> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.improvesomething.today/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Our favorites, so far
- URL: https://www.improvesomething.today/our-favorites/
- Published: 2026-05-29T06:01:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-05T19:01:49.000Z
- Description: Now that Improve Something Today is a decade old, here are some of your favorite—and my favorite—of the things I’ve offered to date.
- Author: Brian Kerr
- Tags: Learning

## Reader favorites

Based on the extremely limited data I get and the emails I receive, the most enduringly popular posts here are the procedural items or how-tos. For me, these are marked by the [curse of knowledge](https://www.improvesomething.today/10-things-for-10-years/#thing-no-0002-learning-in-public-%C2%A7-sharing-what-i%E2%80%99m-bored-of): I forget that they’re useful to people, even as I refer to them or use them myself. 

[Premortem: before starting a new project, learn why it will end in failureA simple method for uncovering big, ‘undiscussable’ risks to a project.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_3978-1-beac8f940f2cddc79c9b3e3eca7b4142de9b48cb81124d0338f982208f77c32e.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/premortem-learn-how-a-project-failed-before-it-starts/)

[3-step method for learning anythingSee one, do one, teach one ← That’s the method.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/size/w1200/2026/01/IMG_4361.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/three-step-method-for-learning-anything/)

[4 favorite Liberating Structures for continuous improvementGetting specific about facilitation methods & how to incorporate them into the work.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_0919-867753d8c90187ba36cd61111609b97bb9c555b0fae230c8fd04fe1ca4c4b329.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/four-liberating-structures-continuous-improvement-lean/)

## My favorite posts

I can tell you my favorite things to share are those where I’ve gone into some asinine rabbit hole.

[Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the seaMaking sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_4289-a7d365ab6dfc5875acf27d5344d095f4f165a95d79211f0d8738e859ffdf150f.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/vanishing-fish-boiling-frogs-the-dry-bed-of-the-sea/)

[On doing more with lessMore what? Less what? 90 years ago, Bucky Fuller gave his answer. There is a different one now.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_0863-2b23715aace71c0f547f261da1f2c6e7b6db7da417b9ecef302ea3864e796571.JPG)](https://www.improvesomething.today/on-doing-more-with-less/)

[On ‘undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worseRevisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/size/w1200/2025/10/IMG_4118.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/undiscussables-2025/)

(I guess I also denote these with a photo of a sunset over the sound. My favorite view for my favorite topics?)

## My favorite page

[Quote barnRemember when we could make web pages about topics we liked or collecting material we found interesting? Welcome to the quote barn: a tossed-off joke realized. It is a web page with a barn full of quotations.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr![](https://www.improvesomething.today/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_1907-1-3b103fb3c457d4796fa18128113cd26f9f7b95f6420533a59c6133b28f2e46b6.jpeg)](https://www.improvesomething.today/quote-barn/)

## My favorite reader

is you.