Archive: Productivity category
Time management is hard. And I'm now starting to accept that I'm not really all that good at it. My inbox is perpetually chock-full (more than usual, too -- 252 emails at the moment, all needing to be replied to), and while I do get a decent amount ...
A couple days ago I came across Merlin Mann's Making Time to Make series, and in reading through it I realized why I don't hang out.
Actually, that's not entirely true. I do hang out, but only occasionally, and as the exception and not the rule. For the ...
From Evan Williams' blog I came across Twitter in Plain English by Common Craft. It's only two and a half minutes and gives a great explanation of what Twitter is:
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It's been a while since I blogged about what I've been reading, so it's time for an update.
From that list, Brothers Karamazov has sort of fallen by the wayside, and I need to pick it up again. (Especially because I'm right at the beginning of the Grand Inquisitor ...
Since it's just over halfway through the year, I figured I'd check in on my New Year's resolutions for 2008 and see how I'm doing:
1. I've read 19 books so far this year. Yeah, Houston, I'm in trouble. Considering how things are going I'm not sure if ...
Are we developing ADD as a society? I came across two interesting articles on similar themes, one from the Baltimore Sun titled Plugged in, zoned out, and the other from the Atlantic Monthly titled Is Google Making Us Stupid?. From the first:
When River Hill High School ...
Being somewhat obsessed with productivity, I've long been in search of the perfect to-do list killer app. For almost a decade I've jotted down to-do items on sticky notes and index cards, later transferring them to more long-term storage. I first used text files (back when I ran ...
Cool new web-based Powerpoint clone called 280 Slides:
Chris at Wait till I come! mentions this about it:
The most amazing thing about this is happening under the hood: the developer wrote a library that abstracts browser rendering engines using Canvas, ...
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor. It's true. The past few days I've been running on empty and it's taking its toll. (Luckily it's the exception rather than the rule.) Anyway, I submitted three short plays last night to the next New Play ...
Paul Graham's got an essay on procrastination and distraction that hit home for me:
So one way to beat procrastination is to starve it of distractions. But that's not as straightforward as it sounds, because there are people working hard to distract you. Distraction is not a static obstacle that ...
