hard-disk? I thought I knew, but this weekend's crash of the hard disk of my beloved MacAir has taught me that I didn't. A hard disk holds much of the functionality, structure and style of work. I know that now. Having to re-generate functionality, structure and style of one's working life is a sad good bye to habits, and a hesitating, dounting hello to a new, and hopefully more secure, way of working. A wonderful new beginning - No! well, maybe. Great if your computer developes into a functional organ of your workings, but if the organ stops functioning, you feel like organ failure also in a physical sense. Do I have a memory outside that of my computer? The good news is Yes! I do remember my husbond, children, grandchildren and friends - but I have difficult staying in contact - as for now I still need to get scype up running again - anyways: I am grateful for the support from the IT-guys at work and at home, and for almost being computerized again

TIME, TASK AND TERRITORY - the road to liberty at work

Last week I experienced a connection between the Tavistock idea of crucial boundaries of working: time, task, and territory http://akriceinstitute.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=34, and I saw a relationship between the Tavistock principles for group work, and the principles of agile software development, most celebrated today. In both cases the idea is that the freedom to work dynamically and situated, 'the journey is the destination', and what have we, depend on a clear and definitive time frame, explicit definition of goals to be achieved, and a limitid space to work within. In agile development such moments are called sprints. Working this way - this is my experience and new insight - gives so much piece of mind, that ideas and good spirit in collaboration seems to foster itself.