deuxlits

so i read this post on lifehack about granularity as a strategy for organization and work and was struck by it just sounded a new term for good planning and organization skills.  over time, as i’ve grown through my career, having to take charge of more responsibilities and even having to boss people around, the particular skill of being able to look ahead at the top of hill and break things down into manageable chunks is a real necessity. this kind of granularity as they describe it sounds very “managerial-ese” in some respects…can any MBAers out there tell me if there is unit in your project management class on modularity or granularity?

anyhow, so i think it’s pretty naive to think that one can just bulldoze and muscle their way through any given task. but what’s interesting in this post is how organizational skills are cast specifically in terms of granularity which just seems kind of odd to me. i think concepts of modularity are pretty key in the digital landscape and i have previously argued on several occasions that modularity is one of the new defining characteristics of today’s information culture, however this post made me rethink this postion.  modularity, bricolage, “mash-up”, re-mix, collage — all of these terms suggest the same notion, however is there thing different between the analogue and the digital versions? and what about cultural recyling then? how relevant is this concept?