Productivity

Time to Reflect. You’re soaking in it.

April 1, 2010

In today’s information overloaded, fast paced, digital lifestyle there can be little opportunity to pause and reflect. The mindset of “just have to keep up” can dominate one’s thinking if your are not careful. Every once and a while I get present to the fact that I spend too little time “reflecting” on things be [...]

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What are you waiting for? Publish!

January 20, 2010

I’ve been meaning to publish a post like this for a while. The irony of that combined with the topic is not lost on me and I find quite priceless. Have a look+listen and let me know what you think in the comments below. Do you publish? or Do you wait?

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Taking Breaks Big And Small

January 15, 2008

Something I am not good at is taking a break from work. Any type of break–5 minutes or 5 days. On a daily basis I find myself sitting at the machine for 3 hours at a stretch without getting out of the chair. Obviously this is not good. I did get a pedometer over the [...]

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Overwhelmed? Me too.

November 12, 2007

Meetings, email, projects, laundry, dinner, kids, cell phone ringing! Don’t pull the alarm yet. They all demand your time and attention many at the same time as each other. No wonder our sleep-deprived lives are fueled by a steady diet of caffeine all the while stumbling around dazed and confused. I recently read an article [...]

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Flowing Not Fighting

October 24, 2007

I often wonder how the hell am I ever going to reach the promised land? I read many blogs on productivity and life-hacks and wonder when it will happen. When will I ever get all my crap together and sit cross-legged floating 3 inches off the ground while scanning to-do lists, doing, deferring, and delegating [...]

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Plate Spinner

October 12, 2007

This is a place I have found myself on more than one occasion. Being a husband, father (of 3, ages 7 and under), and owner of a small business I have on more than one occasion found myself unable to keep up on all fronts à la the ‘plate spinner.’ You know you’ve seen what [...]

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Over-thinking to Non-thinking

September 25, 2007

I was thinking about the post from yesterday (talk about irony). It would be interesting if we could somehow measure the speed at which we think—a speedometer to thought. Perhaps this exists in the world of neuroscience and I’ll admit I’m too tired from thinking to go and do the research on this. This speedometer [...]

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Over-thinking it

September 24, 2007

What a revelation I had this morning while IM’ing with my friend and collaborator Jonathan Brown. I was asking him a programming question in relation to a project I am working on. After I asked a very detailed question, he shoots back “you’re over-thinking it.” In that moment came a flood of clarity. I am [...]

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