Stowe Boyd on Obsidian and Taskidian, learning loops, work management, and sedimentary thinking (Ep38)

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Stowe Boyd on Obsidian and Taskidian, learning loops, work management, and sedimentary thinking (Ep38)

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Stowe Boyd has been studying work and the tools we use to adapt to the future for the past three decades. Stowe coined the terms ‘hashtag’, ‘work management’, ‘social tools’, and ‘spreadbase’.

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